You can drink beer with anything! Who wants to drink wine with a burger? There are so many different beers and for me I can drink beer all night. I can't do that so much with wine.

First of all I love Cahors wine with burgers. That being said when was the last time you saw Cahors by the glass? As a general rule if you want something interesting you have to go the bottle route. If you want white with a seafood appetizer and a red with a meat main course you can either drink the ordinary wines by the glass or buy multiple bottles which is very expensive if you are dining alone. On the other hand you can have a wheat beer with a lighter first course, an IPA with a heavier second course and a stout or porter as or with dessert. This is the reason I dine out at brewpubs so frequently and also search out restaurants that have serious beer lists. It is much easier to find interesting and unique beers on tap than wines by the glass.

I can't help but wonder if it is in part due to economics. You can buy a good quality beer for a reasonable price, but with the falling dollar of late imported wines are less of a bargin and will only be increasing in price due to higher demand of Chinese and other newer buyers interest in classic European brands (Gary Vaynerchuk has been mentioning this point on his podcast). On the other hand craft beer is an affordable option for a quality product at a reasonable price, even with the recent price hikes.

I am drinking about the same amount of beer but definitely less macro brews. I have sworn off of my two favorite big brews (Bud and Michelob) since the profits for that are now getting sent to Belgium.

McHenry and BaltoMarzHon.

I think it also has to do with the restaurants' focusing on providing better beer options. If you go to a typical sit-down restaurant now, they will try to impress you with their selections, and might even have some local brews, or one of their own, to offer you.
The restaurants realized that the profits on glasses of beer were much better than soda, so they have made an effort to try and push their beer options to the customer.

While I have always been a beer drinker, I think the increase in microbrews and craft brews have added many different styles and flavors to the beer market. I think this has made a "positive" beer impact on many wine drinkers and convereted them over to beer.

I never used to drink wine at all, but now I have a glass or two. I joined a wine club that mails wine to me.

but I do prefer beer, and with the many quality microbrews out there, I'd like to taste them all.

So many beers, so little time