This is an actual real thing in the SF Bay Area now – undrinkable overpriced hipster beer.
IPA (it *has* to be IPA) that is at least 7% and is so insanely hoppy that it strips off the roof of your mouth. And is also cloudy, as though they thought that dead yeast would add to the experience.
And $10 for a tiny glass (whatever mad measures they use there, but it looks like less than half a pint).
It’s everywhere, all the “craft” breweries seem to be making this stuff, so it’s pot luck now whether you get something good, or undrinkable over-hoppy grapefruit coloured junk.
You’re at least 5-8 years behind the curve on getting annoyed by that.
There are now so many ‘craft’ breweries in the UK that many can’t give their beer away* and are only in business because Tarquins dad is still throwing money at his sons east end craft brewery project because it has to be worth as much as Meantime and Campden town breweries sold out for, hasn’t it?
*it was always the case that breweries would offer buy X casks and get one free to pubs, but X has dropped from ~8 to 3, and it’s sale or return.