Category: Cellar Experiments

Aging the Same Beers at Different Temperatures - My Second Beer Cellar Experiment »

Hello everyone! I’ve been busy getting ready to start my second beer cellaring experiment which, as I previously announced, will examine the effects of different temperatures when aging beer. I’ll be aging the same beers at 40, 55, and 70 degrees fahrenheit and documenting their changes in appearance and flavor over three years time. And thanks […]

Beer Cellar Experiment Update and Announcement »

28 bottles of Ommegang’s Three Philosophers, just waiting to be drank by yours truly
As you can see by the picture above, my first cellaring experiment is well under way. For those of you who are new here, I’m trying to shed some light on the highly debated issue of whether you should store your beer on it’s […]

Beer Cellar Experiment - Lay Your Bottles Down or Keep ‘Em Up? (Part 2) »

If you haven’t already, please check out Part 1 of my post on this experiment in beer cellaring.

In implementing this experiment, I had one very important thing to decide on - what beer was I going to use? There were a whole host of factors to consider here:

In order to test the conditions I mentioned in […]

Beer Cellaring Experiment - Lay Your Bottles Down or Keep ‘Em Up? »

 
It’s alive! My beer is alive! 
Should you store your bottles of beer standing up, or should you lay them on their side to age?
This question has been an area of contention for some time in the beer cellaring community. Most experts would agree that all beers, even corked ones, should be aged standing up. All brewers certainly seem to say this. […]