List the beers in your fridge.

[bnw]

Looks like I have 18:

Stag
Yuengling Black and Tan
Kraftig Light
O'Fallon STL RED
Urban Chestnut Zwickel Lager
Griesedieck Bros. Pils
Waikato Draught
Pilsner Urquell
Falls City Calliope
Falls City Hipster Repellant IPA
Boulevard Imperial Pilsner
Anchor Go West! IPA
Corona light
Falls City English Style Pale Ale
Yuengling IPL
Scrimshaw
Michelob Lager
Konig Pilsener

 

[Loyal]

*Looks like we're partying with a tatted baby in tennessee....

 

[DCH]

From memory, what's in there right now:
Kitchen fridge:
4x Lawson's Sip of Sunshine IPA
4x Evil Genius Ma the Meatloaf Witbier with Mango

Garage fridge (some of this generously provided by @Dieter the Brock):
1x Jester King SPON with Blueberry and Pitaya
1x Jester King SPON with Albarino and Blanc du Bois
1 each of the 2016 Firestone Walker boxed beers, except Parabola, which I drank already, so...
Stickee Monkee, Velvet Merkin, Helldorado, XX, Sucaba
1x Firestone Walker Bravo
1x Firestone Walker Stickee Monkee (2017)
1x Firestone Walker Parabola (2017)
3x Last Stand Coffee Porter
8x Trillium Galaxy Cutting Tiles
2x Trillium Farnsworth St. IPA
A handful of this year's Founder's Kentucky Breakfast Stout
A couple of Weyerbacher Sunday Morning Stouts
2x Weyerbacher Finally Legal
1x Von Trapp Pilsner
3 years worth of Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPAs (all aging nicely)
2 years' releases of Mott the Lesser (a local BA imperial stout)
Bourbon County Brand Stout from 2014, 2015 and 2016
Bourbon County Brand Barleywine from 2016
Grimm Raspberry Pop!
Trillium Peach Soak
Trillium Raspberry Soak
Another Trillium sour, I don't remember which
One bottle of Perennial Abraxas
One bottle of Side Project Pulling Nails #6
Two bottles of Clown Shoes Breakfast Exorcism
1x Omnipollo Yellow Belly
1x Omnipollo BA Yellow Belly
1x Oskar Blues Barrel-Aged Ten Fidy
A couple Founders Backwoods Bastards
A couple Lagunitas High-Westifieds
1x Alchemist Pappy's Porter

This is what my garage fridge looks like (the pic is a few months old, so things have cycled in and out):

(The bottom left section under the shelves is where I keep my beers for aging/cellaring)

I like beer.

 

[FaulkSF]

I'd actually suggest only storing IPAs, lagers, and pilsners in the fridge. Everything else will age better at room or just below (cellar temp).

I only have a couple IPAs in the fridge, and an abbey ale aged on rose' and oak, and a quad aged on oak, rum and John Canary melon in kegs.

I kind of like beer as well.

 

[DCH]

I'd actually suggest only storing IPAs, lagers, and pilsners in the fridge. Everything else will age better at room or just below (cellar temp).

I only have a couple IPAs in the fridge, and an abbey ale aged on rose' and oak, and a quad aged on oak, rum and John Canary melon in kegs.

I kind of like beer as well.

I'm paranoid about sunlight getting to my cellared stuff. But the garage fridge is hooked into a temperature controller that keeps it at cellaring temperatures (about 53). If my house had a basement I'd probably find a dark corner there for the aging, but I'm on a slab, so the garage has to do.

Beer is great.

