Pale Ales are Shit

Pale ales are a meme beer. Everyone does them, and no one does them well.

>not liking iced tea made from hops
i thought you were cool, user

Thank you for your opinion, we really care.

Obvious bait thread, but still

>no one does them well.

Pic related, the pale ale that sets the bar for what all others should aspire to be.

I've been drinking this beer for more than 20 years. Before and after I started home brewing. Still amazing.

Maybe you just don't like pale ales. It's okay to not like something that other people like.

Except all breweries try and pull it off and it's all they do. case and point. Sierra Nevada did it and now every brewery does it. It's gotten to the point where pale ale's are the equivalent of rage comics.

95% of IPA sucks ass. It is the great meme beer. There are great examples of the style like Pliney the elder or Hopslam But OP is right, every brewery makes an IPA and most are terrible. It has become the hipster douche beer. How many times have you heard a beer snob criticise what you are drinking and recommend a random IPA, then when you don't like it he says "well your palette isn't accustomed to the nuances of an IPA" naw dude it just tastes like bitter flowers.

I don't know where you are, but here in the upper midwest so many are doing really good pale ales

Speak for yourself California

Sorry bro. Ohio here