How many people have you converted to good beer?

[reinstone]

I have noticed that many people will drink free homebrew. The question is, of the people who have tried your beer; how many have stopped buying American light lager......except on occasion and started either brewing themselves or buying craft beer? I have converted 8 to date. It's a great feeling.

 

[Bensiff]

I live in a neighborhood of hardened MGD and Bud drinkers, they enjoy my easier going brews quite a bit but still stick to their macros. Maybe they are just cheap and are happy drinking better stuff so long as they don't have to pay the price. I can't really blame them, $8 is the average six pack and $15 for a 12 pack where I live. Going to the grocery store is getting so damned expensive I think folks are just trying to save money where they can.

 

[Xpertskir]

1.5...

My girlfriend from a red eye(bud light/tomato juice) to the biggest hop head I know. The process took all of 9 months..lol

My dad is half way there, he has a few brews of mine that he absolutely loves..but Im still waiting for his aha moment.

 

[forstmeister]

It's not the number of converts for me, it's about the difficulty of the convert. I turned my father into a homebrewing-craft-beer-buying-maniac. He was already over 65 years old when it happened too. If I never turn another, I will still be happy that my father has found such happiness in retirement. His father was a terrible homebrewer by all accounts too, so it took me several good batches to gain his trust.

 

[Bensiff]

It's not the number of converts for me, it's about the difficulty of the convert. I turned my father into a homebrewing-craft-beer-buying-maniac. He was already over 65 years old when it happened too. If I never turn another, I will still be happy that my father has found such happiness in retirement. His father was a terrible homebrewer by all accounts too, so it took me several good batches to gain his trust.

There's your one

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

I have noticed that many people will drink free homebrew. The question is, of the people who have tried your beer; how many have stopped buying American light lager......except on occasion and started either brewing themselves or buying craft beer? I have converted 8 to date. It's a great feeling.

None. Budweiser is good beer. Says right there on the can that it's the king.

But, like any king, it has a right time and a right place.

 

[mysteryshrimp]

I think that I'm about to convert someone to homebrewing. She's Celiac (no gluten), and my cider is the best she's had. She's virtually placing orders for the next batch. We were talking on Sunday how easy it is, and she said that her dad used to make wine and she can get carboys from him. I think she's ready.

My brother has stopped drinking Natty, but has also slowed down drinking anything. My dad rarely buys beer but has virtually stopped buying Mike's now that he has my cider.

 

[JohnGonk]

Im victim to the homebrew bug! A good friend got me into it a little over a year ago. Now I've tried having other friends trade in their miller and bud lime for some good craft beer. Ive only been successful with one guy out of six...wtf!!

 

[Shakybones]

I could only get two into the fermenter and that was a big mess, so I guess I'm limited by volume until I upgrade.

Is there anything US-05 won't do?

 

[lebucheron]

1, me.

 

[m3n00b]

I'm woking on converting my Mom from BMC light. I made a cream ale and a kolsch that she loves.. but still buys crap.

I converted an mgd drinker at work with a red ale.

 

[reinstone]

I think I've converted a lot of people just because I ask them if they like draft beer....and they almost always say no. Then I say pour that can in a glass and smell what you are drinking. If that doesn't work I hold them down and pinch there nose and pour a good beer down their throat.

All kidding aside I have two large parties a year and I have a few beers on tap....up to 8. I don't ask people not to drink macros but I don't supply it. I also make sure all my patriotic friends know that you cannot find American light lager made by an American company. But these same people who whine and complain about buying cheap toys from china, and curse Walmart for killing small time businesses. The whole time they are sucking down that beer they support the monopolization they oppose.

I try to keep people informed, when you think about it, a microbrewery is one of the few businesses where what goes in and what comes out is American.

I just tell my father, you like your Belgian beer in a can? He will reply that this is a great American beer, an innovation. He can drink it and like it but its not American. So as long as he knows that and makes that choice I'm cool with that. I just make sure people know.

I find it funny when the kings of industry try to hide the fact that another company is owned by them. If ab/in bev is such an icon they shouldn't have a hard time marketing an ipa with some bs name like true west coast ipa of kings- made in saint Louis Missouri from pure crisp mountain springs.

 

[Subsailor]

I have quite a few in my family and friends that like what I brew; beer, wine, mead, cider - what ever. Have any of them given up BMC or mainline supermarket stuff, I don't know and I don't know if I care. It is their choice. What's important to me is they like what I offer in my home. Only my oldest son has tried homebrewing on his own and that with a Mr. Beer Kit.