Is Beer Less Interesting, or Am I?

In some ways I see it as you can pretty much find any style of beer available nowadays locally. The overall distribution is better than ever. However, the best ones and the favorites in my opinion are still few and far between, which still makes the chase for better beer still fun.

 

No poll?

 

It's both


The beer scene is ASS.

Every POS major brewery is more or less owned by a conglomerate POS(banks, investors, your mom), everyone says "make lambic rare again" when its the shittiest liquid ever(fruits WTF...drink a smoothie you NECKBEARD), everyone is in Side Project LC and still complaining cuz they did a public sale for a trash ass syrupy beer but their limit was one, IPAs are dead bro , all stouts are adjuncted with diabetes, everyone has health problems and doesn't even workout, trading is only for like 5 breweries only with the same weirdos putting out ISO and FT(lmao at the guy tryina trade a 3 month old BA ipa for a NON ipa WTF)...... i can go on and on

Fuck beer and the scene.


I love you guys.

 

I admit I didn’t get very far into the blog/article. It started talking about it being harder to find something “new” in beer, and I’m sorry, but I don’t equate “new” with “interesting.” Give me a solid, well made beer of any style over something new or interesting any day. Now get the FUCK off my lawn

 

You’re just the same person with two accounts, right?

 

Drie Fonteine, or whatever the fuck , lambic and geuze,are SHELF TURDS here . I can take you somewhere that has 2017- now vintages if you want them,although the NECKBEARDS and Coffee Shop Turtleneck and designer glasses Hipsters eat up cantillon.


And FWIW, in Mexico Lindo i was paying $6+ for singles of the Imperial Stouts...idk about the inferior country you mention( the maple hockey people/Terrance and Phillip)

 

For me I love a good IPA. But I find myself buying less craft beer than I use to because of prices. You buy two four packs of pints sometimes it comes out close to $40 bucks when I can get 2 for $2.20 BUD ICEs at the Casey’s around the corner of my house. It’s still good and the beer is good but spending so much money on beer to catch a buzz hits the wallet. I’ll get a pack a week I want to try then after that ICE beers or mass produced BUD,Miller,Coors. It’s not less interesting to me. It’s just so damn expensive.

 

Depends on the brewery and the beer. Some 4 packs are $20 some are $11. But still the fact remains. I can get a 12 pack of Revolution Anti-Hero for $22 or 3 BUD ICE 25oz cans for under $5. I get the quality of the beer is better but still a $5 buzz is a $5 buzz.

 

To me, it's as interesting as it ever was. The journey itself is the destination. The joy lies in the discoveries you make along the way.

Okay, enough with the waxing philosophical. I'm going to have a lambic now.

 

I view our current era of craft beer as being the pinnacle.

Unfortunately, it’s only a matter of time before the economy goes tits up (it’s already pretty fucking shaky) and the number of breweries plummet, or even worse, the beer consuming population starts to die off. When the last Boomers and Gen Xers leave the workforce, the craft beer industry is going to have to almost completely rely upon Millennials to produce craft beer. Gen Zer’s seem to generally lack interest in alcohol and seem especially unenthusiastic about craft beer. Generation Alpha will probably be too young to even legally drink!

I live in an area with good distribution and a small number of consistent local breweries pumping out great beers. I have nearly endless options of new beers weekly from around the west coast. That’s all I need.

 

I miss all the British and Belgian style beers from 12-15yo. How often do you see a Scotch ale or a barleywine that isn't Bigfoot anymore? Much less dubbels. I will say that the average quality of what you see on shelves tends to be better.

 

Does Oskar Blues still make Old Chub??
I used to drown in that shit

 

I feel like I still see (and buy) a fair amount of barleywines, particularly English (style). Belgians may have thinned but the staples (Duvel, Westmalle, Orval, Dupont, Chimay etc.) are still everywhere.

 

OP asked if we were at some stage in the natural arc of things and your answer is spot on, the jaded stage, Our true enjoyment and appreciation of this wealth of riches has become a jaded sort of agony brought about by our taking such easy access to greatness and variety completely for granted combined with a crazy longing for what we already have.