According to Mark Dredge (@markdredge), who knows a thing or two about his beer, two major tell-tale signs of Beer Geekism are:

1. When you have a cool, dark cupboard (far from a radiator or the cold of the garage) to keep your beer at optimum storage temperature.
2. When you take photos of your beer.

So, combining those two symptoms must surely elevate the Beer Geek to new levels of shamelessness, no? Andy Mogg (@chilliupnorth) showed me his via Twitter this morning, and now, I’m showing everyone mine (and not for the first time, I know…):

That’s just the main beer cupboard though, including the massed ranks of BrewDog (left and centre), the bulk of a Rare Belgians case that I bought a few months ago from BeerMerchants.com in the middle-right, and a few recent Tesco purchases on the far-right there, including a pack of Flying Dogs. Oh, and a Theakston’s gift pack I picked up in Masham a while back.

But that’s not all, folks. Thanks to the current Sainsbury’s Real Ale Promo, plus my Dad’s beer-bearing visit on Monday, there’s currently an overflow section that’s loitering at the far end of the dining table, making the place look untidy:

And then there’s the special beer cupboard, where I’ve put a few particularly choice items away to mature for a while (I suspect a few of those Belgians will find their way into the special cupboard before too long). No photos of that one, though. They’re all a bit camera-shy…

What about our fellow Beer Geeks? Got any good pics of your bottle stash? Post them on Flickr or TwitPic, send a link to @blogobeer (or email them to me via darren [at] blogobeer [dot] com) and I’ll post the links at the end of this post.

Because yes, I really am that Beer Geeky. And deep down inside, you know you are too…

Update

A couple of those beer cupboard shots:

• Andy Mogg has a very fine beer cupboard indeed.
• Mark Dredge has posted his ‘specials‘ selection.