07-30-2015, 10:43 AM
(07-30-2015, 10:20 AM)Benton Wrote: I don't buy into the whole craft beer style. It's annoying when you're with a group and one guy goes "Do you have Green Summer Pale Fish Moose Bladder on A Bicycle Ale? No? Oh, well then how about a New Iron Age Tomato Paste Vinaigrette Jet Plane Book Shelf Old Fired? No, ok, how about..."
And there's just as many crappy craft beers out there as there are Budweisers and Natty Lites.
But, with that said, there's a lot of really good, not watered down beers, too. Stuff that's just a basic, good tasting beer that will sometimes have a lot more flavor. I just wish they had a different approach for bringing them to the shelf outside of being trendy. And right now, that's what they are, trendy.
Hipsters that do that are obnoxious sure, but I'm not sure that has much do to with the craft beer itself. That would be like complaining about a certain kind of car just because the people that tend to drive them are douche bags.
If I'm out at a random restaurant, I ask if they have a beer list of any kind, and usually it will say "ask our servers for our craft selection!" or something along those lines, so I simply just do as it says and ask for their selection. I'm not going to sit there and rattle off my favorite, obscure beers that I already know they aren't going to have, I'd definitely agree with you that it would be annoying to do that.
There are definitely some bad craft beers, but a lot of people also think Blue Moon, Shock Top, and flavored root beer are "craft beer".
It would be like someone claiming that it's more manly to eat Little Caesars than to eat at a real New York pizzeria. Sure, it may be your taste (or budget or whatever other reasons), but there is obviously a "better" option, even though it is opinion based. I have a hard time calling most of the macros "beer", as they don't even have a real flavor profile, it's just awkward flavored water. There are a ton of pale lagers that are quality that taste great, but it doesn't make them girly for not having the AB InBev or MillerCoors stamp on it.
It may be trendy now, but a lot of us have been part of the craft community for quite a long time. My friends and I started drinking great beer as teenagers, and luckily, none of us have grown vaginas because of it. People can dislike the beer all they'd like, it just leaves more for me! The issue I have is with the chauvinistic shit.