 

[bnw]

From memory, what's in there right now:
Kitchen fridge:
4x Lawson's Sip of Sunshine IPA
4x Evil Genius Ma the Meatloaf Witbier with Mango

Garage fridge (some of this generously provided by @Dieter the Brock):
1x Jester King SPON with Blueberry and Pitaya
1x Jester King SPON with Albarino and Blanc du Bois
1 each of the 2016 Firestone Walker boxed beers, except Parabola, which I drank already, so...
Stickee Monkee, Velvet Merkin, Helldorado, XX, Sucaba
1x Firestone Walker Bravo
1x Firestone Walker Stickee Monkee (2017)
1x Firestone Walker Parabola (2017)
3x Last Stand Coffee Porter
8x Trillium Galaxy Cutting Tiles
2x Trillium Farnsworth St. IPA
A handful of this year's Founder's Kentucky Breakfast Stout
A couple of Weyerbacher Sunday Morning Stouts
2x Weyerbacher Finally Legal
1x Von Trapp Pilsner
3 years worth of Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPAs (all aging nicely)
2 years' releases of Mott the Lesser (a local BA imperial stout)
Bourbon County Brand Stout from 2014, 2015 and 2016
Bourbon County Brand Barleywine from 2016
Grimm Raspberry Pop!
Trillium Peach Soak
Trillium Raspberry Soak
Another Trillium sour, I don't remember which
One bottle of Perennial Abraxas
One bottle of Side Project Pulling Nails #6
Two bottles of Clown Shoes Breakfast Exorcism
1x Omnipollo Yellow Belly
1x Omnipollo BA Yellow Belly
1x Oskar Blues Barrel-Aged Ten Fidy
A couple Founders Backwoods Bastards
A couple Lagunitas High-Westifieds
1x Alchemist Pappy's Porter

This is what my garage fridge looks like (the pic is a few months old, so things have cycled in and out):

(The bottom left section under the shelves is where I keep my beers for aging/cellaring)

I like beer.

That is outstanding but where's the Sam Adams?:rolllaugh:

 

[bnw]

I'd actually suggest only storing IPAs, lagers, and pilsners in the fridge. Everything else will age better at room or just below (cellar temp).

I only have a couple IPAs in the fridge, and an abbey ale aged on rose' and oak, and a quad aged on oak, rum and John Canary melon in kegs.

I kind of like beer as well.

I didn't know beer could be aged past its bottling......as in being a desirable thing to do. Last year I tried a 40 year old Falstaff and it wasn't good.

 

[DCH]

I didn't know beer could be aged past its bottling......as in being a desirable thing to do. Last year I tried a 40 year old Falstaff and it wasn't good.

Generally the higher the alcohol content the better a beer ages. Hops fall off, coffee fades but the alcohol heat declines and the beer gets more complex. Barrel aged stouts and barleywine styles are great for aging.

And Sam Adams is fine but I don't generally go for them, better local options.

 

[bnw]

Generally the higher the alcohol content the better a beer ages. Hops fall off, coffee fades but the alcohol heat declines and the beer gets more complex. Barrel aged stouts and barleywine styles are great for aging.

And Sam Adams is fine but I don't generally go for them, better local options.

OK here's some dumb questions. How much "aging"? 3 months to a year? More? Is the beer aged in glass? Stainless steel? Wine being aged benefits greatly from the oxygen released from the cork over the first few years......how can beer age (get more complex) when the yeast is dead, the closures are air tight and non permeable and the carbonation drives off any oxygen before bottling?

 

[RhodyRams]

Bud Light

Narragansett

Mystic Bridge IPA

Grey Sail

Newport Storm

Sam Adams summer


double spaced so my list looks longer

oops..also have some Goslings Ginger beer for moscow mules

 

[Loyal]

From memory, what's in there right now:
Kitchen fridge:
4x Lawson's Sip of Sunshine IPA
4x Evil Genius Ma the Meatloaf Witbier with Mango

