Memes

Looking at you New Belgium. How many damn IPA's do you need? "Cigarette butts in a can" all taste the same.

What is this, 2012?

I did a Sweet 16 bracket elimination contest for regional IPAs a few years back just to force myself to identify the 'good' ones and eliminate bad ones. Even after doing that, I do a little dance any time there's something else available.

Or sours, gross

I'm happy with the number of varieties of ciders and perris for sale here. And some nice wines, these days. Sometimes the trick is to switch from beer.

I feel you.

I brew my own beer just have a decent Munich style lager.

Still missing c/beerporn on lemmy! Anyone interested in creating it? :)

There is a local brewery here in Alabama that makes a beer called “Sour-Pash”. Does it have a lot of alcohol? No. Hops? No. Is it fucking delicious and refreshing? You god damn right.

I love this beer, and it’s always sold out when I go to buy it.

Thought I was on r/bartenders for a minute there :)

I like IPA and there's like 3-4 very distinct sort of IPAs. There's a imperial IPA from a local craft around me that's almost caramel dark and people might not enough call an IPA on a blind taste test.

But, I must agree it's kinda silly theres 2-3 IPAs in the craft section for every other type most places. I tend to buy the IPAs when I buy craft beer (outside of making a trip to the really big selection places) because the only other craft options are like "bland blonde #82 from probably owned by Budweiser brewery" or "ale that tastes like spoiled Newcastle". Sometimes they have dales pale ale in a few different labels for more money.

Craft beer has just become a shit show at retailers for me. No one carries any of the cans I like anymore. I have to go far out of my way to buy anything I actually want. Fortunately I live 15ish minutes from a downtown with a half dozen good breweries that have 10+ beers on tap year round. I'm not a bar/brewery person and I wish I could get cans to drink at home still though.

I like saisons and kettle sours, not always easy to find those

Wisconsin here and grocery stores here sell pretty much anything your alcoholic mind can think of

Never had a beer I liked, and EVERY SINGLE TIME a friend will tell me what they like is actually good "you can't even taste the beer flavor, just the blank" and every single time, it tastes like beer with no hint of the blank.

Wow, that sounds awful. Happy to live in a place where I can get good beers and a variety of them.

My local breweries have tons of options but the grocery stores only carry their IPAs and at most 1 other variety. Usually a blonde.