The Brew Basement

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my fellow Americans out there! I’m in charge of cooking up a few side dishes today for our Thanksgiving at our friends house, so I’m just putting up this quick little post today.
I’ve been following a few discussions on some of the beer sites recently that I’d thought I’d share. […]

Hello everyone. I thought I’d share a few links of interest to beer cellarers (is that a word?) that I’ve come across lately. Perfect reading for a lazy Saturday, especially if you stayed out a bit too late last night like I did.
The great Beer Hunter himself, Michael Jackson, chimed in with his thoughts and […]

I came across a great article the other day on RateBeer.com that I just had to share with you all. It’s by a fellow named Joris P Pattyn and titled So You’ve Got a Cellar…Now What? - A Tutorial On The Aging of Beer. It is, without a doubt, the most detailed (and well written) […]

Hello everyone. Over the past couple of days I’ve come across some articles at some of my fellow Beer Bloggers’ sites that I thought were interesting from a beer cellaring standpoint. Enjoy!
I love to read about people’s experiences with aged beers, and I especially enjoyed this well-written post over at Brewvana. I knew that the […]

If you’re interested in cellaring beers, and I hope most of you who are reading this are, then you simply MUST check out the Cellaring/Aging beer forumover at BeerAdvocate.com.
In this forum beer geeks (like yours truly) are constantly discussing and debating just about anything having to do with cellaring beers there. If you have a question, just post […]

If you are interested in cellaring Belgian beers, or just interested in Belgian beers in general, not only should you check out my article on some recommended Belgian Beers to Cellar, but you should check out Andrea’s great blog on Belgian Beers.
I’ve found her site to be a great resource on the different beers and breweries […]

I’m doing some traveling today, so I won’t have my second part of the Bottle Conditioning article up until later this evening. In the meantime, enjoy these posts from some other beer blogs!
Here’s a great post from the blog Appellation Beer:Beer From a Good Home that describes a tasting of some vintage brews (I wish […]

I came across a pretty cool section of the Stone Brewery Website that’s all about cellaring beers. They age a number of their own beers, and then do tastings of them at six month intervals. It’s pretty interesting to read their commentary on how the various beers are changing over time. 
But that’s not even the best thing about […]

As usual, the latest issue of Beer Advocate is well done, informative, and fun to read. The “Ask the beer geek” feature had a couple of questions on beer aging and cellaring which were answered by pointing the asker to the Cellaring 101 section of BeerAdvocate.com. There was also a nice profile of Brookly Brewery […]

There was a great article featuring vintage beers that appeared on the NY Times website Tuesday. It talks about a meal the author had at the legendary Gramercy Tavern that was paired with a variety of aged brews. A great read!
NY Times - Beers worth waiting for