mjrburn wrote:2nd, thanks to Pudding Mittens...I'm gonna give aging stouts a try.
Rock on! You won't be sorry.
I love aging. It's "Current You" giving a gift to "Future You". When "Future You" gets the gift years from now, he's really really happy that "Current You" was nice enough to put it aside and thus give it to him.
"Future You" is a great guy, you should spend some money now and give him some much-improved gifts.
Also, it's one of the very few ways that you can make time YOUR bitch, rather than the usual situation where you are its bitch. Usually time makes you older, breaks down your health, kills your loved ones, and generally screws you over. Aging fine cigars and stouts (and doing stuff like low-expense ETF investing with DRIP compounding) is a way to harness time and make it HELP you.
"DAMN YOU, passage of time! You've taken Aunt Edna and Grandpa from me, and you've given me the gout! But haha, at least I forced you to make my cigars and stouts better, you SOB!"It's very satisfying on a philosophical level... and you end up with friggin' DELICIOUS stuff that nobody else around you knows how to, or has the patience to, obtain.
Quote:3rd, thanks to delta1...I just acquired a fiver of DPG Cuban classics and wondered if they would age well. I'll try a fresh one but will definitely take your advice and allow a few to sleep a couple of years.
DPG stuff ages well. I speak from long experience here. But I think AJ stuff, most of it anyway, ages the best of almost anything.
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