Thanks revvy. I guess we had to try to drive the point home about a good,average Joe sort that just wanted to spread the love about home brewing. That's why I'm here. Not just to learn more,which is great by the way. But to give something back to the noobs coming in behind me the way you & others helped me. I think that's also part of where Craig's head is at.
The funny thing is about THIS old thread. When it was started, it was the first thread that didn't totally trash Craig. It wasn't as mean as some of the other ones. Definitely not the same attitude that fredthecat has. It was like finally folks were looking at Craig with a level of maturity and not the "superiority" of the new, elitist, brewer zealot that thinks there's only one way to make beer (and Craig's way is not it.)
This is a HOBBY, it's about having fun...at the level that works best for you. Some folks love spending hours doing a triple decoction mashi with a side of cereal mashing, and water chemistry additions, SOME have fun making beer by just openning a can.....And some, like CRAIG, don't really even see this as a hobby, as much as a means to an end. He's in it to make a cheaper, yet still tasty, alternative to the lcbo and high beer prices. And I think his videos were really geared to folks like him, and not necessarily folks who want more from the hobby. But the nature of the interwebz is that, folks looking to enter into it as a hobby discovered the videos.
A lot of folks have used it as a stepping stone, which is great. A lot of folks also stay at that level to make cheap beer, which is just as great.
A wise man once said, "Never bash another man's brewery."
The way I see it, there are kids starving everyday, some of our friends could die any minute in Afghanistan and Irag, so who cares how Craig makes HIS beer.
