Vertical Tastings: Worth the Effort?

Well assuming you listen to United We Drink, follow anyone using #FlaBrew on twitter, or simply keep tabs on the DosBeerigos Facebook Page; you are well aware that a vertical of Dark Lord took place the other night at my birthday gathering.

Yep 2005 - 2010 of this rare beer was sampled amongst some of my closest friends and family members.

This leads me to the week long question.....are vertical tastings worth it?

Assuming you collected all the bottles yourself, a 6 year vertical would take, well 6 years. That's a long time to wait to drink some beer, wine, hell anything. If you did not collect the bottles yourself then you would have to try to piece the vertical together (this was how I obtained my bottles).

Trading for the bottles can lead to almost a wild card of how the beers were aged for such a long time. Were the conditions ideal for cellaring (a dark cool place)?

This week we will take the adventure of the vertical one day at a time. I may have some fellow tasters chime in on their experience tasting the beers.

Let us start with 2010........well honestly my opinion on this one hasn't changed in the few months