Goose island

[seefish]

I haven't noticed a decline, I'm just happy there is more barrel aged beers and more Matilda

Didn't they win Gold at GABF last year for the IPA?

 

[Ramitt]

I've always had a hard time deciding if it's the beer that changed or my tastes. For everyone who says that they used to like GI beers, but don't like them anymore, consider that if you are like me, Goose Island, Sierra Nevada, Sam Adams, and Anchor were some of the first "craft" beers that you had. At the time, they were a new experience with new flavors and they were exciting. Now those beers are available to you anytime, anywhere and you're broadened your horizons to much more variety in beer. The craft beer industry has exploded (again) and there are flavors in beer that simply were not there 5 years ago. Those beers you had then are not new and not exciting anymore.

Are you remembering the flavor of the beer when you first had it, or are you remembering the experience of first having it?

Are you looking at it through the same lens that you did then? Did you think about what hop varieties you tasted, texture, finish, clarity?

I don't know if GI beers have changed in the last decade or not, but I know for sure I have.

I should have been more clear, I never thought GIs standard line up was all that great, not bad by any means. I always considered SN vastly better.