Just started collecting/cellaring, suggestions please!

Step 1; Don't "lay it down".

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unless lambic.

Step 2; Patience.
Step 3; Share.

and holy crap drink your 1500 bottles of wine first.

 

Barleywines are best for aging.

 

Age beers with ABVs above 8%, some smoked beers with lower ABVs might age well.

 

Don't age Heady!

 

Just buy beer and drink it.. It's not worth hoarding it. Buy multiples of stuff you like, and share with friends and family. It can get out of hand just putting bottles away.

 

Bell's Expedition Stout. Will go for a decade easy, improving all the time. Go at least 2 years with it though.

 

You're going to want to drink most of your cellared bottles within a 1-5 year window. Remember that beers are perishable and don't handle age in exactly the same way as does wine. If you're able to buy multiple bottles of the same beer it's not a bad idea to open one periodically and see how they're doing. You'll soon be able to estimate how much age, if any, a beer needs by taste. Imperial, Stouts, Barleywines, and many sour beers are good candidates for aging.

 

Hey, nice to have a wine guy appreciate good beer also.

All good options you mentioned. I would add some Rochefort 10 if you've got it around for a quad option, and some gueuze would be nice too. Tilquin maybe? Hair of the Dog stuff really does neat things over time in my limited experience.

Couple corrections to some of the above though:

- ABV is one indicator but not the way to tell if a beer is suited for aging. 5% gueuzes can be sublime at 30 years.
- Beer is not perishable, though it is true that most won't age like wine would.

 

Stuff to cellar would be big stouts, barleywines / wheatwines, sours and dubbles or quads (tripels don't age as gracefully, IMHO)
Anything that is hop-forward you don't want to save (you've already said this)
Most of the time, I pick up 2 or 3 of the age-able beers, planning on drinking one soon, and putting the others away.
This doesn't always work, and sometimes they all get put away, and others all get consumed quickly.
A wine cellar is a perfect environment for aging beer as well, with the right combination of temperature and conditions.
I would love a tour though those 1500 wines, too...

 

One super easy and great cellar beer is the annual stone russian imperial stout out right now. Barleywines are probably what created the cellaring trend, and don't neglect easy to find quads like three philosophers from ommnegang which does great in a cellar.

 

Wow that's a lot of wine! I tend to keep beers over 12% longer then beers under, but really imo even then the beer may not work for aging long periods. Some beers that really get good from aging is hair of the dog stuff.