Being I live right on the Tecate border, I mostly started drinking tecate, dos equis, and Sol. I really didn't like any of them much in terms of flavor, but it was the norm; but then I started drinking other beers such as Bohemia, Negra Modelo, and Noche Buena. What really did it for me was the fact that there is so little variety in terms of beer in Mexico, that I was just completely disappointed (I wasn’t legal to get beer in the U.S.). The best I could get my hands on were Noche Buena (only during the Christmas season), Bohemia and negra modelo. I really liked negra modelo (Vienna style lager) but I wanted more variety and so I decided to brew. From there, I have been in complete shock as to how much variety there is to beer. Everyone around here thinks I'm the only person that homebrews in Tecate since no one has ever heard of such a thing before. The only other person I know that used to brew was a friends Grandpa. He is an immigrant from Germany (big time beer drinker), but he has left his brewing days behind him.