DCist: Liquid Assets: Aged Beer

IMGoph

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:36:16 -0500

yeah, i've often been confused at monkey's abject hatred of yuengling, but you just gotta let that dog lie.

Tom Lee

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:46:57 -0500

TheMistler: there's no use challenging monkey on his hatred for Yuengling. I think he just got some skunky bottles and has never forgiven the brand -- it is green glass, after all. But if you find a bar with a fresh keg it can be surprisingly delicious. Definitely not a consistent beer, though.

202

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:05:31 -0500

I'm really enjoying this series. Keep 'em coming!

edenman

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:46:29 -0500

handle: i get along with my wine friends quite well, i just like to poke fun at them. and i like drinking wine, i just know next to nothing about it. TheMistler: i'm gonna have to side with monkey on this one. can't stand the stuff and would rather drink the cheap beer (although lord chesterfield is great stuff).

handle

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:45:57 -0500

I ride a bike, don't own a car, love wine more than anything, and drink beer more often than wine. DOES THIS MEAN I DON'T EXIST

Henry Krinkle

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:43:04 -0500

I'm confused. Does this mean that cyclists are beer drinkers and drivers are wine snobs? I like wine and beer, and I own a car and a bike.

TheMistler

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:40:51 -0500

Great post. I have been contemplating how I might go about setting up a small cellar rig for some of the nicer 22oz and 750ml and other big beer bombers I get. And, wow, monkeyrotica, just wow. I'm a beer snob, and generally shudder at the thought of drinking anything Bud, Miller, Coors affiliated (w/ occasional exceptions made for Blue Moon and such). Yuengling should not be denigrated to their level, even if you don't like it! I find it to be reasonable and sessionable.

handle

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:30:24 -0500

"wine drinkers are an easy target, and the people i know who have wine "cellars" are even easier targets." Horseshit! Self-conscious d-bags are easy targets. Some of them try hard to be urbane, moneyed sophisticates and buy overpriced Cabernet; others try hard to be laid-back, unpretentious types and age successive vintages of Victory's strong ale. Being a douche makes you a douche, not which liquid you take an interest in. I love both and I wish we could all get along.

edenman

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:28:41 -0500

202: Yea, best to drink that one soon. It will probably still be good, but I've heard that Unibroue bottles with a different yeast than their brewing yeast. I assume that means they've taken the longevity of the bottling yeast into account, but haven't tried aging their stuff myself so I'm not sure.

monkeyrotica

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:19:40 -0500

its "yuengling" No matter how you spell it, it still tastes like wide-open a$$. And I should know. I've had to kiss a lot of a$$ ON THE MOUTH to get where I am today; i.e., a three-story mound of used erotica. I wonder if that trick of using a Brita water filter to improve the taste of rotgut vodka will work on Yuengling? I'd better start off filtering the stale of horses and work my way up to Yuengling. Well, there goes my weekend.

202

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:17:06 -0500

I have a bottle of Unibroue's La Maudite (8%) that I have been aging for about six years. Do you think it will be any good? From what I've read here, it probably wouldn't do it any good to allow it to age much longer, so I'll probably crack it open pretty soon.

run_for_the_hills

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:04:31 -0500

Does it count if it ages in my belly?

edenman

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:04:23 -0500

hungeegirl: Thanks. fixed. handle: wine drinkers are an easy target, and the people i know who have wine "cellars" are even easier targets.

handle

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:59:29 -0500

Good post, and thanks for bringing attention to a facet of beer enjoyment that's overlooked too often. But really- "As with many things beer-related, aging beer is a less pretentious proposition than aging wine" I mean....now it's pretentious just to keep wine around? I don't even have to be an ostentatious blowhard bragging about my wine collection to be pretentious? I just have to....have wine?

hungeegirl

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:58:40 -0500

its "yuengling"

majapa

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:41:15 -0500

Awesome post! I've always wanted a 101 on beer aging. Thanks!