{"id":29,"date":"2012-03-16T18:34:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T18:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/beer\/?p=29"},"modified":"2012-03-16T18:34:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T18:34:54","slug":"how-i-approach-beer-buying-and-cellaring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2012\/03\/16\/how-i-approach-beer-buying-and-cellaring\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 How I Approach Beer Buying and Cellaring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11941,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/44048128@N00\\\/6870314849&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190123071425\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/44048128@N00\\\/6870314849\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-05 17:35:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-11 12:01:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-27 01:58:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-02 08:38:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-11 22:19:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-17 19:19:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-24 15:06:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-09 06:42:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-12 10:47:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-26 14:28:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 17:08:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23 19:26:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 10:41:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-10 20:48:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-10 20:48:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"View &#039;My Home Beer Cellar - February &#039;12&#039; on Flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/44048128@N00\/6870314849\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  border=\"0\"  alt=\"My Home Beer Cellar - February &#039;12\"  width=\"640\"  height=\"480\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7045\/6870314849_045f8eaacb_z.jpg\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beer is for drinking. In the community of craft beer enthusiasts, this is uttered early and often. It&#8217;s used as a generic response to anyone who asks about saving, storing, cellaring or buying beer just to resale at a markup. It&#8217;s not always uttered but it&#8217;s uttered more than you think and often by a guy who has a few bottles cellared in his own closet. &#8220;Beer is for drinking&#8221; is a mantra that is used when it&#8217;s convenient.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s a no-brainer that beer should be for drinking. This is the case for me except how can I say this when there are over 300 bottles sitting in my cellar? There are a lot of guys who cellar beer because you have to sometimes. Sometimes, you go to a store that&#8217;s in another town or while you&#8217;re on vacation in Europe and it&#8217;s hard to not grab only what you&#8217;ll be drinking that week. Perhaps there is a beer that you&#8217;ve been searching for since last year and they have a bottle. This is the story of most craft beer enthusiasts. Many of our wives or girlfriends give us a $100 dollar bill and that&#8217;s our limit even if we only claim to be getting a seasonal IPA from our favorite brewery. As expected, we come out with a box of beer and that there were things we just couldn&#8217;t pass up.<\/p>\n<p>So, when guys say they are cellaring beer, the truth is, they&#8217;re keeping beer at an ideal temperature until they get around to drinking it. I buy 4 beers because I won&#8217;t see them until next year or ever again and then I prioritize what I drink based on how the beer ages. I don&#8217;t age beers intentionally but beers that can sit for 5 years might just sit for 5 years until I can get around to them.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like this is the right approach. Sure, buying only what you can drink now is fine but there is this feeling of a missed opportunity when it comes to harder to find beers. Would you not go and buy a beer that is amazing and hard to get just because you have a 6-pack in the fridge? No, but then you have 350 beers in your closet and feel like a hoarder.<\/p>\n<p>I buy what I want to buy and drink what I want to drink. I don&#8217;t buy beer to keep. I know this doesn&#8217;t make sense but it&#8217;s my approach.<\/p>\n<p>Now if only brewers would stop releasing great beers so I can drink what&#8217;s in my cellar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beer is for drinking. In the community of craft beer enthusiasts, this is uttered early and often. 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