Your entire industry in the us exists because people were fed up with lack of choice, and don't stick to what they know is safe and what they will like.

This is the oddest statement ever in the context of craft beer, in addition to being just hard to understand in general.

If having something different got you lost in the shuffle, there'd be no craft scene in the USA, which has only really come about in the last 3 decades. So God awful options to market saturation in 20 years. Because someone who liked beer tried to do something different than how it was done here.

Then, ipas here in general, the very thing we are discussing... If anything, for me, they are too ignorant of tradition, but they're in their infancy, still. Other beer styles have been around for hundreds and hundreds of years, while this has sprung up in the most wildly, obnoxious, fuck you heres some citrus up your nose, most stars and stripesy entrance into the world of beer. I'm reputed to be shit at this but actually I'm an expert. There's nothing more American than that, and it's all about not being lost in the shuffle by being different.

Then yeah, imitator after imitator... Till the next thing comes along.

Americans aren't traditionalists with food and drink. Fads swing wildly. I'm not suggesting they'll go for brown ale all of a sudden, or milds, but they will go somewhere. They are already moving.

How is someone who has an entire lifetime of experience brewing english beer meant to brew very good beer in another style, one that they don't necessarily have a palate for, or any genuine interest in?

That's a recipe for disaster.

Also, there has been a movement toward more sessiony beers in general in the last few years in american cask beers. You can fill that in any number of ways, but there's nout wrong with using English beers to do it if that's your expertise.

Yes, but the beer market, including craft, is so saturated with more and more of the same that you'd best be looking for a way to differentiate yourself or you'll just get lost in the shuffle.

English beer styles are oddly underrepresented and differentiating yourself that way when it's genuinely what you know and understand in terms of brewing makes perfect sense.

Also, they could make an IPA you know. A real one ;)

12 k for very similar, but a custom shower with custom glass and a knee wall in lieu of the wall that framed the gross insert that used to be there.

I'm in Newport. But this was 3 yrs ago, so probably would be about 11 million now.