Hello everybody!As I am quite new to this newsgroup, I do not know if this topic wasalready discussed. If so, please excuse me.I would like to know how I should store my beer. Of course, in arather cold and dark place, so I put it in my cellar. But how should Iput it? Upright or lay it down? I believe there are some aspects tothink over. Crowncap or cork, beer with yeast/sediment or without,bottle size (?) etc.I heard that, different to wine, it is not necessary to lay corkedbottles down. Is that true?Does it have any influence if I lay bottles of lager beer withcrowncap in the fridge?Or does it even make a difference storing bottles with crowncap orswing top bottle?If I lay down bottles with yeast/sediment I enlarge the surface of thesediment. Does this have a bad/good influence on the beer?Thanks in forehand for your opinions!Greetings from Germany and Prost!Bastian

Oh, we talk about things two, three, sometimes 47 times. No problem.I try to wet the corks by laying the beer on its side for a few days everyyear, but otherwise I leave them standing up. For what it's worth, I do thesame with my whiskey.Only if you do it for three or four years.I don't trust the seal on swing tops, I store them standing up unless I'mgoing to drink them that same day.Depends on the beer. If you're talking about weissbier, I would think itcould only have a good influence. Problem with some other beers is that youwant to leave the sediment behind, and laying them down makes that tough.Hey, that's all they are: opinions!

How to store beer right

Nov 04, 2003 21 Replies

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Expletive Deleted 22 years ago

Nope, have had plenty of skunked Samuel Smith's...

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Expletive Deleted 22 years ago

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, it was written:

the Winter Welcome seems to be the worst offender though none are immune. When it shows up here, I will occasionally, given the desire, buy the closed case of 12 bottles. But if I just want the one bottle, I will get it as soon as it shows up in the stores, and I always pull the first 3 bottles off the rack and grab one from the back, then put the first 3 bottles back in their place. I've had success avoiding lightstruck beers of many brands this way.

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