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Can we talk about how underrated Oud Beersel stuff is? 2002 and the cork popped itself off. Still really carbedonated. Tons of cherry, kind of vinous, getting that "old" taste and has a slightly acetic note but it's basically cherry pie. Beersel Toer de Geuze glassware.

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Can we talk about how underrated Oud Beersel stuff is? 2002 and the cork popped itself off. Still really carbedonated. Tons of cherry, kind of vinous, getting that "old" taste and has a slightly acetic note but it's basically cherry pie. Beersel Toer de Geuze glassware.

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I am building up my lambic cellar and this is one producer i am piling up down there. Don't have any krieks but have 1/2 case of the gueuze with plans to get more soon
 
How many bottles of lambic do you guys have in the cellar? I'm in the 120-140 range spread amongst Cantillon, 3F, Tilquin, Hannsens, Boon, Oud Beersel, De Troch, Lindemans (cuvée Rene only), a few timmermans (their new stuff)
 
How many bottles of lambic do you guys have in the cellar? I'm in the 120-140 range spread amongst Cantillon, 3F, Tilquin, Hannsens, Boon, Oud Beersel, De Troch, Lindemans (cuvée Rene only), a few timmermans (their new stuff)

I've got 91 bottles of lambic, 55 of which are Drie Fonteinen, with the rest fairly evenly split between Cantillon, De Cam, Tilquin, and Girardin. Lambic makes up roughly half my commercial cellar, with the rest being split between other sours and then wild/Brett saisons.

Other than that, I have about 150 bottles of homebrew, all of which are either saisons or wilds.
 
How many bottles of lambic do you guys have in the cellar? I'm in the 120-140 range spread amongst Cantillon, 3F, Tilquin, Hannsens, Boon, Oud Beersel, De Troch, Lindemans (cuvée Rene only), a few timmermans (their new stuff)

Far too many according to my spreadsheet. But I don't cellar anything else soooo
 
How many bottles of lambic do you guys have in the cellar? I'm in the 120-140 range spread amongst Cantillon, 3F, Tilquin, Hannsens, Boon, Oud Beersel, De Troch, Lindemans (cuvée Rene only), a few timmermans (their new stuff)
I have about 100 bottles of gueuze last I checked, maybe another 30 or so of fruit lambic. I don't keep super close count. Almost entirely Cantillon/3F though there's some Tilquin and Hanssens too.
 
I think there is a line between cellaring and hoarding, but some of you guys are so far over it you can't even see it anymore. Maybe that's just the jealousy talking. I've got about a half dozen. I'll probably have 0 after an upcoming tasting and the following lamebic brew day.
 
I think there is a line between cellaring and hoarding, but some of you guys are so far over it you can't even see it anymore. Maybe that's just the jealousy talking. I've got about a half dozen. I'll probably have 0 after an upcoming tasting and the following lamebic brew day.

You get a coolship recently or something? Otherwise you're just brewing beer.
 
I think there is a line between cellaring and hoarding, but some of you guys are so far over it you can't even see it anymore. Maybe that's just the jealousy talking. I've got about a half dozen. I'll probably have 0 after an upcoming tasting and the following lamebic brew day.
Gueuze ages well. It's really hard to have too much of it since it can go for 15-20 years. As long as the bottles are in a reasonable cellar, I'm not really sure there's such a thing as "too much gueuze".
 
I've got 91 bottles of lambic, 55 of which are Drie Fonteinen, with the rest fairly evenly split between Cantillon, De Cam, Tilquin, and Girardin. Lambic makes up roughly half my commercial cellar, with the rest being split between other sours and then wild/Brett saisons.

Other than that, I have about 150 bottles of homebrew, all of which are either saisons or wilds.
This is exactly what I'm going for, I'm trying to trade all the beers I wish I didn't have for more lambics and am mainly buying HF saisons and other sours
 
This is exactly what I'm going for, I'm trying to trade all the beers I wish I didn't have for more lambics and am mainly buying HF saisons and other sours

I started doing this a few years ago. I adopted a "locals and lambics" philosophy. Buy/drink local, cellar/trade for lambics and drink whatever non-lambic extras I get through trading almost immediately. It has worked out quite well. I don't have anything cellared that's not lambic.

I just peaked at my spreadsheet, and I'm sure it's off by a few numbers because I've been pulling from there and not updating like I should, here's a breakdown:

413 total lambics:
3x 1.5L
272x 750ml
138x 375ml
-------------------------------------
182x Cantillon
156x Drie Fonteinen
23x Tilquin
17x Girardin
12x Hanssens
11x De Cam
4x Beersel
3x Boon
3x Miscellaneous
2x Lindemans (DHvL 20th)
--------------------------------------
267x Gueuze
105x Lambic - Fruit
40x Lambic - Unblended
1x - Witbier (Zwanze 2010)
 
This is exactly what I'm going for, I'm trying to trade all the beers I wish I didn't have for more lambics and am mainly buying HF saisons and other sours

That's the same thing I did 2-3 years ago and haven't looked back! I have a few bottles of Bourbon County for when the mood strikes me, and a few random quads, but otherwise straight (wild) saisons and lambics/sours.
 
I'd guess that lambic is only ~half of my total beer, but it's probably ~80% of my "cellar". I have too much non-lambic beer hanging around that needs to get dranked.
 
I started doing this a few years ago. I adopted a "locals and lambics" philosophy. Buy/drink local, cellar/trade for lambics and drink whatever non-lambic extras I get through trading almost immediately. It has worked out quite well. I don't have anything cellared that's not lambic.

I just peaked at my spreadsheet, and I'm sure it's off by a few numbers because I've been pulling from there and not updating like I should, here's a breakdown:

413 total lambics:
3x 1.5L
272x 750ml
138x 375ml
-------------------------------------
182x Cantillon
156x Drie Fonteinen
23x Tilquin
17x Girardin
12x Hanssens
11x De Cam
4x Beersel
3x Boon
3x Miscellaneous
2x Lindemans (DHvL 20th)
--------------------------------------
267x Gueuze
105x Lambic - Fruit
40x Lambic - Unblended
1x - Witbier (Zwanze 2010)
**** you.
 
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