As much as I love and enjoy wine, I also have a special liking to
craft beers.
When I was in high school and in college, (late 1960’s, early 1970’s) the beer of choice generally was Shaffer, Pabst,Miller and then a special beer came along, Coors!, the original in the golden can and needed to be refrigerated since it was not pasteurized. 
Fast forward to about the 1980’s and it was boating time, playing time, softball and more. The beer? Coors in the Silver can. 
In the 1980’s and 1990’s, I started to take up home brewing. I brewed about 50 or more beers. First starting with the can kit, so basically nothing could go wrong. As time went on and I became a bit more experienced and adventurous, I started selected the grains, the yeast, the hops and the real homebrewing process began for me.
This was so much fun and I quickly realized that even as a beginner, I could brew some excellent beers. I had tried my hand a making wine, 
first from a kit, then from grapes, but I soon discovered that there was so much involved in making wine. My attempts basically produce jug like quality wines. I soon gave up on that.
But beer making was a different story. I started to read various books on home brewing, checking on different recipes to make. The sound of the beer fermenting and that ball cock gurgling was really neat.
I started making my own labels for my beers. I was using the bomber bottles (24oz). I loved the process of moving the fermented beer from one carboy to the next one until it was time to bottle. Bottling was fun, capping each bottle and then putting on the labels. However, after a while, this became a chore. Not the actual beer making, but the clean up afterwards and the sanitizing of all the equipment, especially the bottles.
In 2009, after I retired from IBM, I started working as the Wine Manager at a local retail store. There is where I started to really learn about craft beer. The beer person at the store did a great job in bringing in all those craft and hard to find beers. We started a ritual , that every night when we closed, we would select 2 or 3 beers and tasted them. Over several years, this allowed me to try so many great beers and to record my experiences with each. I started using Beer Advocate, since that was a great way to rate and record your beer tasting experiences.
I had my favorites over the years, but I basically was/am a IPA lover (Heady Topper) and a fanatic about Stouts. (Dog Fish Head World Wide Stout)
So after all these years, I have probably tasted and rating about 300 beers. Some I have loved and some that I would like to forget about. It is so interesting to see how many new breweries are establishing themselves in making some great craft beers.
Today, I still love my beers, but if I am going to drink a beer, it will be a craft beer. Everyone once in a while, at parties or outdoor events, the only beers are the standard Bud or Coors. While I used to love those in the past, they now seem so bland and tasteless to me. (Though they are still fine while chugging them down after working hard in the heat!) About the only non craft beer I still enjoy is PBR 