It's getting hard to make decisions. Store near me has a really good selection with a huge portion of it from just Texas breweries.. Lagunitas wasn't really keeping up with the times IMHO; easy to say goodbye after the sale to Heineken. I think only the breweries really continuing to push the envelope and surprise will rise to the top.

Some examples which people may disagree with: Odells(rupture is very good IMHO), Founders, Stone, Boulevard, Deschutes(still putting out some good seasonal and one-off), Prairie, ... Actually I could probably go on and then get into singler beers that I like a lot from different breweries. Too much to choose from, and sometimes you don't want to pick out something new when you already have 30 beers available you know you're gonna like.

Wouldn't mind clearing some of the shelf space of generics and getting some New Zealand beers in though.. They are doing some fantastic stuff down there.

Indistinguishable*. But even then I don’t think that’s the right word. The way different products are qualitatively differentiated is not clear from the packaging, but you will generally expect two randomly chosen beers to taste different. I don’t see why that’s bad either. I enjoy the novelty and lack of expectation even if all beer is bounded within a certain range of taste.

Do you feel the same way about the wine market? Or do you feel like that market is different somehow?

If it's anything like the UK, the wine selection will have variation. The craft beers will be 300 hoppy IPAs.

It's awesome.