Craft beer and homebrew quality

[Peter Smith]

I See this as a great thing

From lukes blog post - http://theweek.com/article/index/269205/will-a-bunch-of-terrible-cr...

I really do believe that craft drinkers only give a brewery a few chances before passing, If the first 2 pints from a new entrant are passable, I tend not to try the 3rd 4th beers etc, until some friend points out they have improved....     and on the flip side its forcing some old brands who where pioneers to up there game, give macs sassy red another try , it started great , went to sh^& (IMHO)  and is back as an amazing best bitter.....

as home brewers we have never had so many beers to side by side test our own beers against ...  good times

[Samuel Loader]

This is the same thing that happened in the USA about 10 years ago when their craft beer industry really started booming over there. Those who had the money and saw the craft beer industry as a 'quick' buck with little or no talent with beer entered the market quickly with 'bad' (basic errors, not personal preference) beer.

The consumers quickly weeded these out and they went out of business quickly making room for good breweries and improved the basic standard of craft beers over time.

So never fear this is the natural progression of the industry and many more good breweries are on the horizon