re: What's your most overrated beer/brewery?

Brewery? Rogue. I have defended Rogue in the past, because they do make some damn good beers. Some. The majority of their beers are misses.

I hear people talk about it like it's at the top of the heap of breweries, and that a beer is going to be good, just because Rogue brewed it (and it comes in a cool bottle).

I think the majority of the people who worship at the Rogue alter are non-mavens and don't know their beer. They are either trying to sound knowledgeable, or they are stuck in that transition between BMC and craft beer.

Most overrated beer? Pliny the Younger. Great beer, but nothing can live up to that hype. Notorious is better, for me, and I've had them back-to-back. Notorious doesn't get the hype - mainly because it's available all the time.