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Friday Fun Thread for September 13, 2024

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Does anyone know where the beer trends are going? What's cool now?

As a resident of Czech Republic, the idea of 'trends in beer' seems bizarre. Beer is a daily drink. Asking for a 'trend' in beer is like asking for trends with Coca-Cola. Sure people do try but generally the big established brands produce pretty good lager which is what almost everyone drinks.

It seems in America it's something else, not a basic commodity.

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Do you really not have trends in what styles are popular? The Czechs never had an IPA revolution? Nobody ever got into sours? Every brewery simply sells the exact same product they've been making for 300 years?

And Coca-Cola definitely goes through different trends. The diet soda trend of the 80s, the wide proliferation of flavors in the 90s, the "health drink" trend and diversification into soda-substitutes in the 2000s, the "inject diet coke directly into my veins" performative addiction of the current era. Not to mention the occasional burst of nostalgia and brief increase in popularity of the old glass bottles every few years.

I'm sure there are Czech hipsters and I do know craft beers exist and are drunk (as the chart shows), but it's not really my thing. I've been offered some craft beer and such, wasn't generally bad.

Wasn't generally better than what you can buy in store, just different. I'm not going to 4x my beer costs to get something 'different' now am I?

Due to parentage and upbringing (public school) I'm inacapable of understanding what 'cool' means. Or at least what normies mean by that.
E.g. very early on when at 15 I was out drinking with my high school class (more like a state run & funded prep) and the girls were smoking unfiltered cigarettes & instead of being normal and thinking "they're being so cool" I thought "they think this makes them adults" and having a bit of a laugh internally.