The Beer Cellar Update

Back in February, I posted the contents of my beer cellar. At the time, it was actually quite an impressive list of beers, but while I have been toying with the concept of aging beer, I have to admit that most of my cellar was more or less unintentionally curated.

What can I say? My eyes are bigger than my liver. In terms of beer quantity, I don’t actually drink that much. Or at least, I shouldn’t drink that much! So my cellar kept growing, and when you’ve got a whole lot of monster barleywines and imperial stouts, it’s difficult to drink your way through them (this is not a complaint, in case you were wondering). The end result of this is that my beer runs have been much more limited in 2012, and I’ve slowed down my homebrewing activities as well. At a certain point, having too much beer in the house becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Hmmm, I have 7 cases of beer laying around, I should really drink some of this stuff!

So I’m happy to report that I’ve made great strides in drinking down the cellar, to the point where I only have a few massive face-melters waiting in the wings for immediate consumption (while the rest are meant for aging). For the most part, you’ve seen reviews of the beers I drank, though there are 4 or 5 reviews still in the pipeline.

Because I know you’re all dying to know what’s left (and what’s been added since last time), here’s a list of the current cellar:

Um, ok, so that’s still a lot of beer, but I checked 18 beers off the list since last time (and, um, only added 6 new ones), which I consider to be a big win. And the majority of the above are beers I actually intend to age, instead of beers I’m accidentally aging. Of course, I’m not listing some of the stuff I have laying around, such as all that homebrew or some of the Founders standbys hanging out in my fridge for regular consumption. Things will probably slow down over the summer. I don’t find it likely that I’ll be cracking open bourbon barrel stouts that frequently during the summer, but I guess you never know!

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