If you like expensive, over-hopped IPA made with mediocre ingredients and specially bred hops that are so potent they (kinda) overpower the taste of beet sugar and inferior malts, then America is a great place to pay more money for beer.
There some genuinely good beers around, but they are few and far between and WAAY more expensive than great beer in Germany. And from elsewhere in the thread, it sounds like our 3-teired system does indeed majorly suck for microbreweries. It may be a big part of why they have to cheap out on ingredients and try to cover it up with palette-dominating hops in order to turn a profit and stay afloat.
Europe has plenty of mediocre "craft" beer. I've had tons of beer in Europe that tasted like homebrew - one dimensional.
American craft brewers lean heavily into hoppy IPAs because that's what craft beer buyers like. IPAs are almost always the best selling beer that a craft brand makes. If you talk to them, they will say they'd love to make more varieties of other styles of beers, but IPAs keep the lights on, thus 40% of their product portfolio ends up being IPAs.
I hate IPAs and the style of hops American brewers use, so I tend to drink imported German/Czech lagers and pils a lot.
This is a meme. Most breweries make other types of beer, I go for Pilsner or Kolschs myself, and the beer is not more expensive than larger breweries. You’re regurgitating a stereotype about American millennials.
There some genuinely good beers around, but they are few and far between and WAAY more expensive than great beer in Germany. And from elsewhere in the thread, it sounds like our 3-teired system does indeed majorly suck for microbreweries. It may be a big part of why they have to cheap out on ingredients and try to cover it up with palette-dominating hops in order to turn a profit and stay afloat.