Originally Posted By: Nickdfresh
Originally Posted By: SatinSilver
Originally Posted By: steveh
I had many great tasting craft beers in the 8-10% range.
Have you ever had a bad 8-10% beer?
I have. There are some rather boring attempts using pedestrian internet recipes by local breweries masquerading as some new groundbreaking brew. Just because it's a craft brew doesn't make it good and a lot of recipes are basic and readily available. Some breweries resort to gimmicks and are just making [censored]. I don't really want the Oreo-oatmeal-double fudge chocolate-raisin-sugar cookie house stout, FFS..
+1
We have come a long way in the last 20 years (in North America) from the bland generic gnats urine that was sold pretty well universally.
Today, thanks to micro breweries, we once again have choice what we drink.
Sure a lot of it is gimmicky, that will die out. There are so many differant GOOD recipes in the world, and variations that can be made upon them. We could well be heading for the Golden age of beer.
35 years ago in the UK I joined a group Campaign For Real Ale (CAMRA) to help support the few surviving small beweries from being swallowed up by the giants of this world.
I am so pleased what we started worked beyond what anybody expected! Not only did small breweries survive, the big berweries realized people wanted something other than Coors light and Lucky Larger, AND now we have micro breweries offering beers that rival wine in terms of variety of flavours.