Perhaps...there's some superb regular day drinkers that run under $2/bottle...and some of the more expensive specialty beers can cost upwards of $8/pint and taste like sewage.
(of course the really cheap beer is pretty universally bad)
There's lot of very drinkable wine at a $20 price point, but a $20 bottle is unlikely to surprise you with its complexity.
Disagree. I've had 20 dollar wine that I feel is more complex and much better than 60 dollar bottles. Now, there may be better 60 dollar bottles but that doesn't mean the best 20 dollar isn't better than the worst 100 dollar bottle.
Ah, but it requires special effort to produce a drinkable sort of sewage-tasting-beer and a particular period of training to learn to enjoy the unique sewage taste... of Orval, Flemish Sour Ale or lambic "natural" beer. And don't even mention the engine-oil taste of the great imperial stouts...
Well, at least my training myself to like $8 beer was less costly than someone else training themselves to like $50 wine...
That's precisely the taste I'm looking for in a good stout...that or old burned steak and rye bread.