Tripod
Well-Known Member
You know, I'm with Orfy on this one. I've heard people say many times, "Brew what you like", and then everyone heaps derision on those that like BMC. That's not the way I want to go mind you, but I can see people wanting to brew commercial style beers. It's often a goal of the first time brewer and maybe even some experienced brewers that have friends that like it.
I think that a lot of new brewers don't have a beer benchmark other than BMC. Particularly younger (therefore comparitively less experienced) drinkers haven't put in the time to try enough different styles to compare against. They want to brew BMC for the reasons you mentioned above and because it is their benchmark to compare theirs against and gauge how the first home-brewed batch(es) came out.
I'm not picking on any young people, by the way. I'm 37 and I can't possibly say I've tried everything there is to try...although I'm trying my best. But I have tried enough to evolve past BMC unless I'm kyaking down the river for 8 hours and don't want to completely dehydrate. It takes time to develope a knowlegable sense of many different styles. Until that happens, BMC is familiar to many new brewers. But that just my take on it...
-Tripod