Maybe you should look at why your pale ales and IPA's take so long to be ready. Mine are usually grain to glass in 2 weeks. Are you pitching the correct number of healthy cells, using oxygen, and controlling your fermentation temperatures? If you're bottling and not kegging, the bottle conditioning phase is always going to be your rate limiting factor on ready to drink beer, but generally my beer gets packaged 7-10 days after pitching, and dry hopped beers 10-14 days. If I'm in a hurry or don't have any kegs tapped, I can force carb it in a day or two, but usually I'm just a set/forget guy because I've got other stuff on tap so it can sit for 2 weeks to get carbonated.
Anyway, my ordinary bitter usually goes grain to glass in about 10 days, but I can push it and have brewed it Monday night and drank it on Saturday.