Anyone else tired of Craft Beer?

Best thing with beer slow cooked lamb gyro.

 

I need a modelo right now

 

I love craft beer! So much variety is available today that you can buy what you like. I consider this the "golden age" of brewing.

I love IPAs, but I walked into a grocery store while visiting my sister, and 3/4 of the craft beers were IPAs. I decided at that point that I would not buy another IPA until the popularity died down. I want to see more variety in stores.

I prefer dark brews, such as stouts, porters, and even dark lagers. If all else fails, I can always find Guinness (one of my all time favorites), but I always look for products from smaller breweries.

As Al Bundy said, "Don't tax beer!"

Drink free!

 

I agree other than it seems to have become follow the leader. I used to like IPA's, dont really care for them now. Dont dislike them, just dont care for the race to the hoppiest known to man. Same way with alcohol contents, the race to the highest is not something I am interested in. If I am in a brewpub, I still try a porter or brown ale if they got it, a german style kolsch or an american lager still interests me but I have grown weary of all the farmhouse ales, IPA and fruit beers. It's not my bag.

What ever someone wants is fine, but it amuses me when "connoisseurs" declare the big brands crap beer or whisky. It may not be a flavor they care for, but it is ignorance of the process to call it crap. Anytime you can buy a beer and drive across the country and buy another and they taste identical, it aint crap! Anytime last years taste like this years, it aint crap. As someone else said, when you get a variance or they sell a beer thats flat or off, well thats crap beer or whisky.

As for me, I drink what I drink, and what I drink depends on who I am with and where I am drinking it. I dont pick a 6% or 8% on a 100 degree day while fileting fish at a fish cleaning station, on a 100 degree day, thats prime location for a Corona, Tecate, PBR or Coors. Those taste great pulled out of the bottom of an ice filled cooler on a blistering day. Give me the stronger stuff in the winter when I may stop at two.

Most times I just buy shiner for the fridge. But what I drink at Thanksgiving or Christmas with family, is not what I drink on the 4th of July, which is not what I drink when going out to eat with my wife.

 

Digging this out of the grave, but this mind set is what allows shitty micros to exist. It would be hard to find something mass produced as bad as stuff some of the micros sell/sold (yegua creek brewing, which is why they shuttered the joint 20 years ago).

After you have torn the front spoiler off Enzo's masterpiece on the curb in front of Costco when picking up a jumbo pack of diapers a few times you wont ask that question. LMAO

 

LOL I would NEVER take my Ferrari to Costco for Diapers. Maybe a case of Bud Light but never diapers.

 

When I drink beer, I usually have it in my hand and taking regular sips on it. But I, as others here stick with the tried and true. I've done the craft beer thing, and my palate just doesn't like it. I like a smooth beer that goes down smooth. Not one I have to take a breath, then try to swallow it down. But I have noticed that it makes you look cool and sauve sitting with your sunglasses on top of your head, beer sitting on the table, getting warm, because it tastes like shyt, and you don't want to admit it. But you do look cool.

 

LMAO

There are some pretty good craft beers out there,

 

Exactly.

Some really really good beers. True to style. It's either some clever ass who pushes the boundary, or just a defect - sanitation, for example that leads to "bad" beer.

Craft beer as a name has also been blurred. Some former smaller breweries are now owned by the big guys. I just don't like the mass produced beers. Miller for example tastes really bad. But to others, it's what they are used to, so be it I don't care, drink what you like.

Anyway many people do only associate craft beer with PNW style IPA. Most of which I also find undrinkable. Why would anyone need a beer so damned bitter? And I am not a bitter hater by any means. Yeah there are a few clowns that drink them for show. Not me. Kulshan lagers all the way. Talk about regional, I don't think Kulshan even makes it out of Whatcom county. But I love an English mild or brown ale. Lovely beers.

 

I think we are past 100 breweries in the Dallas Fort Worth area. They arent all good, but they arent all bad.

Miller and the like arent loaded with flavor, but if you are at a fish fry and planning on drinking 5 or 6 over a couple of hours, they are a good choice. Six Dragon Stouts after a day on the flats tend to make a night more remembered by others than your self. A story about Dragon Stout, in the Bahamas on a fishing trip back in the early 80's, when ever someone ordered a Dragon Stout all the bar tenders and patrons would hold up their arm, make a fist, flex their muscle and say ya mon, your old lady be sore in the morning. LOL I can promise, after a half dozen Dragon Stouts you were more a threat to yourself than anybody's old lady.

It's what you are used to

 

I guess I'm biased because I love IPAs but the recent rise in the number of craft breweries in Alberta has been fantastic, in my opinion.

 

Oh noes, there's too many beers to chose from now. I's sad and gunna complain about it.

 

Land of beer here. Happy. Must self limit!

 

She wouldn’t be sore because of you.

 

This is why craft breweries make session ales.

 

1- Tecate original (red can)
2- Carta Blanca
3- Pacifico
4- What ever you can see through

I like beers intended for chillin’ and having good times with not a miserable hangover.

cheers!

 

I havent really found that many session brews to be much better than a Shiner or Sam Adams, just twice the money.

Too many dove off into 50-60 IBU and I really dont care for bitters in that concentration on a continuous basis. Not knocking craft beers, but mass produced has gotten better and craft seems to be chasing fads.

 

Always been of the mind, its more important who you are drinking with than what you are drinking.

 

False. Beers that are less than 50 IBU are boring and undrinkable.

 

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I can only imagine their porter being the one to try from them...

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