Who is this guy??? lol

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Point: Your mom.

Counterpoint: Your mom.

I do agree with both sides: I recently said to my wife that I didn't know why I kept brewing, because my first two batches were crap (well, crap and severely mediocre). I took over six months off, stopped going to HBT, etc. Then suddenly I went back to it. She said 'you kept with it because you love it': I went PM for my third batch, then AG with Ed's Haus Ale for my fourth. I knew I could do better, and I kept at it (though I posted on HBT before I bought my kit, so again I'm in the 'research' minority).

On the other hand, I don't want someone tossing a can of malt extract and a few pounds of table sugar into a bucket and saying it's the same stuff I make. The first time a friend came to my house I handed him a glass of my first AG and he said something like 'Some of my friends make beer but I actually like this.' We've discussed it elsewhere, but the majority of 'homebrewers' probably make <5 crappy extract batches and give up, but not before giving some to all their friends/family/coworkers who come away thinking homemade beer sucks.

Alas.

 

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I'll just place my 2 cents right here.

The thing I'm concerned about is new guys thinking this is the way to do it. Sure, we can all be PC and say, "well if he likes it...", but he's more than liking it, he's making ****ing instructional videos. Let's be honest, that beer has to taste like ****. I don't want new guys that could go very far in this hobby seeing these videos, trying it out and quitting after one batch because it sucks ass.

I agree. If someone watches their videos, brews "the modern way" and gets crappy beer, they might not want to continue homebrewing and tell their friends that homebrewed beer tastes like crap. The only thing we can do about it is make better videos.