Come on everybody, let's here the chant: Pils! Pils! Pils! ....
I lead a team of brewers who are chanting for peanut butter beers and hazy IPAs ... and I'm like, you haven't even brewed a good kolsch or pils yet.
And as a side peeve: You think hazy IPAs are annoying? How come whenever I DO see a brewery (major ones even) putting out a Pils, it's not crystal clear? Get you $#!+ together, craft brewers, step up like a real brewery. I now return you to your regularly scheduled fray.
Why stop at pils not being clear? The local brewpub is the same way. Bitter, Stout, Pils, Helles, Cream Ale, IPA, Brown Ale, Red Ale, Porter...in the last year I've tried all those styles, and all have been cloudy.
And not just a little cloudy, we're talking you can taste the yeast cloudy. Whatever yeast they use seems to have a peanut-like flavor. On rare occasions when the beer is clear that flavor isn't there.
I get that small breweries may not have time to let beer settle, so maybe we should be fussing at the consumers willing to buy crappy beer...