Once you’ve spent enough time hanging around your local homebrew shop, you’ll know “the question.” You’ll hear it too much to ever forget it—it’s on the tongue of half the new brewers nervously eyeing all the ingredients and gear.
“So, yeah, my buddy and me, we wanted to make some beer—you know, like Bud or PBR. How quick can we do that?”
The question—when posed—always gets more or less the same answer: “Unfortunately, that stuff is the hardest to make. It really takes a lot of time and patience and gear. How about our Blond Ale kit instead?”