What beer trend will dominate 2020?

Designer malts. new hops varieties. Designer yeasts.
Lagers, I hope and I'd personally like to see Altbiers rise, I know, right? It's an ale but with lager ingredients! Tasty! Okay, I doubt that is going to happen.
Lagers become the new trend for 2020.

 

And it is a hybrid beer in that undergoes a lagering phase once primary fermentation is complete. I have a homebrewed Altbier that is completing it's primary soon so lagering will commence in a couple of days.

Yeah, unfortunately I agree with this statement. There are a few small, local breweries near me that produce Altbiers (I drank a draft pint at Tired Hands a couple of weeks ago) but this is indeed not a popular style for craft breweries.

Cheers!

 

I had an Altbier last night at Gizmo Brewery in Raleigh NC, I was very impressed with their beer, but also the style.
I'd love to see breweries take on Altbier and Table beers in 2020.
As you said though, sometimes you just have to make the beer you want to drink.
Good luck with your Homebrew.

 

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Are OMB (Olde Mecklenburg Brewery) beers available to you? They produce a high quality Altbier IMO: Copper Altbier.

I discussed this beer in a past New Beer Sunday thread:

https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/new-beer-sunday-week-574.388204/#post-4532126

Cheers!

 

I wish I could say lagers would be the next trend, but with hazy ipa releases still selling out over the weekend, I highly doubt it. It would be magnificent to see a brewery post a double release of a Helles and Dopplebock, and see the same reaction that the hazy ipa’s get!

 

As a big fan of Lagers and Helles in particular, I just don't see it unfortunately. Why? Is a good Helles THAT much better than a cheaper, well done AAL? It's just not the wide gap that you can see with an AAL vs a great IPA or some other beer styles.

 

Bubbly juicy IPAs.

 

Not Brut IPA

 

Beer cocktails

 

I agree here, a good AAL isn't going to taste significantly different than a Helles from a craft brewery (to the average beer drinker) but the price is going to be significantly different. So unless craft breweries are going to be selling 6 packs of lagers for $7-8, gonna be hard for that to become a trend, imo. Paying $12-14 per 4-pack of a 5% lager isn't something most people are going to see as a good value.

 

Plus aluminum cans are lighter than glass (less weight per volume can’t hurt shipping costs) and I imagine the packaging is probably cheaper than cardboard containers with printed advertisements (especially if they aren’t using those hard plastic can holders)

 

FIFY

 

Beer cocktails (like frozen/icee-like additions to beer)
Freshness of grain and hops

 

Gonna have a hard time convincing people to pay premium (craft) prices for a craft version of Mich Ultra.

This is where I'd put my money, seltzers. Seltzers will trend upwards and session IPAs will trend the opposite. Ciders will lose market share to the seltzers also.

Craft is gonna take a hit from macros breweries in 2020.

 

Agreed that lager styles are due for a renaissance. However, I voted for the hazy IPAs as I see this trend continuing & I'm a fan myself though there isn't a whole lot of variation they are either milkshake/puree style or juicy/clean.

The lager push has to be a BA crowd thing, the trend that I see that is even above & beyond the "haze craze" is the sours/fruited sours trend that I can't believe didn't merit a place on the list w/the amount of OTT love I seem to see this style achieving among brewers & drinkers in the last 2-3 yrs.
Mind you I have no interest in this style in the least as I just don't have the stomach for sours save for the occasional gose, flanders red ale or berliner weisse. I just can't imagine who's sucking down sours all night.

 

I...will allow it.

 

Many of these 'sours' are sours in name only. They are loaded to the gills with fruit, spices, vanilla, and other add-junks to the point of having no semblance to what you or I (or most other BAs that actually appreciate sours) would consider a sour.

I'm not entirely joking in thinking they're about half a step away from sourness being considered a flaw in the taste profile.

 

When were biere de gardes readily available on tap?

 

Thank you for the heads up as I will certainly look for it.
Are OMB (Olde Mecklenburg Brewery) beers available to you? They produce a high quality Altbier IMO: Copper Altbier.

I discussed this beer in a past New Beer Sunday thread:

https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/new-beer-sunday-week-574.388204/#post-4532126

Cheers![/QUOTE]

 

I counted four plus doors dedicated to varied alcopop at my local Walmart today. And they make money on it! I could say it is a shame, but I think it's a generational shift with once again easy to drink soda-like beverages. How this relates to really good beer I would suppose to be a statement about changing market share.