r/Homebrewing • u/innsource • Jun 11 '21

Craft Beer Brew Humor

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?

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u/barley_wine Advanced Jun 11 '21 edited Jun 11 '21

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.

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u/TheDrMonocle Jun 11 '21

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.

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u/OccamsLazerr Jun 11 '21

Why does that matter? The breweries are obviously going to follow the market. Your dollar isn’t worth more than anyone else’s just because you like “real beer”. I love the classic beer taste and I promise you, if you have enough energy to post about it on reddit, you have enough energy to find decent beer around you anywhere.

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u/TheDrMonocle Jun 11 '21

It doesn't matter. They should absolutely follow the trend, I was just commenting on what I've been seeing. Didn't mean anything negative by it, just an observation.

As far as my beer thats not beer comment, I think that also came off wrong. All i meant is it's a bit further from beer than what came before, not trying to say its worse.

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u/OccamsLazerr Jun 11 '21

Reread your comment and you’re right, you didn’t say anything negative. I guess I was just ascribing the vibes of this whole post to your comment. My bad!

I would say my only gripe is the idea that many craft beers are “beer that’s not beer”. If it’s got water, grain, yeast, and hops, it’s beer. You can say it’s far from its roots and you can say you don’t like it, but it’s still beer.

Ignore the second paragraph as I typed it earlier today before I read your reply!

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u/JustinM16 Jun 12 '21

Is braggot beer or mead?

Discuss.

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u/OccamsLazerr Jun 12 '21

Lmao. To me it’s always been a normal beer with a lot of honey added at flameout.