When everyone’s trying to be edgy, does that make edgy the new mainstream (and vice versa)?

It happened to music - Taylor Swift is now deemed as worthy of appreciation as Bruce Springsteen - and we’re no longer shamed for enjoying mainstream pop. Beyonce and Rihanna lovers are out and proud.

“Poptimism”, as the movement is being called, is not, however, confined to music, and the latest industry to experience a resurgence of mainstream brands is beer.

In recent years, the rise of craft beer and independent breweries has brought out the inner beer snob in everyone - we’re all critics now, shunning big name lagers for independent micro-brewery beverages.

But growth in the industry has started to slow according to Eater, and much like the recent backlash to the clean eating movement, people have begun to grow sick of beer snobbery.

We no longer want to spend £8 on an incredibly niche beer with a silly name, and people are realising that actually, they’d rather have a widely available and highly quaffable mainstream brew.

And that’s acceptable again.

No longer must you pretend to care about maltiness and “mouth-feel”, but rather you can just enjoy a beer for its sheer refreshing deliciousness.

The poshest beers Show all 10 1 /10 The poshest beers The poshest beers Budweiser Budweiser, famous for its bullfrog adverts, came in 5th. 38 per cent of those who buy the beer are middle class. Spencer Platt/Getty Images The poshest beers Peroni Italian beer Peroni topped the list, as 50 per cent of its customers are middle class Jason Carter Rinaldi/Getty Images for Peroni The poshest beers Heineken Dutch beer Heineken came second. 45 per cent of its customers are middle class. Getty Images The poshest beers Kronenbourg 1664 Tastemaker Alex James joins the celebrations of the 350th anniversary of the first Kronenbourg brewery at Le Cafe Du Marche Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images for Kronenbourg The poshest beers Beck's Beck's, a German beer, came 4th with 38 per cent of its customers being middle class The poshest beers A Belgian beer, Stella Artois came 6th with 36 per cent Mark Renders/Getty Image The poshest beers 35 per cent of the customers of Dutch beer Grolsch are middle class Piutus/Flickr CC The poshest beers Fosters lager Australian beer Fosters came in 8th. 33 per cent of its customers are in the AB social group GREG WOOD/AFP/Getty Images The poshest beers Carling 31 per cent of Carling customers are middle class Graeme Robertson/Getty Images The poshest beers Carlsberg came join last with Carling, with 31 per cent. Niklas Morberg/ Flickr CC

What if your beer isn’t served in the right-shaped glass at the perfect temperature? Actually, we don’t really care (within reason).

Just as indie kids lose interest in musicians once they’ve hit the big time, beer snobs are now moving back towards the likes of Carlsberg and Heineken, and arguing that they’re just as worthy of appreciation as niche beers.

Back in 2008 - showing that beer snobs have always had a thing for mainstream brands whether they admit it or not - Burkhard Bilger wrote in The New Yorker that Budweiser’s “sheer consistency, across tens of billions of bottles and cans, is a technical marvel, and even the crankiest craft brewers harbour a secret admiration for it.”

And then there’s top chef David Chang who a couple of years ago wrote an article in GQ expressing his love for cheap beer: “There’s no beverage that I’ve drunk more of in my life than Bud Light. (Except water, but what’s the difference?) And there’s no drink I love more,” he wrote.