Garage fridge (some of this generously provided by @Dieter the Brock):
1x Jester King SPON with Blueberry and Pitaya
1x Jester King SPON with Albarino and Blanc du Bois
1 each of the 2016 Firestone Walker boxed beers, except Parabola, which I drank already, so...
Stickee Monkee, Velvet Merkin, Helldorado, XX, Sucaba
1x Firestone Walker Bravo
1x Firestone Walker Stickee Monkee (2017)
1x Firestone Walker Parabola (2017)
3x Last Stand Coffee Porter
8x Trillium Galaxy Cutting Tiles
2x Trillium Farnsworth St. IPA
A handful of this year's Founder's Kentucky Breakfast Stout
A couple of Weyerbacher Sunday Morning Stouts
2x Weyerbacher Finally Legal
1x Von Trapp Pilsner
3 years worth of Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPAs (all aging nicely)
2 years' releases of Mott the Lesser (a local BA imperial stout)
Bourbon County Brand Stout from 2014, 2015 and 2016
Bourbon County Brand Barleywine from 2016
Grimm Raspberry Pop!
Trillium Peach Soak
Trillium Raspberry Soak
Another Trillium sour, I don't remember which
One bottle of Perennial Abraxas
One bottle of Side Project Pulling Nails #6
Two bottles of Clown Shoes Breakfast Exorcism
1x Omnipollo Yellow Belly
1x Omnipollo BA Yellow Belly
1x Oskar Blues Barrel-Aged Ten Fidy
A couple Founders Backwoods Bastards
A couple Lagunitas High-Westifieds
1x Alchemist Pappy's Porter

This is what my garage fridge looks like (the pic is a few months old, so things have cycled in and out):

(The bottom left section under the shelves is where I keep my beers for aging/cellaring)

I like beer.

Where is the Keystone Light?

 

[RhodyRams]

From memory, what's in there right now:
Kitchen fridge:
4x Lawson's Sip of Sunshine IPA
4x Evil Genius Ma the Meatloaf Witbier with Mango

Garage fridge (some of this generously provided by @Dieter the Brock):
1x Jester King SPON with Blueberry and Pitaya
1x Jester King SPON with Albarino and Blanc du Bois
1 each of the 2016 Firestone Walker boxed beers, except Parabola, which I drank already, so...
Stickee Monkee, Velvet Merkin, Helldorado, XX, Sucaba
1x Firestone Walker Bravo
1x Firestone Walker Stickee Monkee (2017)
1x Firestone Walker Parabola (2017)
3x Last Stand Coffee Porter
8x Trillium Galaxy Cutting Tiles
2x Trillium Farnsworth St. IPA
A handful of this year's Founder's Kentucky Breakfast Stout
A couple of Weyerbacher Sunday Morning Stouts
2x Weyerbacher Finally Legal
1x Von Trapp Pilsner
3 years worth of Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPAs (all aging nicely)
2 years' releases of Mott the Lesser (a local BA imperial stout)
Bourbon County Brand Stout from 2014, 2015 and 2016
Bourbon County Brand Barleywine from 2016
Grimm Raspberry Pop!
Trillium Peach Soak
Trillium Raspberry Soak
Another Trillium sour, I don't remember which
One bottle of Perennial Abraxas
One bottle of Side Project Pulling Nails #6
Two bottles of Clown Shoes Breakfast Exorcism
1x Omnipollo Yellow Belly
1x Omnipollo BA Yellow Belly
1x Oskar Blues Barrel-Aged Ten Fidy
A couple Founders Backwoods Bastards
A couple Lagunitas High-Westifieds
1x Alchemist Pappy's Porter

This is what my garage fridge looks like (the pic is a few months old, so things have cycled in and out):

(The bottom left section under the shelves is where I keep my beers for aging/cellaring)

I like beer.

Wait..thats just from memory

 

[FaulkSF]

OK here's some dumb questions. How much "aging"? 3 months to a year? More? Is the beer aged in glass? Stainless steel? Wine being aged benefits greatly from the oxygen released from the cork over the first few years......how can beer age (get more complex) when the yeast is dead, the closures are air tight and non permeable and the carbonation drives off any oxygen before bottling?

Beer should be aged in the container it came in. I've heard people say you can't age growlers, but I've opened a few with a couple years on them and had good carbonation and age.

