Craft Beer

[u/innsource]

So I run a liquor store which speciallizes in craft beer. #1 store in the state, to be more specific. I live and breath beer. If I'm not selling beers or ordering beers for the store, I'm buying beers, reading about beers, brewing beers, out with beer reps drinking beers. You get it.
Over the past few years I've been getting more and more disenfranchised with the what is being considered "craft" beer. This really hit hard with feedback from my last 3 batches.

Super crisp- clean, sessionable Lager: Too boring
Top tier West Coast IPA: Too bitter, not hazy or fruity enough
Marshamallow Dessert stout (I wasn't happy with sub-par quality) AMAZING!!!

Long story short, I want to brew more "Craft" beers. Does anybody have any recipes for a good New England Double Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Tropical Salted Caramel Double Dry Hopped Extra Oat Cream Vanilla Milkshake Chocolate Raspberry Icecream Sour White Stout Infused with Mint, Hibiscus and Truffle oil?

[u/toadi]

dude it is fucking beer. Snobs try to ruin everything... I'm Belgian and we love our beers but please keep the beer snobs out of it. I stay clear of wine because of this. I always I don't like wine but it is actually the culture around it I de-test.

[u/barley_wine → u/toadi]

Not trying to be a snob but the current trends around my area are kind of weird to me. Seems like they are often beer that tastes nothing like beer, fruit slushy mild sours, milkshake IPAs, flavored seltzer, I don’t care though, drink what you like, I’ll continue to brew what I like. If you don’t like my beer bring you own.

[u/TheDrMonocle → u/barley_wine]

Yeah I've seen this too. Its not that the beer snobs are taking over, its more of the opposite. The average person who doesn't like classic beer has found what they like and its beer thats not beer.

[u/toadi → u/TheDrMonocle]

I'm happy my country has a big beer culture. So we like classic beers. Regular pils, triples, trappists, ... Regular stuff.

[u/ilikesports3 → u/toadi]

I think the US is missing a lot of that middle area. We have a lot of creative fruity or hoppy stuff and a lot of imperial malty beers, but we're missing a lot of the established, traditional styles that are truly fantastic.

[u/LukaCola → u/ilikesports3]

I don't think we're missing it tbh. Not only is there not much of a shortage of, say, the many pilsners, but some of the larger craft brewers in the US all have pretty classic styles that are regularly provided.

Allagash, Sierra Nevada, Bell's, Stone, Two Roads, Ommegang, and I'm sure many others regularly put out mainstays that fit pretty well in the traditional styles.

Many of them also experiment - but that's no sign that the traditional styles are absent.

[u/ilikesports3 → u/LukaCola]

I agree there are a handful of breweries that keep focus on traditional styles, but from my experience, the vast majority of breweries (and craft beer available in groceries) are 80% hoppy or fruity beers. Rarely do I find a good red ale, brown ale, ESB, bock, dubbel, etc.