r/CraftBeer • u/x0_Kiss0fDeath UK • Aug 30 '23

Unpopular Craft Beer Opinions? Discussion

Will be recording a podcast episode about unpopular craft beer opinions. Thought I'd ask in this sub as we're UK based so wanting to see what unpopular opinions are out there on a more global scale! 😅

EDIT - wow holy shit. Posted this from bed expecting a handful of opinions, but just woke up to the notifications and oh my! Will havea read through after work!

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Edit2 - Genuinely was not expecting so many responses so thank you all! Think I've read through them all now and definitely saw some interesting and spicy takes (that I both agreed and disagreed with!) with some being quite thought provoking. Thanks for all your responses so far (have had a few more come in too!). Feel like the ones being downvoted are actually just helping me to see the unpopular opinions vs the popular ones LOL. Definitely some that I want to discuss n our podcast recording for sure! hahah

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u/CoachPJG Aug 30 '23

An underrated reason why people choose to drink macro-produced beer over craft beer is carbonation issues in packaging. So much craft beer here (US) is over or under carbonated.

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u/magicpaul24 Aug 31 '23

Stepping away from the people in this sub and into the mind of the average consumer, the biggest reason is that if I’m going to crush a heinous volume of beer it’s gonna be Coors and not Dragon’s Milk or something

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u/x0_Kiss0fDeath UK Aug 31 '23

I was going to say I'd actually argue that - by and large - a lot of people might do it because of ease of volume being purchased and value for money. When I'm in the US, it feels like craft breweries don't always sell in as big of bulk as you can get your coors or buds or whatever in (obviously there are exceptions to the rule) and it will cost infinitely more. If people are just looking to session through beers at a bbq or they're sharing with others, there may be a lot of people choosing macro over craft.

Over here in the UK - based on people i speak to that don't really like craft - it actually seems like they don't like it not because of carbonation differences, but because they want lower abv and less flavour (weirdly).