Thing is, you can make good beer with Mr. Beer. I took 3rd in a LHBS competition with a Mr. Beer recipe. There's nothing inherently bad (or good) about Mr. Beer beer. It's simply small-scale, extract brewing.
The reason so many Mr. Beer noobs fail is they can't follow directions. They genuinely think they're gonna get drinkable beer in two weeks with the thing.
The biggest downside to Mr. Beer is the cost. Like any pre-hopped extract though, it sure is easy to toss together. Ingredients to fermenter in under 30 minutes.
Congrats, thanks for proving what I've believed all along, it's not the method, it's the brewer who makes great beer.
That's the point why SOME OF US rather than just diss the keg, actually help people on the MR beer Thread to make better beer. To teach instead of just putting it down...or making jokes about it. But nah, it's more fun to make jokes and trash something than it is to actually contribute what you know, to actually help somebody...
It doesn't take much to turn even one of those canned extract kits into a decent beer...with some proper information..
Hell, I just tasted a year old mr beer modded recipe, the last one I ever did using any of the mr beer lme (I think it was the california common)...With some crystal steeping grains, a couple pounds of amber (or maybe dark) Dme, and ounce of hops, a can of pumpkin which I had roasted in the oven, some brown sugar and mollases, and some spices, plus the knowledge I had gained from books and from on here, I made a decent Pumpkin Porter, which a year later, I would stack up with some of my best brews, including the partigyle pumpkin porter I am drinking now....AND i bet if I handed it to any of you haters you'd probably think it was a pretty good pumpkin beer yourself....
I'll say it again...it's not the ingredients, it's not HOW you brew, it's not WHAT you brew, nor is it what you brew with, it's the brewer that makes good beer.
You all diss it, even those who started with it...but don't forget one thing...when you made your one or two f-d up batches, you didn't know **** about brewing....and you followed the instructions (just like the people who follow the instructions on the Cooper's kits)..I betcha if you went back and brewed one of those kits, now, with everything you've learned SINCE you got that kit...I betcha you'd make a decent beer too...SO rather than blame MR Beer, why don't you look back at yourself as the rank amature you were back then, and maybe blame some of it on yourself as well, or cut Mr Beer some slack...
And at least to impart some of your wisdom to someone who got one of these with the anticipation of making good beer...Many of Those people that I first met and helped on that thread, are regular contributors on HBT now...and some are quite happy with the little brown jugs, and the beer they make...so why not support your fellow brewers?
But nah, it's waaay more fun to be EAC, or to hate than it is to help, isn't it???
