Cellaring and Vintage beer discussion

[matedog]

More dusty clearing:
2012 Oud Beersel Kriek - muted fruit took on a weird almost chlorine flavor. Not terrible, interesting, but not improved.


2013 Tilquin^2 - nice and funky but not particularly vibrant which can befall old gueuze. Good but didn’t improve.


2014 Resurgam - muted and bland but a little sharper than the old TRB above.

I thought I liked old lambic but maybe not?

 

[Fear]

More dusty clearing:
2012 Oud Beersel Kriek - muted fruit took on a weird almost chlorine flavor. Not terrible, interesting, but not improved.


2013 Tilquin^2 - nice and funky but not particularly vibrant which can befall old gueuze. Good but didn’t improve.


2014 Resurgam - muted and bland but a little sharper than the old TRB above.

I thought I liked old lambic but maybe not?

 

[holldy01]

Maybe 2015? I excepted it to be enamel peeling but it’s the opposite. Extremely low acid. Surprisingly sweet. Low carbonation. Raspberry is there but muted. It’s certainly over the hill but better than expected.

 

[rcubed]

Acidity will drop with age.

All the high acid stuff I made back in 2014-2017 has mellowed out quite a bit.

 

[iong516]

Acidity will drop with age.

All the high acid stuff I made back in 2014-2017 has mellowed out quite a bit.

Sometimes

 

[MrDave]

So I haven't been buying BA stouts, barleywines, or sours for maybe a decade now. The wine fridge I used as a beer cellar broke years ago, but it's still holding the old bottles I had at probably 68F on average. You folks think that 2016 Parabola it gonna be any good?

 

[Fear]

So I haven't been buying BA stouts, barleywines, or sours for maybe a decade now. The wine fridge I used as a beer cellar broke years ago, but it's still holding the old bottles I had at probably 68F on average. You folks think that 2016 Parabola it gonna be any good?

It'll taste like a fine chocolate with a soupçon of cardboard.

 

[MrDave]

It'll taste like a fine chocolate with a soupçon of cardboard.

So I should share it with my 10mo kitty? Little fucker loves cardboard.

 

[Souredstout]

You folks think that 2016 Parabola it gonna be any good?

I think it will be.

 

[SAISON FUCK]

This is delicious still after five and a half years in the bottle.

 

[libbey]

Woah

2017-18??? upright bioacoustics blend

Bone fucking dry

Sherry, dark fruit and leather nose also still super oaky.

This is aging beautifully. Initially was scared when I found this because it was such a treat fresh that I thought it had likely fallen off.

Looking forward to the other couple I found with this one.

 

[libbey]

Second pour

 

[Squinty McWigglespit]

 

[matedog]

Went through some old beer recently:

I have a 8 or so bottle lineup but no one wants to drink 8 bottles of Beat in one sitting, so I broke out a few bottles for a side by side:
2012 (Batch 5) - Oldest bottle I've purchased and last bottle. Flat, very slightly oxidized, but funky as hell
2013 - Again last bottle of this batch. Last few times I've had this, it was flat, but this fortunately had some mild carb. Still funky as hell and awesome.
2019 - Way less funky. My recollection was that things get less interesting after 2013 and this reaffirms that.
2022 - Impressively similar to 2019 but again, way less interesting.

So in summary, Beat used to be really interesting and wild, but it got reined in around 2015 and things are still good but not great.

 

[matedog]

More 2012 goodness, Bruery edition:

Sour in the Rye (2012) - Doesn't have that great rye character as I remember fresh, but holding up surprisingly well. I have had oxidized shitty bottles of this before, but this one was pretty good.

2012 Black Tuesday - Still has carb, no oxy. Very smooth and mellow. Quite nice.