Thinking more about those that benfit from mid to long term storage. Fridge or cellar/pantry? Standing up or lying down?
"In me farkin’ BELLY laddy!!! You goona finish that or ask more silly questions?"
But, seriously, following the example of Ommegang, I age them standing up in a closet at cool room temp (I live by the beach).
In my wine fridge, and treat them like wine. Be wary of storing anything that is bottle conditioning too cold, as the yeasts will clump up and stop their fermentations.
I’ve seen pictures…I’ll buy that. 
I have a number of craft beer collectors that are clients at my storage facility. They all store their bottles standing up.
Hey - good to know.
Yes, but then you get a sort of Champagne style yeast autolysis thing going on. Would be fun to compare two bottles with one in constant fermentation and the other one “digesting” it’s yeasts.
This is what my brother does, who is a craft beer collector. Yeasts at the bottom of the bottle? I’ll ask him…
I always store beer standing up. It’s a necessity.
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If a beer is cork-finished it should be aged standing up. If it’s only crown-capped I wouldn’t think it would make a difference if it were lying down or standing up.
My aging beers are in my wine cellar, in a cool dark storage closet in the basement of my apt. building, or in a box in our second bedroom. Ideally, they would all be in the wine cellar.
I age them in my wine cellar. Where else would you age it?
Standing up is the way to go, although Ithink posters here may be wrong about Ommegang. If memory serves, they lay theirs sideways. We have been in the caverns they use for storage- Howe Caverns and seen their giant rom dedicated to beer. I’ll ask my wife to be sure.
Regardless, I store mine standing up.
Just like Bob H., wine cellar, standing. Those are my Belgians.
I generally have a case of Sam Adams which stands up wherever I put it until it is chilled and consumed… I like the mixed cases of seasonal brews. I know S.A. isn’t that impressive but for regular use I find it pretty satisfying.
Brian, I find it is MORE important for crown-capped beer to be stored upright. Personal experience shows a greater failure rate of the beer when in contact with the metal closure rather than just trapped air.
hmm … good to know … (but aren’t the inside of crown caps lined? (i.e.: no actualy beer-to-metal contact) – but that is probably besides the point. so, there must be something in the beer that compromises/decays the seal between the glass of the bottle and the liner of the crown cap) …there’s some bottles I need to go re-position now!