I’m Glad Beer Is Boring Again

I used to be the worst kind of beer drinker. The one who thought he was right about everything but actually knew very little. I don’t feel regretful or embarrassed about this. Who wouldn’t have got caught up in the excitement propagated by the emergence of thousands of quirky, independent breweries across America? I needed something like that, honestly. Something that was my own and not that of my father. American beer culture rapidly proliferated within the United Kingdom in the early 2010s, manifesting itself in the form of hundreds of copycat breweries attempting to channel the creativity being demonstrated by their American peers (with varying results.) I let it wash over me like a tidal wave. As my own fandom reached fever pitch, I did the most obnoxious thing possible: I started a beer blog. One of the earliest mistakes I made as I began my endeavour to catalog British beer culture was to judge breweries by how visible they were, and how fast they were growing. If they were able

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