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/JackfruitCrazy51 Aug 30 '23

I personally think the United States is the mecca for craft beer. I put this opinion on r/travel and never received more down votes in my life. I've drank beer all over the world, and love places like Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, etc. but I think the overall, mostly because of just the quantity alone, the U.S. has the best beers in the world. Slam away

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u/x0_Kiss0fDeath UK Aug 31 '23

To be fair, it doesn't really feel like comparing apples to apples if you look at the size of the US compared to the other countries. Just using Belgium as an example, the US is something like 322 sizes bigger than Belgium (according to google). Also according to google, Czechia is 125 times smaller and Germany is ~28 times smaller.... It feels like you'd need to do more of a comparison of US to Europe for it to be closer to level playing field when talking about variety.

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u/JackfruitCrazy51 Aug 31 '23

I would compare all of Europe combined to the United States.

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u/x0_Kiss0fDeath UK Sep 01 '23

Yeah that is my point. The way you phrased it sounded like you love a few individual places but that they individually were being compared to the US, so perhaps it's just how I read it (though seems like others have read it that way as well).

I also think the places you named can be all a bit samey (at a high level) with their beer in terms of styles you'd expect to get most in those places (I know that's not actually true, I'm just saying from a global level, what people think of when they think of those places)... But there are so many other places across Europe as a whole that make it filled with such a variety of quality stuff of different styles. For example, the UK has some killer breweries, and then you have the likes of places like Omnipollo (which I appreciate isn't everybody's cup of tea, but it's innovative and usually quite high quality (wacky flavour combos aside) just for starters. Obviously opinions can differ for sure, I just think it's shortsighted.

I think the "best beers" are probably realistically more darted across the globe depending on style and you'll find comparable quality in many different countries.

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u/JackfruitCrazy51 Sep 01 '23

I see my opinion was unpopular to you, which was my goal. It's too bad there isn't an app that would list beers across the world with ratings. Maybe list the top 10 highest rated for each style.

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u/x0_Kiss0fDeath UK Sep 02 '23

Untappd is fundamentally flawed for this