ruination 10th Columbus Ohio

Thanks for the looking out I have to get another Bottle

Will this be OK to age I want to start a dmall collection of beers for special occasions...

 

I was just thinking it would be good to lay down for a while because of its high abv... it would also be really cool to add to the stone imperial Russian stout and old guardian I got to save

 

How long? A month? Don't age IPAs or DIPAs unless you want to see them reach barley wine status.

 

my buddy and I are rrally starting to like barelywines so i think ill hold on to a couple bottles to get a nice character like old guardian and the flying moflan

 

I wouldn't think regular Ruination would age well at all, but being much higher in ABV, the 10th anniversary might be worth a shot. Last year, I aged a Hopslam for 6 months, it really hurt the beer. I would think this Ruination Tenth would be similar. You definitely won't end up with a Flying Mouflan or Old Guardian.

 

That said, those beers are brewed to be barleywines. It isn't realistic to think an aged DIPA is going to make a good or decent barleywine.

 

How are you supposed to know which dipa's will age into something as good as OG? Im a bit lost here since you first said they could reach barelywine status but now you say its unrealistic to think that they will???

 

They can reach barley wine status, yes, but I Never said that it would be a good barley wine.

 

how much are these running a bottle in the area?

 

If you want to end up with an aged barleywine, start with a barleywine. I disagree that aging DIPAs is a good idea. If you really want to do it, you should age one bottle for a year and see if you like it. This way you don't waste good money or good beer experimenting if you don't like it. If you like it, you can start aging DIPAs to your hearts content next year.

 

I'm pretty sure I paid right around 7 if I remember right.

 

$7.99 everywhere I've seen it in Columbus.