Not at all wrong to like your stuff best.... as it SHOULD be
I'm increasingly less impressed with commercial beers I buy in a bottle/can, however sometimes I think I'm just biased, short-sighted, or just being unfair. What I find myself doing more and more (and better and better) is actually
tasting the beer and deciding how
I could make it better (I know, the narcissist in me
). What needs to happen is a local brewery needs to hire me as their head master brewer because my sh*t is THE BEST and they'd make a million bucks on my brews. Better yet, I need to open my own brewery with pub on the front so all locals can enjoy truly great beers
.......
.....back to real life (and off of my high horse). I do really like the beers I produce and think they are getting better as my understanding of process (and implementation thereof) increases. Commercial beer DOES cost too much. I remember the $6 a 6-pack days (not THAT long ago) and I was OKAY paying the extra cost, but $9-11 a 6-pack IS too much especially for the occasional (and more frequent) mediocre sh*t. Even when I say that "I'm learning how NOT to make an amber/red ale", I still find I enjoy it better than the majority of what I can buy locally.
....and I don't have a good ending so....... thank you, drive through
Edit: BTW, a bastardized version of Denny's Waldo Lake is in my horizons