This thread's been slow and I've been making an effort to get rid of old beers. Some quick thoughts:
Tilquin squared - I've had several bottles over the last several years, and they've pretty consistently been among the best beers I've ever had. Sadly, this bottle suggests that they may be on the decline. Still a delicious beer, but I wouldn't have been able to pick this out blind from lots of other gueuzes. Hopefully this was an anomaly.
Big Bad Baptist Reserve - This isn't old, but I was hoping it would be good. It wasn't. This year's variants have been pretty bad. If I had to rank the Baptist versions, it would probably be 2016 Double Barrel>= 2016 Baptista=2017 Baptista >>>> Regular Baptist >>>>>> 2017 Reserve > 2017 Triple Barrel. Obviously the 2017 Reserve and Triple Barrel were not worth buying.
Fantome whatever - Batch 1 of this was amazing. This wasn't as good. More like "generic Fantome", which means that I thought the first 1/4 bottle was pretty weird and the last 1/2 bottle was very good. I'm hoping this gets better with age.
BFM 20th Anniversary. This is a little more tart than the first bottle I had, but still fantastic. This is an auto-buy if I ever see it on the shelf again. Really delicious.
If I remember right, this was a 2012 bottle. I assumed it would be terrible, but it was perfectly fine. I really enjoyed the bottle and wouldn't have guessed it was so old. Revolution is pretty great.
This is not a beer. This is a chicken sandwich from my favorite Columbus brewer - Wolf's Ridge brewing. Food and beers are both great.
2013 BCBS - This was really good. I randomly opened it on a weeknight, and I wasn't planning on being drunk, so I wish I had saved half of it for another night. Glad that this is still hanging on strong.
No idea how old this is. I thought it was terrible and dumped it down the sink. However, I'm pretty sure I thought it was terrible fresh, so I don't think this was an aging issue.
Another Fantome whatever - this tasted just like a standard Saison from them, and I have no idea what's supposed to make this distinctive. That being said, Fantome is great when it's good (it's high variance), and this was good. So it was great.
OG 2010-2011 Tilquin - I was a little nervous considering the recent relative disappointment with the Tilquin squared. But this was amazing, among the best bottles I've had.
Fin