New Badge: Barrel-Aged Beer Day (2026)

Happy Barrel-Aged Beer Day!

🗓️ Each year, on the first Friday of October, we honor the time, patience, and devotion that define this cherished tradition.

🪵 Beer can lie in barrels for years, biding its time until the perfect moment arrives for it to be enjoyed—and that kind of dedication is nothing to bark at. From foeders to spent spirits barrels to new French Oak barrels, barrel aging is vast.

✅ Check-in (1) beer from any of the styles commonly involved in barrel-aging from October 2nd to Sunday, October 11th, to unlock the 2026 Barrel Aged Beer Day badge.

📝 For this specific badge, you may find barrel-aged beers across a number of different styles on Untappd! In order to be as inclusive as we could, we'd like to acknowledge the following styles can, but may not always, be barrel-aged: Altbier (Sticke, Traditional), Barleywine (American, English, Other), Belgian Dubbel, Belgian Tripel, Belgian Quad, Belgian Strong Dark Ale, Belgian Strong Golden Ale, Bière de Champagne, Bock (Doppelbock, Eisbock, Hell/Maibock/Lentebock, Single, Weizenbock, Weizendoppelbock), Brown Ale (American, Belgian, English, Imperial, Other), Brett Beer, Dark Ale, Farmhouse Ale (Bière de Coupage, Bière de Garde, Bière de Mars, Brett, Grisette, Kornøl, Other, Sahti, Saison), Historical Beer (Kentucky Common), Lager (Amber, American, American Light, American Pre-Pro, Dark, Export, Helles, IPL, Japanese Rice, Leichtbier, Mexican, Munich Dunkel, Other, Pale, Polotmavé, Rotbier, Smoked, Strong, Světlé, Tmavé, Vienna, Winter), Lambic (Faro, Framboise, Fruit, Geueze, Kriek, Traditional, Other), Pumpkin/Yam, Scotch Ale/Wee Heavy, Rye Wine, Sour (Flanders Oud Bruin, Flanders Red Ale), Old Ale/Stock Ale, Porter (American, Baltic, Coffee, English, Imperial, Imperial Baltic, Imperial Coffee, Other, Smoked), Stout (American, Belgian, Coffee, English, Export, Imperial, Imperial Coffee, Imperial Milk/Sweet, Imperial Oatmeal, Imperial Pastry, Irish Dry, Milk/Sweet, Oatmeal, Other, Oyster, Pastry, White/Golden), Strong Ale (American, English, Other), Table Beer, Wild Ale (American, Other), Winter Ale, or Winter Warmer.

🤔 If you're stumped as to how we missed one, give it a shout out at @untappd.