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Message: [QUOTE="storrsroars, post: 4335164, member: 2500"] Both you and Hooper are correct. Reminds me a lot of my time in coffee. Everyone crawling over each other to find the next new thing and report on it. Sometimes they were right. Sometimes they were very wrong. And meantime the OGs who created the specialty coffee space were still chugging along delivering the goods, but leaving the really experimental stuff to others. And I mostly still by coffee from the OGs as it's in my wheelhouse and I know they have better overall QC standards. The other thing with beer that's like coffee is that those market dynamics allow a brewer to sell what's otherwise an acceptable but not mindblowing product for the same price as the leaders who routinely produce excellence. So a Washington Brewery "Hazing Is Allowed" costs me as much as a Julius from Treehouse. The difference in quality between this and the General Braddock suds I posted a couple of weeks ago is very obvious to my palate. Yet it costs the same. For consumers trying all the stuff that's out there based on Untappd reviews or whatever, it can get frustrating. Your palate is your palate. Democratization of food/beer/wine reviews sounds like a great idea, but IMHO, we were all getting better information when it was a trained critic/reviewer offering their review for an actual publication. [ATTACH type="full"]77062[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]