Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
| A few weeks ago I finally broke down and decided to reorganize my beer cellar. I’ve been buying beers to keep off-and-on since I picked up my first bottle of Thomas Hardy Ale in 1991, but bouncing around the world as a naval officer really isn’t conducive to having a beer collection of any size. So it wasn’t until I retired and moved to Alaska in 2004 that I could really put away beers in any significant numbers. So that’s when I started cellaring beers in earnest.
Of course I made all the rookie mistakes. I cellared the wrong kind of beers. I didn’t keep good track of what I had, so things got forgotten. I didn’t cellar enough bottles of each beer, so I couldn’t taste the beer regularly to see when it was at its peak. I didn’t have any sort of shelf plan, so finding bottles was difficult. You get the idea. So a few weeks ago, I reorganized my entire cellar and spread-sheeted my inventory, including dates in, target dates out, and actual dates out. Hopefully, this will allow my to keep … |
Source: Drinking on the Last Frontier
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