I like the smell of boiling beer and my wife & daugter do too. It smells sweet and the hops add a nice zing.
As Josh's article says, complex, high alcohol beers age better. A co-worker, who's into beer the way some people are into wine, buys some beers for aging at home and I think some are >15 years old now.
Many microbrews would improve with aging, but the breweries need the cash flow of immediate sales. Ommegang, my favorite brewery when I'm willing to drop $5 for a beer, ages some bottles in a cave every year and then sells them for ~3x the price. I've never tasted it because I'd rather buy three bottles and keep them in my basement. By the way, those beers run about 8-10% alcohol and are bottled in wine-size bottles. So each packs the alcohol of ~5 American beers.
My basement isn't a perfect aging spot, but never goes above the low 70s or below the mid 40s. And my beer is in dark bottles stored in cardboard boxes with only a little light coming in through a couple windows. But if some unauthorized bacteria or yeast make it into a bottle, the beer can go wrong over time. A former roommate excelled at brewing that way. Some bottles were bad from the beginning and others just took some time to go wrong. You can sometimes see they're bad because a light colored ring often forms on the bottle at the top of the beer.