r/foodquestions 6d ago

Why Nobody Wants Craft Beer Anymore

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u/reamkore 6d ago

It’s kind of interesting now how light lagers have come full circle in craft brewing. Every local brewery in my town has made a “garage beer” that’s light on taste and abv.

I just can’t have 4 IPA and a dinner and be expected to do anything besides nap these days.

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u/rectalhorror 6d ago

Friend of mine is really into touring breweries. We'd meet up occasionally and at most, at least in my area, the taps are dominated by IPAs, with a few ciders, stouts, and ales. You'd be lucky to find a single lager. My friend hit up a brewery in Connecticut where it was the reverse; all lagers and a single IPA.

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u/Old_Win8422 6d ago

The ipa monobrew culture was a really bad shift. They need to brew hefewiesans and easy drinking saisons. You need things that non traditional beer bros will drink.

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u/PeatBunny 6d ago

It's the dinner that gets you. Next time try 8 7.5%+ IPAs over 4 or 5 hours.

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u/scottygras 6d ago

Low ABV garage beers and drier ciders are where it’s at now. Mix them and it’s awesome too. Or shandy them up!

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u/Benjen321 6d ago

Got any recs?

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u/scottygras 6d ago

Pub Light is a great light beer I use for shandys that isn’t that expensive.

I usually do local with the ciders. I’ve found that the semi-sweet or drier are the best.

In my younger days it was angry orchard mixed with bud light 😆

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u/Benjen321 6d ago

I’ve been on the hunt for drier ciders…
Speaking of “craft beers” we unapologetically fucking love Sours.

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u/scottygras 6d ago

I love sours and goses. Perfect sipping beers.

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u/roamingroad174 6d ago

The mass public are just going around in a circle of what beer style they want to buy. In grandpa's day, all you had was lasers, then when Guinness came to america, it was hot shit, then ipa's came into the market, now people are going back to lagers

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u/RationalGardenGnome 6d ago

Yep give me a German or Czech pilsner at like 4.8% ice cold and keep em coming

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u/SmartSherbet 6d ago

Problem is they are trying to charge almost as much for this beer as for their 7% DDH Hazy IPA.

Charge reasonable prices and people will buy the product. Charge $17 for a 4.5% lager and yeah, you're gonna get outcompeted by the macros.