Hoppy beers may be impressing craft beer insiders, but they are alienating the lager-drinking masses

In an interview two years before his death, food maven Anthony Bourdain described popping into a San Francisco bar for a cold beer, only to gape at what he described as an alien invasion.

“I looked around: the entire place was filled with people sitting there with five small glasses in front of them, filled with different beers, taking notes. This is not a bar. This is f—ing Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” he said.

It was quickly adopted as a clarion call against the forces of beer elitism. And in this battle, one issue trumps all others: the tendency to utterly pack craft beer with hops.

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