I saw this 4 pack on sale at our local stupidmarket for $14. How is this price and is it a tasty beverage? Is it one that you can age?

Good yes and absolutely. Buy it. Only one run per year

You could try it, although scotch ales can be hoppy they are very malt forward. Generally the rule of thumb is if the beer is heavily hopped like an IPA it will not age well. So just avoid the obvious, IPAs, Barleywines, et cetera.

Trappist ales, are great agers especially Chimay because they generally utilize hop extract and the most advanced brewing equipment/methods to create their beers. Extracts lend well to age because they only concern themselves with IBU levels and not overall nuance from the hops. It's expected that the malts provide the nuance and the hops are only there to be a preservative and supplement the overall quality of the beer. So in a nutshell any beers made with hops extract in the place of pellets or whole cones with be a superior ager unless the actual hops content is negligible.

Also I've noticed that hefewieß naturuß beers lend well to super long aging (10-20 years) and become crystal clear and incredibly sweet when left in the fridge in near stasis. Bear in mind however, that generally the weiß yeast has been removed and replaced with a lagering yeast in order to improved the volumes of carbonation on the bottle fermentation.

^^^ I age barleywines, not that I age for longer then a year because beer don't seem to want to stay around as long as cigars in this house. My first barleywine I tried was right off the shelf and I thought it was the worst beer ever. The last 3 sat in my fridge for probably 9 months before I could bring myself to try it again and it was a lot better to me. Now the local brewery does a barlyewine that I think is ok fresh but it is kind of sweet in flavor.

I like the Backwoods Basturd and the first time I had it Dkeage had gifted me one with a year on it. Good stuff worth the coin(about same price here) for a once in awhile beer.

Jjanecka, barley wines age wonderfully. What have you been drinking?

BEER IS TO DRINK,

BREAST ARE TO LOOK AT..

which ages better?

Beer does

don't they both go flat though?

Grandpa found a bottle of beer in the smokehouse he made from his last batch 40 years ago a few summers ago. He said it still fizzed strong and it wasn't as bad as he remembered.

Dharbolt, I don't bottle much anymore. I have 4 ball lock soda kegs and brew wood aged Czech Plzens TripleD @ 38 fermenting temp.

I do have a few batches left of some stouts that never saw the lips because their first run was not desirable. I'm hoping the harshness settles soon.

38 triple D's probably won't go flat with aging.

MOONIE ! ! !

Thank you for all the input. I will get it, drink it & report back here.

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I beg to differ

Pancakes!

Eggs on a nail 🙂