# The problem with the dark craft beer situation these days.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** beer\
**Created:** [February 19, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-problem-with-the-dark-craft-beer-situation-these-days/848198 "2020-02-19T23:01:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-problem-with-the-dark-craft-beer-situation-these-days/848198/1 "2020-02-19T23:01:19Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-problem-with-the-dark-craft-beer-situation-these-days/848198/2 "2020-02-19T23:06:44Z")

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close double post please.

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-problem-with-the-dark-craft-beer-situation-these-days/848198/3 "2020-02-20T04:53:01Z")

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Beer does not need Milk.

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**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-problem-with-the-dark-craft-beer-situation-these-days/848198/5 "2020-02-20T12:59:01Z")

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> [@Simit](#):
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> Try wheat beer, some call it white beer. Its always stocked fresh as it is a relatively quick selling product (in Europe though)

Nope, same deal for the most part. It can get real old on the shelf. It is considerably less volatile and has more shelf life than Porters and Stouts for sure.