The Brew Basement

Hello everyone! Here are a total of ten cellar updates - and I’m still not through July’s brews yet. As always seems to be the case, the results were a bit of a mixed bag.
Ommegang Hennepin - (One Year) This brew is holding up fantastically. The bright flavors of the fresh beer have muted somewhat, [...]

In quite an unusual move for me, I found myself hopping out of bed fairly early last Saturday morning. I took a quick shower, and then gently shook my wife awake.
She did some grumbling, but eventually she managed to claw her way out of bed. As she slid past me she made the observation about [...]

It’s a bit hard for me to believe, but the Brew Basement is now officially one year old.
Running a site like this has been an interesting experience. I’ve received more attention and traffic then I thought I would. Between all of you regular subscribers (check out the upper right-hand corner of this site if you [...]

Hello fellow beer geeks. I hope your summer has been going well. Once again, here’s a few recent cellaring links I’ve come across. Enjoy!
Every day I get a handfull of people landing at the site as a result of searching for information on the Kulminator brew pub in Antwerp Belgium, which is known for their [...]

Hi everyone, hope your summer has been going well (assuming it’s summer right now where you’re reading this).
If there was any doubt about beer cellaring’s rising popularity, it’s pretty much gone now.
If you haven’t already, you should immediately head over to the New York Times website and check out the new article “Beer Lovers [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]