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Message: [QUOTE="Rocktheworld, post: 2598544, member: 5037"] Not sure what your friend was sending you, or when he was sending it, but if Alesmith was the best he sent... The craft beer scene hasn’t been big until the last few years and, again, you can’t judge an area by what cans you get. Many of these places don’t have the capacity to can or are just now doing so. Again, the small batches that drive the craft beer scene are often not canned at all. So to call your sample size limited is an understatement. I’m a prideful kid from the North East and I want NE to make the best stuff but their style is at least being made equally well out here. It’s sad to say in a way, but craft beer is my biggest “hobby” out here. Between SD, LA, and Portland, I’ve been to upwards of 100 breweries over the last 18 months. Yes, the west coast “piney”, “resin-y”, “dank” taste is pretty different; different, but not necessarily worse. Although I do personally prefer our NE hoppy and certainly hazy styles. Okay, what are the core beers at Mikkeller, Resident, Half Door, IronFist, and Pure Project? Okay so you didn’t care for a single mixed style and hop combination. Alpine is third-rate out here, again not at all something with which you judge a county boasting 150+ breweries [/QUOTE]