Pleasant aging experiences

Discussion in 'Cellaring / Aging Beer' started by jpro, Mar 6, 2012.

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  1. jpro

    jpro Initiate (0) Jun 3, 2009 Colorado

    I haven't got too into aging beers, but every once in awhile I'll stow away a few barleywines or imperial stouts for a couple years. Tonight I had the pleasure of cracking open a Bell's Third Coast from 2010... Wow - pretty sublime stuff. Anyway - I was wondering if anyone else was really surprised by a brew with some age on it. It'd be cool to hear some other stories.

    PS - Two year old Stone IRS is pretty good, too... But Third Coast takes the cake for me.
     
    #1 jpro, Mar 6, 2012
  2. allforbetterbeer

    allforbetterbeer Savant (1,236) Sep 26, 2009 Colorado

    I have had very pleasing results with Great Divide hibernation. It is wonderful fresh, and morphs into very tasty (but different) beer after a few years. I wasn't sure what would happen to this beer because it already has some of the characteristics of aged beer in its flavor when released. I thought it might be "peaked" at release and just go downhill (the brewers do specifically age it before release and I think they know what they are doing), but to my surprise it seems to have a long road of good flavor ahead of it after it is released to the public.
     
    #2 allforbetterbeer, Mar 6, 2012
  3. yamar68

    yamar68 Initiate (0) Apr 1, 2011 Minnesota

    I was pleasantly surprised by a 2006 Sierra Nevada Celebration last night.
     
    #3 yamar68, Mar 6, 2012
  4. PGHbeer77

    PGHbeer77 Initiate (0) Jan 16, 2012 Pennsylvania

    March Cellar Reviews
     
    #4 PGHbeer77, Mar 6, 2012
  5. EricCioe

    EricCioe Initiate (0) Aug 7, 2010 Montana

    Bell's has two of the more cellarable beers I know of in Expedition and Third Coast. The 12 oz format makes it easy to buy many of them, they age really well, and they're inexpensive enough to get many of them.
     
    #5 EricCioe, Mar 7, 2012
  6. jpro

    jpro Initiate (0) Jun 3, 2009 Colorado

    Good call!
     
    #6 jpro, Mar 7, 2012
  7. Pahn

    Pahn Initiate (0) Dec 2, 2009 New York

    sierra nevada bigfoot
    dogfish head olde school
    bruery saison rue

    are the first ones that jump to mind. cuvee van de keizer blauw definitely up there. stone IRS always worthwhile. offhand those are the major wows i can think of, but i also have a terrible memory.
     
    #7 Pahn, Mar 7, 2012
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