I Love Craft Beer. But It Needs To Die

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I love beer.

I love import beer.

I love craft beer.

But I want it to die.

In The Beginning

I’ve been drinking beer since, well since before I was supposed to be drinking beer.

The first beer I had I believe was a Bud Light.

I hated it.

The second “beer” I had was a Steel Reserve. I had to chase it with a Little Caesar’s Hot n’ Ready.

As you can tell I was off to a good start.

But, mind you, this was a good 16 years ago. Outside of a handful of parts around the country, you couldn’t get much. A good beer selection meant the store carried both Miller Genuine Draft and Miller High Life at the same time.

But a buddy and I discovered World Market. It carried beers we had never seen of. Crazy import beers. Look at the size of that bottle!

We tried them and it blew our minds. We were hooked. Up until that point, the most outlandish beer we had tried was a Blue Moon. But in reality, in the store’s that was about as outlandish of a beer anyone could find.

After we sampled those Belgian and German beers from World Market we went on hunts. Extensive beer hunts, to find…