JordanKnudson
Well-Known Member
The real title of this thread should be, "What's up with all the Hipsters and the Saison Fad?"
Or "What's up with sours, what's up with high gravity brews, what's up with lagers, what's up with [blank]." The bottom line is that there will *always* be a "popular" style that is more in vogue than the rest (and a second most popular, and third, and so on). What that style is changes over time, but come on, what are we doing here? It seems like folks are just hating on something because it's widely popular but not to their own personal tastes. Who cares?
Sorry, but I am really sick of this topic (not on this thread specifically, but in general). If you don't like a particular style of beer, good for you. Don't drink it. Quit whining. If you don't like any variant of that style (in the case of IPAs, the difference is pretty f-ing huge between west coast, midwestern, east coast, and English, so while they all are IPAs, they don't have the same profiles at all), good for you. Don't drink it. Quit whining. I don't like mega-estery bubblegum Belgians. Good for me. I don't drink them, except when I can try one out with an open mind. And I won't whine because other people do like them.
Furthermore, we're all homebrewers here. We're some of the ONLY people not limited to what's commercially available on the shelf at our local liquor store. Don't like IPAs? Don't brew them. You already knew that. Don't like saisons? Don't brew them. You already knew that. Know of a brew that you *do* really like? Brew it so you have something to drink when your local store only sells stuff you hate. Duh. It's not rocket science. :smack: