Sep 10 09

You Show Me Yours… (or: The Beer Cupboard, redux)

Posted by: Darren Turpin in: Miscellaneous

According to Mark Dredge (@markdredge), who knows a thing or two about his beer, two major tell-tale signs of Beer Geekism are:

  1. When you have a cool, dark cupboard (far from a radiator or the cold of the garage) to keep your beer at optimum storage temperature.
  2. When you take photos of your beer.

So, combining those two symptoms must surely elevate the Beer Geek to new levels of shamelessness, no? Andy Mogg (@chilliupnorth) showed me his via Twitter this morning, and now, I'm showing everyone mine (and not for the first time, I know...):

The Beer Cupboard, Sept 09

That's just the main beer cupboard though, including the massed ranks of BrewDog (left and centre), the bulk of a Rare Belgians case that I bought a few months ago from BeerMerchants.com in the middle-right, and a few recent Tesco purchases on the far-right there, including a pack of Flying Dogs. Oh, and a Theakston's gift pack I picked up in Masham a while back.

But that's not all, folks. Thanks to the current Sainsbury's Real Ale Promo, plus my Dad's beer-bearing visit on Monday, there's currently an overflow section that's loitering at the far end of the dining table, making the place look untidy:

The Beer Cupbaord overflow, Sept 09

And then there's the special beer cupboard, where I've put a few particularly choice items away to mature for a while (I suspect a few of those Belgians will find their way into the special cupboard before too long). No photos of that one, though. They're all a bit camera-shy...

What about our fellow Beer Geeks? Got any good pics of your bottle stash? Post them on Flickr or TwitPic, send a link to @blogobeer (or email them to me via darren [at] blogobeer [dot] com) and I'll post the links at the end of this post.

Because yes, I really am that Beer Geeky. And deep down inside, you know you are too...

Update

A couple of those beer cupboard shots:

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  1. Posted by andy mogg on 10/9/2009 at 13:44:03

    Great stash there, seems like we have a lot of similar beers and breweries, nice to see you have the new hambleton labels (how geeky am i) all mine apart from the thoroughbred are the old style ones....the newer ones are much nicer.



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  2. Posted by Richard Mackney on 10/9/2009 at 13:47:35

    Brilliant! ... must get myself a cupboard! but for now, here are my 'Beer Shots' ... http://picasaweb.google.com/mackney/Beer

    @richardmackney



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  3. Posted by Mark on 10/9/2009 at 14:04:08

    Is that all...?! ;) That's a nice collection of Belgians in there, plus the 'Dogs.

    I'll try and get some pictures up of my cupboards sometime. I need to start drinking through my collection as it's getting out of hand!



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  4. Posted by Darren Turpin on 10/9/2009 at 14:10:19

    @Andy - I like the new Hambleton labels as well. Very sophisticated, just the sort of image real ale should be projecting.

    @Richard - Some very nice shots there. I got excited when I spotted the Old Ember in one of the group pics, but then I spotted it was from July '07 - you haven't seen any of it around recently, have you? Can't find it anywhere these days... :(

    @Mark - My missus has quite sensibly suggested that maybe I should think about not buying any more beer until I can fit it in the cupboard. I daren't tell her there's a new BrewDog / Stone collaboration due, and BeerMerchants just uploaded a whole batch of new US imports, and we're off to York in a few weeks, which means we could swing by Beer Ritz on the way, and...



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  5. Posted by Mark on 10/9/2009 at 16:50:20

    Haha, yup, I've been told that too! And we're moving into a little flat so have limited space for beer. I've already shotgunned the bottom of the wardrobe and a shelf in the fridge but that's probably all I can manage (I think maybe 50 bottles... that's less than half what I'm currently at, uh oh!)



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  6. Posted by Darren Turpin on 10/9/2009 at 17:15:12

    Mate, ship them up to me and I'll... er... look after them for you. Yes, that's what I'll do. Take care of them for you. One by one... :)



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  7. Posted by bailey on 10/9/2009 at 18:27:50

    Oh, wow. Nice cupboard. There's no way I'm sharing photos of our stash without performing some cosmetic surgery first. It's a mess, frankly.



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  8. Posted by Darren Turpin on 11/9/2009 at 10:33:25

    Come on Bailey, show us what you've got! :)



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  9. Posted by Darren Turpin on 21/9/2009 at 09:32:21

    Check out Mark Dredge's 'specials' collection...



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