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I'm not envious of the youngsters starting out in an era when good beer is available on every street corner. Yes, things have never been more exciting in US Micro brewing but I feel the grip of nostalgia. New breweries are opening almost weekly. New taprooms draw crowds to taste new, photogenic beers. Novelty, at times, seems to surpass quality in importance to today's promiscuous drinkers. Which isn't to say that we didn't get around in my day. It's just that we didn't make such an effort to make an obvious trail, or tally our conquests. Which were, admittedly, somewhat smaller in number. Might today's craft drinkers missing some great beers from great breweries, in a quest for the next big thing, and a desire to avoid drinking one of dad's many microbrews? The good news is that many are doing cool things to stay interesting, and remain in conversation. So many brewing luminaries of my youth are now ancient. Gr...
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