Who needs craft beer?

Not this beer drinker who has written a rather terse 'letter to the editor' of the New Zealand Dominion Post where they shared their apparently absolute disdain for an over-hopped lager with pinot gris undertones and shilled for a good old crate of Lion Red:

The letter reads:

All this crap about craft beer (Grain and Grape, March 21). I can't stand the weird, expensive stuff. I was given some recently and it wasn't just me that tipped it out over the rose bushes.
If you want a nice beer that hits the spot. just get yourself a dozen 4% 750ml Lion Red in a wooden crate. It works out at $2.89 a pint when you take the bottles and crate back to be recycled.
How environmentally friendly is that when you compare it with the throwaway craft beer bottles and cans?
And pubs?
Well, they should be about real conversation, not a round circle discussion about an over-hopped lager with pinot gris undertones and rays of grapefruit singing out from the bottom of the glass. or whatever the latest fad is that sets you back $15 a pint.

Neil Douglas of Carterton does make an excellent point, it makes my crypto wallet really sad when you check out the price of a craft beer in Wellington.

I had a $25 lunch burger the other day and the beer was half the value - at $12.50 for a beer just feels on the nose.

And that is why I tend to home brew!

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