"Crafty" brewers coming on strong?

I've had a few Redhook Longhammers and like it pretty good, decent dry-hopped ipa deal. never had the audible though.

I was also pretty dissapointed with leinenkugels hoppin helles, but have heard lots of good things about their Sunset Wheat.

Straub?

 

I think people here take on beer consumption as a political statement. Most people in the world are just drinking for fun. If you have a political agenda and want to boycott Bud, that seems perfectly fine to me. I suggest you go out to the streets and do it, yelling and protesting and doing loud stuff. If you wanted me to think you are coherent, you would not just target Bud and Miller, nor just breweries, but ALL large corporations. Not buying their product is cool and all, but it will not put them out of business. Not soon at least.

And yet, while I do not agree with that radical stance, I respect those people who protest. However, it seems like those that are out calling out crafty brewers because they want inefficient people to have jobs in abandoned towns are implying that if I buy from AbInbev I am selling out. Hey, I'm just out to buy good beer.
In general, I like efficiency and good beer. If good beer is being produced by a massive company, giving me a wider selection and a cheaper price, I will tend to buy it. I will also, sometimes support local breweries making good beers, and will even pay a premium for it. However, not all my actions have a political agenda.

Craft vs crafty seems to me like a stupid debate. It should be tasty vs tasteless.

 

Not a defense here, and I get where you're coming from but...
More and more people, fueled by information and exposure generated by websites such as the one that we are on right now, request, nay demand, that they have access to more and more beers that were formerly 'local'.

Whose distribution network do you think carries those beers to us?

 

It's because A-B knows Blue Moon is a better product and they're are using price to grab market share.

 

"However, Pilsner Urquell is hosting recurring events at which the unfiltered version of their Pilsener lager is served from wooden barrels, perhaps probing the German beer market to see if it is ready for an unfiltered, more intensely hop-forward Pilsener."

Sounds good to me!

Cheers!