The Brew Basement

Thanks to Beernews.org for the heads-up on this.
If you’re anywhere near San Diego, be sure to take your June 13th Friday morning off and head of to Alesmith Brewing company. There they’ll be releasing two aged versions of their acclaimed Speedway Stout - one from 2006, and the other from 2003.
This beer is one [...]

Hi everyone. For my latest round of updates I have six beers cellaring well, and only a single one going downhill. I had fun with these tastings, as you can imagine!
Unibroue La Fin Du Monde - Reduced carbonation is really allowing the fruit flavors and sugar-cookie like sweetness to come through.
Stone Double Bastard Ale - [...]

Two beers, one aged for six months standing up, one aged laying down. But which is which?
For those of you who weren’t around back in October, you probably missed the kickoff of my first beer cellaring experiment. With the help of a couple of cases of Brewery Ommegang’s Three Philosophers Belgian-styled Quad, I’m exploring one [...]

Hi everyone! I’m back from vacation and ready for more beer! Of course I had a blast drinking my share of brews down in North Carolina too! As always, thanks for reading!

Name: La Merle
Brewer: North Coast Brewing
Style: Saison
Vintage: 2008
Cellared On: April 11th, 2008
Original Tasting: May 19th, 2008
It was a gorgeous spring day. It wasn’t [...]

Name: The Abyss
Brewer: Deschutes
Style: Russian Imperial Stout
Vintage: 2007
Bottled On: December 2007
Cellared On: January 23rd, 2008
Original Tasting: May 8th, 2008
OK, so I admit that this wasn’t the original tasting for this brew. The first tasting I did was actually back in January when I first received my case. I was so looking forward to trying [...]

Name: Barleywine (No fancy names here!)
Brewer: Green Flash
Style: Barleywine (Bet you couldn’t figure that one out!)
Vintage: 2007
Cellared On: April 9th, 2008
Original Tasting: April 21st, 2008
Green Flash’s barleywine poured a clear dark amber with a very light brown head. There were some sweet caramel and toffee malt notes in the smell, but they were totally [...]

OK, so they look the same, but how do they taste?
The minute I saw the 2008 vintage of North Coast’s Old Stock Ale on the shelves earlier this spring, I knew this article was coming soon. I just couldn’t wait to pour one of my 2007’s to see how it was matching up with this [...]

If there was any doubt about it before, there certainly isn’t now. Beer enthusiasts are a generous lot.
Of course, it always helps to have the right motivation. In this case, some absolutely tremendous rare and aged brews proved to be the correct motivating factor. Check out the dollar amounts raised by Liquid Solutions through their [...]

Name: Old Stock Ale
Brewer: North Coast Brewery
Style: Old Ale
Vintage: 2008
Cellared On: March 30th, 2008
Original Tasting: May 2nd, 2008
Much like the 2007 version - okay, more like exactly like the 2007 vintage; North Coast’s Old Stock Ale pours a dark mahogany brown with streaks of red shooting through the beer. It was very cool looking.
Extremely [...]

Feel like getting your hands on some rare and vintage brews?
Feel like supporting a good cause?
Liquids Solutions (my favorite online beverage retailer) is giving you a chance to do both by hosting a vintage beer auction starting this Friday, May 9th and ending on Sunday the 11th. All proceeds will be going to a Parkinson’s [...]