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Message: [QUOTE="8893, post: 3252116, member: 93"] Although I've mostly replaced my beer drinking with hard cider in the past three years, I was all-in on the micro/craft beer scene for more than 25 years prior to that. By the time I switched there were already too many mediocre ones. I used to make it a practice to give almost any IPA a shot by picking up a six (or four) pack, and I still have the remnants of several of those in my basement beer fridge because so many were so meh. And ones like Sculpin or Jai Lai all of a sudden started tasting a lot less special. I keep putting them out at parties and each time a few more go. They don't taste any more meh now than they did then, but the sheer number of new breweries in the last three years alone makes it almost impossible to keep up, even if I was still trying. From the outside, it does seem like the average quality of the new breweries has increased significantly, and that's obviously a good thing. I agree with [USER=571]@Dove[/USER] that at this point it's better to spend $5 to try a can than to invest in a four pack if you don't know you really like it. I also agree that Stony Creek had a good buzz and a good run with a decent location, decent marketing and average-at-best beer, but that the bloom is off the rose a bit with increased competition both in local quality and in market penetration. Two Roads has far more resources and a much better plan to outlast them on that end of the market, and they are not good enough to compete at the high quality end. [/QUOTE]

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