A beer style that introduced you to craft beer, and now you can't stand?

[Dirt_McGirt]

Amber ales...well, most of them at least. Back then, they had just enough flavor to be accessible. Now most of them seem bland and generic.

Same here. They were a gateway beer style for me at first, but I quickly found other styles I liked more.

More recently, I've been trying ambers and similar styles trying to give them another chance as I develop my palate a bit more.

 

[Wiscohio_brewer]

Spotted Cow. First time I drank it, I thought it was delicious, now I only drink it when I'm at a Milwaukee dive bar and the only other beer is Miller Lite.

 

[pat10323]

Spotted Cow. First time I drank it, I thought it was delicious, now I only drink it when I'm at a Milwaukee dive bar and the only other beer is Miller Lite.

So are there a lot of Wisconsin ppl who are sick of spotted cow?...I love it but I also live in Illinois so it's a treat every couple months when I get a 12er

 

[masskrug]

Easy....Fat Tire.

+1 to this.

 

[Peruvian802]

I was lucky enough to live in Seattle starting in 1991. Mirror Pond and Bridgeport from Portland as well as the old Red Hook, Maritime, and Grants brewery beers were all readily available. Life was good.

 

[mesooohoppy]

Probably blue moon

 

[howamidriving]

IPA's and pales. I remember having my mind blown by SNPA and then going on an IPA craze for a while. For whatever reason I pretty much never drank hop forward beers for a good 5 years not long after that. I am starting to get back into hoppy stuff now though.

 

[MaxStout]

Long before the craft beer boom all we had as an alternative to BMC was import beer. I drank a lot of Heineken, Beck's, Moose Head, etc., in the '70s and '80s. Once in a great while I'll still order one in a restaurant (if that's the best they have), and be reminded how "meh" they are. Those beers served a purpose 30 or 40 years ago, and got me on the path to seek out better beer. But today there are hundreds of beers I'd rather drink.

 

[chickypad]

Pete's Wicked Ale for me - right around the time I graduated college in 1990. The company that bought it in 1998 killed it though, changed Pete's recipe, so maybe that doesn't count. I don't think it's made anymore.