Friday

BYCU

I kinda feel like the craft beer revolution is becoming like the French Revolution: It devours its children. The constant innovation and cutting beer names is growing tiresome.

It used to be fun. For the first couple of years and the first 22,000 craft beer names and first 250 shades of beer (IPA, stout, extreme, wheat, etc.). But now? It's just getting old. Funny name after funny name, constantly getting raunchier and more outrageous in brewers' attempts to cut out a small slice out of the growing craft beer pie. I'm not offended by it, not at all. My reaction is worse: I'm getting bored. And I'm a guy who found Napoleon Dynamite and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure hilarious, so you're not exactly dealing with a man of discerning humor.

Anyway, all this was brought out of me by this story: Philadelphia Brewing Co. to release Pope Francis-inspired 'Holy Wooder' beer for papal visit. I don't even know what "Holy Wooder" is.

Even more disturbing, this is the fourth craft beer to jump on the Philadelphia Papal Tour:

For those keeping score at home, this makes four local papally inspired brews thus far, with Holy Wooder joining Cape May Brewing Co.'s “You Only Pope Once,” Manayunk Brewing's “Papal Pleasure,” and Crime + Punishment's “Jesus Wept.”

I, too, weep.