You can age beers that were brewed to be aged.

You can age beers that were brewed to be aged.
by four pillars (2019-10-19 09:58:38)
Edited on 2019-10-19 09:59:31

In reply to: Questions on aging beer posted by 96_ND

Which is to say do not age beers that were intended to be consumed as fresh as possible...which is about 90% of them. If you put away a Bell’s Two Hearted for a couple years you’re going to be very disappointed when you finally open it up.

Typically beers that are high ABV, bottle conditioned, have lower hopping rates (hops oxidize pretty rapidly and throw off some funky flavors) and come from a brewery with stellar packaging processes. Which isn’t to say smaller/less sophisticated brewers can’t make a good beer for aging you just run a higher risk of bad things happening.