Craft beer is expensive, filling, and often challenging (as far as taste goes). I feel like the point of beer is to enjoy something that is cold, cheap, and easy to drink. If I want something expensive and different I’ll get a craft cocktail.
Sorry to any brewers or enthusiastic.
Posted Sep 12, 2021, 9:47 PM UTC
Craft beer is fine it’s the people
Yeah. That’s the point I’m making with “the scene”. There are tons of craft beers I enjoy. I just don’t want to drink it or talk about it for a whole evening.
I think the point of a beer is to be cold and actually have taste.
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I wouldn't drink Bud for free. It's just awful.
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I would have to agree. I'm not much of a beer drinker though, I only like a few brands (hate Budwiser or other cheap American beer) and taste and ease of drink-ability is huge for me.
I am always seeing this big craze of people saying they only like craft beer, like it puts them in this cool category of drinkers. Support Craft Breweries. Why? If I don't like their beer, I'm not going to support them.
I have more of a problem with the culture behind scene than I do with the craft beer itself though.
Here’s another reason it’s dumb to say “support craft breweries”: the macro breweries, especially AB-InBev pay the highest wages in the industry.
I know a few people who work at a Bud plant. $75k base pay with loads of ot available but not required, up to 8 weeks vacation after 10 years, no cost health insurance, and a fat pension plus matching 401k.
That’s the kind of company Americans should be supporting.
I've gotten about halfway through the Maine beer trail this year. I feel no need to finish it. After trying enough beers eventually you realize which styles you like and there is only so much variation within that style. An imperial stout is an imperial stout. A hazy IPA is a hazy IPA. A kolsch is a kolsch. There is no need to drive to the opposite side of the state just to discover that Brown Ale # 140 tastes much like Brown Ale # 139.
I agree but it more the people much like with wine
I agree that it’s the pretentious dipsticks, not craft beer itself.
I don’t understand why they think it’s their duty to ‘educate’ the masses about craft beer.
Craft beer is a crime against people that like beer. These beers show up at a bar tasting like toxic waste and costing an arm and a leg and people drink it to show off. Then the bar says well fuck, we can raise the price of a regular beer by a dollar now because sitting next to the $8 12oz it doesn’t look so bad. Dudes, it’s just rotten bread water it shouldn’t cost more than a dollar.
Beer is at it's best when consumed on certain specific occasions: watching a baseball game, fishing, mowing the lawn, bowling, eating tacos.
Beer is not meant to be consumed in a trendy downtown spot, whilst discussing beard oils and vintage stereo equipment with a guy named Tyler.
You should have written my post for me. This is exactly it. Lol
Beer snobs are the worst.
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Tend to agree. Most craft beers go way overboard on the hops to the point where it tastes like I'm drinking someone's freshly mowed lawn. I'll take a nice American style lager any day.
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I mean, when New Glarus’ Spotted Cow and Moon Man exist, there’s really no reason for other breweries to even try.
I appreciate good things, I can always toss out good suggestions, but people who think it's cool and get way to enthusiastic need to sit down shut up and have a drink.
How dare you share this horrible secret with anyone, even on the Internet. You monster!
I don’t like beer at all!! None of it. Dreadful stuff.
"Bro.. our newest batch is all hops. I feel bloated af and the alcohol content makes it taste like rat piss."
"Well we sank all of our college money into it, we have to sell it somehow...... I GOT IT!!! We'll call it..... craft"
Don't want more hops with your hops? This ones dry hopped with fresh hop infusion!
Craft beer is for 'edgy' people. It also tastes like shit and gives you the worst fucking hangover.
I’m fine with craft beer. What I have a problem with is the craft beer crowd beer snobbery.
Budweiser is not the “piss water” that all the craft beer snobs call it. Bud and Bud light are 2 of the top 5 biggest selling beers on earth because that’s what most people want in a beer.
THANK YOU
100%. I love craft beer but I also love me some Coors or PBR. Snobby beer drinkers are lame af.
I hate Budweiser, bud, bud light, etc because it taste almost like water. However I hate IPA because hoppy taste is bitter and revolting. I'm good with Heineken, Stella, corona, style beers. These are the real beers
Budweiser has my heart.
Coors banquet.
Definitely drank that while watching cobra Kai! 😂
Think about like this McDonald’s sells the most burgers globally but it doesn’t mean they are the best burgers.
American and Chinese companies produce the most so they sell the most.
Lots of smaller Bavarian companies make far superior beer but they don’t produce so much so it will be impossible for them to be a top 5 biggest selling beer.
Imagine how lame it would be if people eating good quality burgers sat around talking shit about fast food while doing so.
If you’re into craft beer, by all means drink and enjoy it. There is no need to talk shit about the macrobrews that most people enjoy.
Talking shit about Budweiser and criticizing their business practices is particularly irksome to me because they pay the highest wages in the industry and make the most consistent beer in the world which is very difficult. You don’t have to like their beer but you have to give them props for making every can taste the same.
The big brewers can make beer taste any way they want. The reason Bud and Bud light taste the way they do is because that’s what sells.
Personally I don’t talk shit about macro breweries. Just highlighting the reason as to why Bud is one of the top sellers. Focus on production and global sales.
If craft brewers in America are annoying I get it - Americans tend to ruin everything
No that’s not why. America has large companies, so does China. That’s why the top 10 beers sold are from American and Chinese companies.
Europe has smaller scale companies that focus on quality - I love Augustiner Brau it’s by far my favourite beer but they don’t mass produce it to the extent of Americans so it will never never be the most sold beer.
There are some exceptions like Heineken and go figure it’s one of the most sold beers. To be the most sold beer you need to produce a lot.
So it comes down to marketing, mass production and business.
I'm not really a craft beer drinker of any kind but even I can tell you Budweiser is in fact piss water. So is Bud Light and Coors Light and Busch