Are microbreweries becoming ‘passe’?

Of course we love microbrews. When we aren’t guzzling PBR or ‘Gansett, we will buy a classy 6-pack or two. But what happens when the MAN actually likes microbreweries? Is it no longer hip to drink the micros?

While Republicans and Democrats are battling over huge budget deficits and painful spending cuts, a more convivial group is clinking glasses across the aisle to support the Brewer’s Employment and Excise Relief Act, or BEER. The government would forfeit an estimated $67 million in excise tax revenue over five years, according to a study financed last year by the Brewers Association and published by a Harvard professor. Daily Beast

What does this mean for the typical microbrew-drinking hipster? If this bill passes, and microbrews have widespread government support, the term ‘microbrew’ may need to be redefined. Because I’m not interesting in listening to what THE MAN has to tell me. And if THE MAN tells me to drink microbrews, you can bet your ass I’ll start drinking illegal hipster moonshine instead. Fuck that.

And if this bill passes, by next year the big breweries like Anheuser-Busch will just buy up spineless microbreweries so that they can take over ever aspect of our beer-drinking lives. Example: Magic Hat selling out to North American Breweries, owners of Genesse, Dundee, West Coast’s Pyramid Breweries, and MacTarnahans.

What will you do? Follow the trend? Or start drinking Appletinis to be different?