Do you suffer from pathalogical special release hoarding?

Imagine this scenario; it's the year 2043 and you're 60 years old. Your children are grown and have long since moved out of your house. They don't like to visit you, because there is nowhere to sit, barely any room to walk, and the bathtub is full. You don't like to leave your house, what if someone steals your treasures?

The bad news comes; social services warns that the house is a safety hazard and you must throw everything out, or risk losing your house. What will you do with your 1,312 bottles of Founders KBS, 598 Dark Lords (not including the various specialty versions), even those 3 Westy 12s that you never drank because who knows when you'd see it again, along with the countless other craft beer bottles you've picked up over the decades?

That's right people, I'm talking about special release hoarding and although it may not be as serious as your typical rubbish hoarding, it is something that many craft beer drinkers have struggled with.

Rewind 32 years, back to 2011, not terribly long after a recent special release, which many across the midwest and beyond were having difficulty finding. I was able purchase 6 bottles through various connections, about 1 or 2 bottles at a time over several weeks. With each bottle I purchased, I thought to myself "This is the last time I'm going to see this beer from this year, and it may never be brewed again. What if I drink a bottle and release I missed out on getting more?" Only 3 cases of this beer made it to area bottle shops; that's 36 bottles for you math majors.

And then my moment of weakness. I had been occasionally shopping at this little out of the way store, tucked amongst people who apparently don't obsess over craft beer like we do here in the South Bend area. They'll sit on bottles forever it seems like, and I knew to give them a call. Did they have what I was looking for? You're damn right they did... an entire case! Where the hell are my keys, the kids are old enough to stay home alone, right? I have to get up there. I WILL own that case.

Rational thought set in before anything crazy happened, and no, I would never have left my kids home alone at this age. But seriously, for a moment I really wanted to buy more. Instead of giving in to special release hoarding, I will separately post what the beer is, and where to find it.

I'm certainly not alone on this one. I've heard stories of people pulling a gollum; driving to a dozen stores to buy up as much Founders KBS as possible, sometimes even stumbling into a store willing to sell them an entire case. People will buy up as many 3 Floyds Dark Lord Day tickets as they can just to get 10 or 20 bottles of Dark Lord. The anecdotes could go on for ever, all over the country.

Beer geeks can get a little crazy sometimes.

Have you ever come across a special release (Big John, KBS, Dark Lord, Parabola, Darkness, Blushing Monk, BCBS etc) that you just wanted to hoard the hell out of? Post your moment of weakness, because I can surely relate.