craft beer: the bubble is about to pop

Just wow... wrote:

Rich Piana wrote:

You like a craft beer... cool, glad you like it. However, the number of hipster douchebags this craft beer bubble has created is nauseating. Most of the craft beer bars should just change their names to Douche City as that is the accurate description of what's going on inside, guaranteed. I'll be happy when the fad fades... it's held on for far too long.

So what is it that's going on in there exactly? Are these guys something like the wine connoisseur crowd?

I don't know. Just shit up and give me some Hamms, some Keith Urban, and some Cracker Barrel and leave me alone. #MAGA

whatcom wrote:

I think there will be a shift away from overly hopped beers. what's the point of having 3,000 independent breweries if 90% of them are riffing off the same beer. I expect the breweries that do best are the ones that start adding more Pilsners and Belgium style beers to the mix......which in fact might lead to craft beer growing even more. Strongly hopped beers are a love/hate kind of beer.......most people can enjoy a well made pilsner, even though some won't admit it for fear of losing beard cred.

bretts might be the new IPA in 5 years

The problem is that people are not going to pay $10 for a 6-pack of 4.5% pilsner. And the unfiltered and wheat stuff is just not ever going to be a hit. Cloudy beer is a turnoff.

#fakenews

Rich Piana wrote:

You like a craft beer... cool, glad you like it. However, the number of hipster douchebags this craft beer bubble has created is nauseating. Most of the craft beer bars should just change their names to Douche City as that is the accurate description of what's going on inside, guaranteed. I'll be happy when the fad fades... it's held on for far too long.

Dang, bro. Did a hipster douchebag bang your boyfriend? Haha

Rich Piana wrote:

You like a craft beer... cool, glad you like it. However, the number of hipster douchebags this craft beer bubble has created is nauseating. Most of the craft beer bars should just change their names to Douche City as that is the accurate description of what's going on inside, guaranteed. I'll be happy when the fad fades... it's held on for far too long.

+1

Say what you will about that weird gym-bro, Paul Ryan; at least he drinks cheap piss-water instead of hop-infused piss-water.

Gravy wrote:

Rich Piana wrote:

You like a craft beer... cool, glad you like it. However, the number of hipster douchebags this craft beer bubble has created is nauseating. Most of the craft beer bars should just change their names to Douche City as that is the accurate description of what's going on inside, guaranteed. I'll be happy when the fad fades... it's held on for far too long.

Dang, bro. Did a hipster douchebag bang your boyfriend? Haha

Yeah, it's always interesting when someone declares their superiority over someone else by complaining how someone else thinks they are superior.

The Obvious Answer wrote:

sdfasdfasdfdf wrote:

You heard it here first.

The expansion has been similar to golf courses in the 1990s. Unsustainable. Expect major contraction shortly.

Carry on.

Would be no bad thing. A lot of craft beer is dreadful.

What are several dreadful ones you've had lately?

Trump2020OP wrote:

President Trump doesn't drink. This is one of the many reasons why the lefty liberal commie pinko snowflake weirdo anarchist God haters don't like him.

MAGA

Trump doesn't drink because he is overweight and vain.

But wait, I thought abstaining from alcohol was just for Islamic terrorists and untrustable commie pinkos.

Repubtards. So much cognitive dissonance.

HardLoper wrote:

Ho Hum wrote:

This nonsense is why the "bubble" isn't about to pop. There are tons of non-IPAs, and every brewery I've been to has had at least a Pilsner/Lager/Cider drink on tap. Just about everyone (at least out East, dunno about Seattle) has a good selection of lighter, session-y beers.

Not true in Seattle unfortunately. Most micro beer menus are 90% IPAs, double IPAs, session IPAs, APAs, "NWPAs," and maybe one porter or stout that just isn't very good. In Michigan or out East it is better.

Sorry to hear that. I like a good IPA every once in a while, but I really have to be in the mood for it. I'm definitely over the all-IPAs-all-the-time thing.

