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Hello everyone!
I’ve just recently come across a couple of interesting discussions on the whole topic of how you should store your cellared beers. First off, a few Brew Basement readers gave some insightful comments on my recent update to my little beer cellaring experiment (I certainly learned a thing or two from reading them). A [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]