The Brew Basement

Hello everyone!
Lisa and I spent the past weekend celebrating our anniversary with a couple of friends up in the wilds of the Adirondack mountains. The reason I’m mentioning it here is that we stumbled on a newly opened restaurant in the sleepy little town of North Creek. It’s named BarVino, and despite it being a [...]

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 [...]

It’s just waayyy too hot right now for just the beginning of summer. I’m sitting here sweating my….. err let’s just say I’m sweating a lot.It’s topping out at about 94 degrees or so today here in Upstate NY, which just isn’t right. I wasn’t going to write at all this evening, but then I [...]

Today I’d like to give special thanks to Brew Basement reader Clint who has generously allowed me to share his fantastic Beer Cellaring Spreadsheet with you all. I’m in the process of putting my collection over onto this sheet’s format, and I recommend it highly for keeping track of your beer collection.
I’d also like to [...]

Name: Old Guardian
Brewer: Stone
Style: Barleywine
Vintage: 2008
Cellared On: March 7th, 2008
Original Tasting: March 29th, 2008
I wasn’t sure if this brew would make to Upstate NY or not. Not every Stone offering seems to make it this far (no sign of the Russian Imperial Stout yet), so I was pretty happy to see this in my [...]

Hello everyone! I just thought I’d share a few recent cellaring links I’ve come across! Enjoy!
For those of you looking a way to organize your cellared brews, here’s a great spreadsheet for beer cellaring put together by RunAwayJim.Org. I also have another one in a slightly different format that a reader recently shared with me, [...]

Hello everyone! I am VERY excited tonight - tomorrow is my absolute favorite beer drinking day of the year. Yes, it’s the first day of the NCAA college basketball tournament here in America (Go Siena!). Sports just doesn’t get better then this as far as I’m concerned.
I was going to write out a somewhat large [...]

Happy Valentines day! Here’s some recent cellaring links from around the web.
It’s another mention of beer cellaring in a major publication! This time it was the Washington Post with an article called Brews That Stand The Test of Time by Greg Kitsock. Good stuff!
Great brewers get to have all the fun. In this case the [...]

Happy Friday Everyone! I’ve come across some recent cellaring stuff on the web, and I just felt the need to share. Enjoy!
On the most recent of their always entertaining and informative podcasts, the Speaking of Beer guys have also included a “beer geek moment” dedicated to cellaring beer. Be sure to check them out if [...]