Moving Beer Cellar Across Country

Some combination of drinking some, giving some away, and taking your favorites in the car somewhere - up under the dash, under the seats, or with the spare if you have to.

 

It's not much help to offer suggestions until we know what type of value we are dealing wit, as someone already mentioned.

Personally, any idea that I had for my own beer would depend completely on that. If I have 48 bottles of beer equivalent to OG Rare or 1 off Cantillon, that's a lot different than 48 random shelf beers that I chose to cellar.

It's not that it's not important, it is, but in one case you are looking at a collection that would cost many many many thousands of dollars to replace if something tragic happened, vs. another that you could probably get individuals in the cellar forum to easily help you replace.

Since you mentioned insurance, I'm leaning toward the former, but...

 

Sounds like the cans are not part of the valuable collection.

I'd follow suit with what others have said:

Ship the cans (60ish dollars max even for 48 cans). Put any of the rarest beers in your car. Ship the remaining for another 60ish dollars (for approx. 24 bottles)

 

We shipped ourselves some wine from California to Boston last winter. One box was shipped in styrofoam and another was shipped in "eco friendly" cardboard sleeves. The "eco" box arrived half frozen with all the corks popped out and the styro box was perfectly fine.

Freezing vs. not could in theory just be the difference of a few degrees which wouldn't help all that much on the hot end of the spectrum, but my guess is the insulation is actually fairly substantial (and some small gel packs could help too). You could grab six, twelve bottle boxes to throw in the moving truck for about $100 which should hold everything assuming you could stack 2 cans in the place of one bottle.

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Good luck whatever you do!

 

I'm doing the exact opposite move (L.A. to NY), this Monday, in fact, and I just drank down/gave away my stash over a few months. Unless you have seriously valuable bottles, it's not really worth the hassle to move them, IMO.

EDIT: Just saw your post about the bottles you have. Maybe ship the most valuable, then drink down the others?

 

Nah, you know my point was valid, if not a little crude. Beer collecting doesn't pay off. In the end much of that beer will be consumerd well below par.