Craft beer has already jumped the shark. It was far easier to find great beer 10 years ago, before the boom in microbreweries allowed every idiot who ever cooked up five gallons with malt extract to open a business selling overhopped hipster-approved foam.
Unfortunately, the craft beer industry has spawned the same problems that the macro beer industry has - specifically a lack of variety as the market has begun to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Just as the domestic macro beer market has traditionally been flooded with flavorless fizzy "golden suds" pisswater that, as Budweiser so eloquently stated, "is brewed for drinking" rather than tasting, so the craft beer market has been flooded with poorly-made disgusting IPAs completely void of nuance that can be held like a bottled badge of honor by guys who want the cred that goes with buying local and drinking something "crafted" but who don't have the refined taste to appreciate any flavor other than "It's so hoppy!"
Yikes, if there's any industry that I can think of that absolutely doesn't limit itself to producing for the lowest common denominator, it's the craft beer industry. That's part of the beauty of small batch. You can't very well sink millions into a wildly experimental golf course if you're not sure people will want to play it, but small breweries can and do experiment all the time. I can think of two extremely high quality breweries within three miles of my apartment that don't even brew IPAs. Off Color's flagship (Troublesome) is arguably the best Gose produced in the Midwest. Metropolitan focuses solely on lagers and bocks, and I doubt you'll come across a finer Kolsch brewed in this country than their Krankshaft. Goose Island revolutionized barrel aging and practically created an entirely new class of beer in the process. New Glarus is a Wisconsin institution, and they don't brew an IPA (though they did do a IIPA for their thumbprint series), Instead, they are pushing boundaries with their sours and fruit beers, which are off the charts good. If you walk into a big box liquor store (in Chicago, it's Binnys, on the West Coast, it's Bev-Mo, etc.) and all you can find is poor quality IPAs, you're doing it wrong. Either that, or you're letting other people's experience with Hipsterism ruin what's actually a pretty good thing.
If people are making shitty, unbalanced beers that you don't like, there's a simple solution: Don't buy them. Honestly, unless they're stealing shelf or tap space, who cares how many bad beers are out there? There's still a hell of a lot more good beer available now than there's been since prohibition. It's virtually impossible to walk into a bar these days, and I'm talking regular neighborhood dive bars, and not find a few things on tap that are worth your money if you want something with some flavor. And if you want to drink Bud, more power to you. Drink what you like. But that was absolutely not the case 10 or 15 years ago when you were lucky if a place had Sierra Nevada in bottles.
Lest I come off as a beer snob in all of this, I'll tell you that my beer philosophy is almost exactly the same as my golf philosophy. I like to play well regarded, well thought out, fun golf courses, even if they cost a little more. But what's important is spending time with friends and enjoying the day, so if you make a time at your local dog track muni, I'm going to show and play. I also like well made beers with a fair amount of flavor, so when I'm stocking my fridge, that's what you'll find. But I will gladly and without complaint drink whatever cheap mass produced beer you put in front me. And Jason, whatever you do, don't let Pat talk you into drinking a Surly Furious when you're up there for the Mashie. It's one of the best beers on the planet, but ya know, it's an IPA so you'll want to stay away.