Craft brewing has been pozzed as fuck for a long while now. I'd have to dig back through my alt account's comments on reddit to find it, but there was a story that cropped up a couple years ago where a well-established microbrewery that produced their own recipes was basically denied entry into a contest because their label and name for one of their brews was deemed "offensive" by the judging panel. If memory serves me, it had something to to do with a play on the beer being a blonde ale, and the label had a cartoon image of a well-endowed woman. Because the snowflakes on the panel got their fee-fees hurt, they banned ALL of the brewery's beers from being entered into ANY of that area's competitions.
It doesn't help the craft brewing field that a HUGE amount of people who are into it are fart-sniffing, overly-pretentious, SJW asshats that, as they usually do, expect everyone else in the field they're entering to change to accommodate them, rather than them learning the way things work among that group.
Solution: Stop frequenting brewpubs that exhibit wokeness. Stop buying microbrews that come from woke companies. Start brewing your own, and gatekeep the entryists out.
IPAs brings up another point that comes to mind. I enjoy the occasional IPA (I'm more of a malt man, myself), and the obsession with cramming more and more hops into a brew has always baffled me. I mean, I get the enjoyment of the crispness and bitterness of hops, but triple or more the usual amount of a standard IPA? It makes my mouth pucker just thinking about it.
Craft brewing has been pozzed as fuck for a long while now. I'd have to dig back through my alt account's comments on reddit to find it, but there was a story that cropped up a couple years ago where a well-established microbrewery that produced their own recipes was basically denied entry into a contest because their label and name for one of their brews was deemed "offensive" by the judging panel. If memory serves me, it had something to to do with a play on the beer being a blonde ale, and the label had a cartoon image of a well-endowed woman. Because the snowflakes on the panel got their fee-fees hurt, they banned ALL of the brewery's beers from being entered into ANY of that area's competitions.
It doesn't help the craft brewing field that a HUGE amount of people who are into it are fart-sniffing, overly-pretentious, SJW asshats that, as they usually do, expect everyone else in the field they're entering to change to accommodate them, rather than them learning the way things work among that group.
Solution: Stop frequenting brewpubs that exhibit wokeness. Stop buying microbrews that come from woke companies. Start brewing your own, and gatekeep the entryists out.
I just want to drink some IPAs and be left alone. Sadly the people who sell me the IPAs are the same people who won't leave me alone
IPAs brings up another point that comes to mind. I enjoy the occasional IPA (I'm more of a malt man, myself), and the obsession with cramming more and more hops into a brew has always baffled me. I mean, I get the enjoyment of the crispness and bitterness of hops, but triple or more the usual amount of a standard IPA? It makes my mouth pucker just thinking about it.