Word. Picked up a 12’er before Halloween! 8)
Damn good stuff. I look forward to it every year.
Hot dog! That is great news! Thanks for the heads-up! Woo hoo!! Yeah, baby! The holidays are upon us.
I’m going to pick up a case or two of celebration this season! And I know just where to get them. …
I went looking for celebration today. I found 2012 Celebration at two stores! No 2013. I am in Mississippi so we get beer late, but, 2012?! I am wondering if that has been sitting on the shelf for a year or if the buyer at the beer store got snookered.
Yep, the guy at the store either got taken, or he was hoping to take you ! It’s really good, but a year past and I would pass.
Wow…I totally disagree.
I hope you bought some of that 2012. Celebration is my favorite commercial IPA, bar none. I always pick some up when it first comes out and I love it…but I also love it when it’s from the previous year and usually pick some of that up as well whenever I see it.
Celebration is really top notch even when it’s a year old.
No question it changes with age, but most definitely not in a bad way.
I wasn’t saying it would be undrinkable, just that I wouldn’t spend the $$ on year old Celebration, especially when I can get this year’s. I’ve at one time had almost a decade of SN Bigfoot cellared for vertical tasting ( and many other beers, for that matter). But I guess that’s where we part thinking - drinking IPA fresh vs aged. I found a bottle of last year’s Celebration in the back of the fridge 4 or 5 months after I bought it, still plenty drinkable, but nowhere near as good as fresh IMO. IPA is about
HOPS, and they fade quickly in a standard IPA - undeniably !! But I respect your right to drink it as you like it. 
Celebration 2013 has been in the stores here for almost a month now. Working on my third case (many shared with Thanksgiving guests).
Gonna have to take your word on the year-old Celebration Professor. Mine seldom makes it past Super Bowl Sunday. ;D
Dollars-wise it’s going for $7.50/sixpack here.
That too, man. Can’t imagine it lasting that long !
Love this beer. Will be picking up some myself. Last year I bought a 12-pack. I think I’ll do the same.
Just picked up a case yesterday. I love this beer. It’s not easy to find when you live down the road from Yuengling.
Definitely a great beer and I buy it every year. However, I’ve got to agree with Sean. My memory is that it is different now. Very possibly, we’re exposed to so many great IPAs now that it seems less outstanding.
When I first discovered it, probably late 80’s or early 90’s, it was on tap for the holidays at a little dive bar across from the original Summit brewhouse. It was not anywhere near where I normally went in my daily travels, but I remember detouring on my way home, or even sneaking out of work to go grab a pint. That stuff would literally call to me across the miles…come…I’m here, and I obeyed. ;D
If you tell SN, they’ll kick the distributor’s ■■■■. That isn’t supposed to happen.
Diane, you may have changed, but Celebration hasn’t!
I think it has changed over the years. Several years ago, just for that one season, it was way hoppier than the usual Celebration. I think maybe they borrowed Sam Calagione’s Randal to brew it with that year. I thought it was their best vintage yet, but apparently not everyone agreed. Several people I spoke to about it didn’t like it being that hoppy. I sure did though.
Celebration season is my favorite time of the year. I’m not a fan of the spiced and fruited holiday offerings, but the big winter warmers are always a treat.
Is Yuengling like a killer strain of yeast or something - out-propagating all competition? 
I’m pretty sure Steve Dressler said on Can You Brew It that it had changed way back when, since Centennial hops weren’t available when they first brewed it. But they haven’t changed it since they made that change to the hop schedule.
I think we’ve been over this in another thread. I know for a fact, from people at the brewery who I trust, that the recipe hasn’t changed in years.
I don’t know how long they’ve been brewing it, but Centennial has been around since at least 96-97. Although it wasn’t called Centennial back then.