> Your typical tap list these days is 8 IPAs, 1-2 dIPAs, 4 sours, something that contains coffee, some other weird shit...
Yup. I live close to a bunch of breweries in Seattle. The taplists of the two nearest are:
Stoup:
// IPAs:
Mosaic Pale Ale
Citra IPA
Chur to Twelve IPA
Rainbow Bubbles IPA
Nothing Crazy IPA
Simcoe Studies IPA
Stoup Dog IPA
Sir Dank A Lot IPA
Space Garden IPA
Paraderade IPA
Easy A IPA
// Everything else:
German Style Pilsner
NW Red
Imperial Porter
Cervecita Mexican Lager
Bavarian Hefeweizen
What a Tart Raspberry Sour
Bale Breaker: // IPAs:
Field 41 Pale Ale
Topcutter IPA
Bottomcutter IIPA
Daybreak Pale Ale
Hazy L IPA
Frenz IPA: Sierra Nevada
Long White Clouds IPA
Evenfall Hazy IPA
Bubba's Brew IPA
Bale Breaker Why the Ek-Not IPA
Bale Breaker Tropical Penguin
// Everything else:
Bale Breaker Pilsner PNW Pilsner
Dormancy Stout - Coffee
Raging Ditch Dry-Hopped Blonde Blonde Ale
Bale Breaker Pasketti Sauce Pilsner - Italian
YOXI Lime Agave Ranch Water Hard Seltzer
And note that even the "everything else" category can't escape the "hop the fuck out of everything" trend. Stoup's pilsner is described as "spicy hop aroma and refreshingly dry, hop-forward finish". The Red "provides a distinctly Northwest hop character".I get it, Cascadia grows a lot of hops. But some of us just want to taste beer and not win some macho contest to see who can choke down the most IBUs per fluid ounce.