Aging depends on your preference. As DCH mentioned, complex beers like barrel aged stouts may go 10+ years before they fall off to a vinegar flavor. American sour beers are probably at their best within 3 years of bottling. Some people like their stouts and ales syrupy. Others like them with a bit of hop bite. There's no wrong answer, just personal preference.

Yeast is actually not dead. When you naturally carbonate a beer, the yeast eats the sugar after capping to create carbonation. The yeast may change or add subtle changes when aging, similar to, but not as prevalent in wines.

 

[DCH]

OK here's some dumb questions. How much "aging"? 3 months to a year? More? Is the beer aged in glass? Stainless steel? Wine being aged benefits greatly from the oxygen released from the cork over the first few years......how can beer age (get more complex) when the yeast is dead, the closures are air tight and non permeable and the carbonation drives off any oxygen before bottling?

You can age anywhere from a few months to several years, especially depending on the beer. At a certain point it can get all oxidized-tasting, but that's usually a decade or plus down the road. You'll find people opening and drinking ten-year-old Bourbon County Brand Stouts or DFH 120s semi-regularly, and vintage Belgian sours (Cantillon, Drie Fonteinen, etc.) can sell for ridiculous amounts of money.

The beer tends to be aged in its bottles/cans. I recommend BeerAdvocate as a great resource for more info than I know - https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/101/store/

One big thing to remember is never age IPAs - as they get older, the hop profile practically disappears and it just becomes a big malt bomb, usually pretty nasty because they're not brewed with aging in mind.

If you want to run a fun initial experiment, grab yourself something easily available, like a St. Bernardus 12 quadrupel ale and let it age in a dark closet in your basement for a year, then grab another off the shelf and compare the two. I have no idea the chemical processes that make aging work, but I know they're awesome.

 

[DCH]

Beer should be aged in the container it came in. I've heard people say you can't age growlers, but I've opened a few with a couple years on them and had good carbonation and age.

Aging depends on your preference. As DCH mentioned, complex beers like barrel aged stouts may go 10+ years before they fall off to a vinegar flavor. American sour beers are probably at their best within 3 years of bottling. Some people like their stouts and ales syrupy. Others like them with a bit of hop bite. There's no wrong answer, just personal preference.

Yeast is actually not dead. When you naturally carbonate a beer, the yeast eats the sugar after capping to create carbonation. The yeast may change or add subtle changes when aging, similar to, but not as prevalent in wines.

I think the problem with aging in growlers is that they're more prone to letting oxygen in which will nastify them right quick. They're well-sealed, but not as well as a bottle or can. Might be wrong, but I know my local IPAs don't hold up as long in growlers as they do in cans.

 

[DCH]

Where is the Keystone Light?

That's what comes out an hour or two after I drink one of the beers mentioned above.

 

[DCH]

Wait..thats just from memory

I may or may not have something of a problem. Or a hobby. Depends on who's asking.

 

[FaulkSF]

I think the problem with aging in growlers is that they're more prone to letting oxygen in which will nastify them right quick. They're well-sealed, but not as well as a bottle or can. Might be wrong, but I know my local IPAs don't hold up as long in growlers as they do in cans.

That sounds correct. The examples I gave were a sour and a imperial stout, so it stayed good over time.

Plus as you're aware, generally it's best to drink IPAs within a month of production. I wouldn't hold onto those for more than a couple weeks personally in a growler.

 

[DCH]

That sounds correct. The examples I gave were a sour and a imperial stout, so it stayed good over time.

Plus as you're aware, generally it's best to drink IPAs within a month of production. I wouldn't hold onto those for more than a couple weeks personally in a growler.

A month seems a bit drastic, but most of my IPAs I drink come straight from the brewery, usually Trillium, Tree House, Night Shift or Exhibit 'A'. I like most of 'em best with a week or so - they can them kinda green around here - but I drink them pretty doggoned fresh.

 

[shovelpass]

A sixer of Uinta Baba Black Lager