Cellaring Beer

[bsardin]

I am just getting started cellaring beers. I know that Bigfoot Barleywine, Old Foghorn and Chimay Grande Reserver are good beers to cellar. Does anyone else know of beers that benefit from cellaring? Thanks for your help.

[Richard English]

Are you talking bottled or cask?

[hnrblbrbrn]

Is cask the same as kegging?

[bsardin]

I am referring to bottled beer that can be cellared.

[hopjack13]

i believe "cask" is the same as bottle conditioned. a beer that ferments and carbonates itself naturally after being bottled..correct? stone brewing co. has the epic ales that are good for the cellar, ment to be cellared . they also have the "old gaurdian" barleywine that blows seirra nevadas' big foot right out of the water.

[Richard English]

I posted some derails about this elsewhere.

Strong bottled beers can be kept for years but will not improve significantly unless they are bottle-conditioned. Bottle-conditioned beers (like Fuller's 1845) will keep and continue to improve for a year or more.

Cask beer will not keep for long as it is still fermenting and a month would be tops.

Keg beer that is sterilised and carbonated (like A-B) will keep for ever - but who'd want to bother?