A local place in my area has started making a really good copper ale. That has become my go-to local brew recently.

im not a huge beer fan but sierra nevada otra vez is so damn good. i encourage you all to tey it

As long as they still make PBR and Natty Light I'm in bidness..

I find it amusing when people say "craft beer is dreadful" or something similar. I've heard my dad say "craft beer is too strong."

IPAs are all the rage so if you don't look hard, that's all you'll see. In actuality, there are plenty of great Amber ales, lagers, pilsners, Belgians and now sours, available everywhere. Tell me what state you're in and I'll point you to some great craft beer in whatever style you like.

Really stupid comparison. Enough people just didn't play golf, so you're predicting that people will stop drinking alcohol? They should, but, on what basis do you see this happening? Average beer consumption hasn't increased with the proliferation of microbreweries, the only thing that really changed is what beer they drink. It's not like everyone used to golf on one course which was boring and shitty, then switched to golfing at a variety of new better courses, then all decided to go back to their old boring shitty course. People aren't going to suddenly decide they really prefer drinking shitty flavorless beer and switch back to PBR.

sdfasdfasdfdf wrote:

The expansion has been similar to golf courses in the 1990s. Unsustainable. Expect major contraction shortly.

And the companies & craft beer fans will blame it on the "big" business beers like Anheuser, Sierra Nevada etc.

The problem I have with craft beer is it's too dang expensive for what you get. Sure, I like it better but whenever I go to a store it's hard to stare at the fridge & see the prices of a 6 pack of local craft beer & then see I could get a 12 pack of PBR for almost the same. Unless there's a big sale, I almost always walk out with PBR. Better value

beer state of the world wrote:

sdfasdfasdfdf wrote:

The expansion has been similar to golf courses in the 1990s. Unsustainable. Expect major contraction shortly.

And the companies & craft beer fans will blame it on the "big" business beers like Anheuser, Sierra Nevada etc.

The problem I have with craft beer is it's too dang expensive for what you get. Sure, I like it better but whenever I go to a store it's hard to stare at the fridge & see the prices of a 6 pack of local craft beer & then see I could get a 12 pack of PBR for almost the same. Unless there's a big sale, I almost always walk out with PBR. Better value

If you drink beer for the taste, say have two pints at a brewpub, or buy a six pack of craft beer that lasts for a month in the fridge before being finished, then it is a good value.

Some of us don't drink just to get hammered. So buying less expensive, crap beer isn't necessary.

sdfasdfasdfdf wrote:

You heard it here first.

The expansion has been similar to golf courses in the 1990s. Unsustainable. Expect major contraction shortly.

Carry on.

I think we are barely back to the same number of breweries as pre prohibition and there were way less people back then. There's still plenty of room to add more

HardLoper wrote:

Ho Hum wrote:

This nonsense is why the "bubble" isn't about to pop. There are tons of non-IPAs, and every brewery I've been to has had at least a Pilsner/Lager/Cider drink on tap. Just about everyone (at least out East, dunno about Seattle) has a good selection of lighter, session-y beers.

Not true in Seattle unfortunately. Most micro beer menus are 90% IPAs, double IPAs, session IPAs, APAs, "NWPAs," and maybe one porter or stout that just isn't very good. In Michigan or out East it is better.

Its better out east for non-IPA styles as hops are not as abundant as they are in the PNW

I think The Show would disagree.

I feel like super-hoppy every beer is an IPA actually peaked (again, at least around me) about five years ago.

Just about every microbrewery around me has a wide variety of beers. Even among the IPAs it seems like the focus has shifted from super-hoppy to things like grapefruit IPAs (I'm not a fan). I mean sure, there are still plenty of IPAs but I believe the variety has gotten wider.

I do sometimes wonder if the bubble will burst. I wonder how many craft brewers our little town can support long term. But as long as they keep opening them, I will keep supporting them.