Beers in my cellar

Genuinely good question, and lambic is the right example to pick — aged gueuze has a drinking window in a way most beer does not.

The honest answer is no, not now. Cellarion is wine-shaped underneath: every bottle resolves to a grape variety, an appellation and a vintage, and the drink windows are built on how those age. A lambic has none of those in a form the app understands — and what would actually happen today is that it would be flagged as not-wine and pulled out of the shared registry. We have had to do that this week with cider, mead and a couple of spirits. That is not us being precious about wine; it is that every field on the record would be wrong, and a wrong record is worse than no record.

Doing it properly would mean a second set of fields, a second way of thinking about ageing, and someone who knows beer well enough to curate it. Right now there is one curator role and it cannot keep up with wine — the registry has thousands of wines that still need checking. Adding a category we would curate badly would make both worse.

So: not on the roadmap, and I would rather say that plainly than leave it as a maybe. If it helps in the meantime, Cellarion is open source and self-hostable, so nothing stops someone building this on top of it — and if enough people want it, that changes the calculation.

Keep the lambics somewhere cool in the meantime.