I have to agree with the OP, I could care less about how bad BMC beers taste to me. My biggest beef is their business practices. They buy up breweries that they thought they could make a buck on, alter recipes for the highest profit margin possible, shut down the original breweries, and mass produce them from huge hub breweries. Then they have the sly marketing team put crap on their labels that make you think you drinking something you are not.
Rolling Rock is a great example of this, one, the recipe tastes nothing like the original, but then on the label they say "To Honor the Tradition of this great brand we quote from the original pledge of quality......From the Glass Lined Tanks of Old Latrobe We Tender...etc etc.. If you look at the label, at first glance you see "From the Glass Lined Tanks of Old Latrobe" in nice big bold letters. The crap about honoring the tradition is a nice small print. Oh, and in case you didn't know, Rolling Rock is not brewed at the Latrobe Brewery anymore, and is not brewed in glass lined tanks and the recipe isn't used either, they just bought the rights to the name and dumped whatever crap they wanted into the bottles.
Rolling Rock is just 1 example of hundreds. All of my old staples have been bought up and destroyed, Bass, New Castle, Boddington's, Tetley's. These were once good beers that have been bought up by these massive companies, then systematically destroyed in order to make them "more Profitable". I have nothing against making money or profits, but when you buy something and destroy it, and then try to sell it as the same thing when it clearly is not is just wrong.
In my opinion thinking that these huge companies supports you as a home brewer, or supports the craft beer industry is just foolish. They see you either as a dollar sign, or competition that needs to be destroyed. Don't be fooled by their marketing into thinking they are your friend, they have a marketing budget just for that.
It's not too far of a stretch to see the analogy being Germans and the Nazi party.
