The craft beer bubble is busting.

[papz]

Whoosh/

 

[JAReeves]

Beer isn't a race, it's an adventure.

This.

I love to make and taste different beers, but if i’m looking for notches in my bedpost...it’s for the books i’ve read, not beers and not for anything else.

Sometimes you want a random beer that potentially tastes like polecat+steer w/IBS and sometimes it’s just the thing you know. You know?

 

[Mutant]

Another perspective on craft beer cost. At $40 for a 5-gallon home-brew kit, it would cost $1.00 USD per pint. At $5/pint at your local brew pub, instead you could afford a $200 kit and make your own for the same cost per pint. On the extreme end, at $12/pint, that would be a $480 home-brew kit. I'll sell these for 50% off and you could save BIG MONEY!!

I've made beers from $0.35 a bottle (Cream Ale) to $1.35 a bottle for an Eisbock. Most decent beers I made are in the range of $0.75 a bottle. You'll have to do the conversion for 12ox to 16oz (pint). I cringe when I go to a local brew pub and pay over $5 for a drink that I wouldn't even submit for a competition.

 

[IanJ]

I cringe when I go to a local brew pub and pay over $5 for a drink that I wouldn't even submit for a competition.

But to those folks, anything with enough ingredient buzzwords is the best you'll ever try -- and totally worth charging $9 for a 10oz glass of.

At least in NYC where it's easy to get away with selling swill where money flows like water... or juicy NEIPA's that taste like toilet water... but, but but, my elite Untappd check-in stats, fellow finance bro's.

 

[beernutz]

I've been trying to explain why I don't constantly try new stuff in hopes (mostly vain) of finding an exceptional beer. The quote above says it all.

Since the odds of finding the next exceptional beer are low, for me to live in pursuit of it is nothing more than, to paraphrase @Bilsch , "wasting my time drinking meh beer."

THAT is why I prefer to drink things I know I like, as opposed to chasing what, to me, are unicorns. Others may have different goals, interests, and tastes, and that's fine. Good thing, in fact--imagine if we were all the same, how that would end up.

I am not much of a new beer finder either but thankfully the liquor store a half mile from my house has weekly beer tastings so I get to try a lot of different beers without forking over extravagant six pack prices in search of unicorn beers.

If I could just remember to make tasting notes every week my system would be flawless.