New Beer Cellar

Question 1) Have you drank them before?
Question 2) Why do you want to cellar them
Question 3) What are you hoping to accomplish by cellaring them?

Cheers!

 

First off, WTF is up with your formatting?

Second, very few beers actually improve with age, and which ones do is largely subjective. There's not much point in aging something you haven't tried, as you have no baseline to compare to.

 

I've got a friend who will admit they have wasted a lot of good beer by letting it age past its prime. Cellaring can be a double edged sword. Sure it's fun when it all works out, but damn it when you let a few 20$ bottles waste away to the point they are not palatable any longer.

I'd start with a 1 year max, see what type of results you get, and then experiment with new beers for longer periods.

 

Where's all your Pliny?

 

Great start to a cellar.

Unibroue 17 Grande Réserve - BSA, should do fine with some time on it, Unibroue actually brought it back so consumers could age some
Allagash Curieux (Bourbon Barrel-Aged Tripel) - not recommended by Allagash for aging (technically they only recommend the Interlude for aging), but it's still a great beer with a couple years under its belt
Dark Force Reserva - no idea
Trappistes Rochefort 8 - you can easily get more than a couple years out of this one
Trappistes Rochefort 10 - you can get upwards of a decade or more out of the 10 if stored properly...really wish they'd put this one in a magnum instead of the 8...
Orval Trappist Ale - best fresh, and with no more than a year or two...goes downhill after that
AleSmith Grand Cru Ale - have had it with 3 years on it, was solid, no direct knowledge beyond that
Panil Barriquée - opened a 2005 in the last 6 months or so, was delicious
Cuvee De Tomme - still sitting on my 2009, but other reports are favorable
Achel Trappist Extra - no idea, never aged any

Some things you might want to consider given your selection above:

Struise Pannepot
De Dolle Stille Nacht & Oerbier Reserva
Chimay Grande Reserve
Allagash Interlude
BFM Abbaye de Saint Bon-Chien
Rodenbach Vintage 2007 or 2008
Southampton Grand Cru

 

Pics love seeing cellar pics

 

* I have to disagree with you about Orval. It certainly can go according to my tastes.

Re to the same beer to the OP...whatever you do, when you decide to drink it, refrigerate it for a day. At cellar temps. it's a huge gusher.

 

I recently had a bottle from 2002 and 2007, neither was, in my opinion, as good as a fresher bottle. To each his/her own though.

 

This may help.
Most cellar worthy beers, according to some feedback I received in cellaring threads:

(# of BA's that experienced positive cellaring w/particular beer) name of beer

(17) Goose Island BCBS​

(17) North Coast Old Stock​

(15) Sierra Nevada Bigfoot​

(13) Stone IRS​

(12) Bell's Expedition​

(11) Deschutes Abyss​

(10) Rochefort 10​

(10) Bell's Third Coast​

(9) Brooklyn Monster​

(9) Founders Imperial Stout​

(8) Brooklyn Black Chocolate​

(8) Cuvee van de Keizer Blauw​

(7) Hair of the Dog Adam​

 

nicht schlecht ​

 

Age the Trappist bottles for 1-2 years. Drink the rest now.

 

No they don't. I don't think anyone recommends storing capped beers sideways, and for the durations you're talking about it doesn't matter for corked beers either.

 

Why is every beer you have in your cellar a Belgian??? Expand beyond that as a start. That's my two cents

 

Why would anybody cellar anything that isn't a belgian style? That's my 2 cents.

 

While most of the beers in my cellar are of the Belgian variety, a well aged English or American barleywine can sometimes be hard to top, my .02.

Cheers!!!

 

You need some stouts.