It seems every little corner liquor store has at least 2 dozen varieties of craft beer, with many larger local stores having several dozen. It seemed like a great situation at first for us beer snobs. A quick walk over to the nearest store would score something pretty good for that moments whim.
But there is now so much, that there is no dependable throughput on any particular beer. Some sit there for months skunking up. And my eyes are not able to read the tiny dates they stamp on the thing these days. Of course it isn’t a problem for the IPAs that have are designed to have no beer flavor, just an overload of hops, that’s why they were freakin’ invented in the first place.
But for those of us who actually like the flavor of the grain in their beers, it’s back to the same old story, you gotta go past the local stores again, to the big one that has the throughput, and understanding, to keep stock fresh.