I've drunk hundreds of different craft beers and the reality is the vast majority of them are rubbish.
Craft beer grew out of a desire to counter the bland dullness of mass produced swill but in many respect it has become guilty of the same sin.
I see 20 taps on a bar and I know a lot of them will be the same IPA hop bombs with high abvs that all taste of the same thing - hops.
Hops should complement a beer not dominate it so powerfully that my sinuses explode and my eyes water.
The rest will be the result of some microbreweries having a willy waving competition to see who can produce the foulest tasting combination - yes,smoked porter with strawberry poppadums that's you I'm talking about.
What started in the US transferred to the UK about ten years ago and exactly the same modus operandi occurred.Most of what I taste is undrinkable to such an extent that now I do something I've never ever done before and that's order a half pint.
Okay,I hear you say,what do you like ?
Bass is what I say.
Increasingly hard to find these days but a truly great beer - which even the Americans don't manage to cock up when they brew it.
As you were.