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Sure, as long as they adhere to the purity lawn.
Are you German? The reason the US has been kicking ass in microbrews is because we don't have beer purity laws. We can do some crazy shit. I absolutely hate sours. A lot of people enjoy them, I'm not going to complain about them being made. Because there are thirty other breweries in my town. Some breweries keep things tame and you always know what you're going to get when you go there. Some have weekly small batch releases (those can get crazy) and if you're adventurous, a fun place to try new things. Those breweries honestly brew for their own pleasure. If people like something, they're happy but they're making crazy things to try new profiles to expand the breadth of more mainstream beers.
If your imported beers aren't available you might look to tariffs over the microbrew scene.
Except import beers disappeared from my market years ago, way before the current tarrifs. Maybe something happened 10-15 years ago with tarrifs that I'm not educated about. I drink a few beers a year at this point. I want something I like, not an adventure in a bottle.
You should look into how distribution works. It’s very likely that companies doing distribution, which are shockingly also mostly the major beer companies, simply decided to offer less of it or raise prices for it to push retailers and bars toward things they fully own, which is a sizable chunk of the craft beer market available in stores other than the brewery itself.
It’s all really shady nonsense collusion shit, but not really the fault of breweries. Most of them don’t benefit either.
I'm sure this has a lot to do with it, but that's exactly what I'm going on about. I'm not mad at the guys downtown that want to brew beer, or their customers. I'm mad at the stores for filling the shelves with crap I don't want to drink at home when there are plenty of great beers that get pushed to the wayside so that a mega brewery can sell a more expensive product.