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For the uninitiated, the point of brewing your own beer seems to be elusive. So, you know you can buy beer, right? Why are you brewing it yourself instead? Doesn't that take a lot of time? Does it taste like this beer? Questions like this are likely to come raining down on you when you tell someone you brew your own at home, so it is worth having some answers to them. 

For example, the question about whether you can brew one that tastes like A.N. Other commercial beer. This is something you can do, and indeed there are threads on message boards all over the Internet devoted to telling you exactly how you can do it. However, this raises a question of its own: If you want that beer, you could just go out and buy it. Why try to make it yourself when your brewing station is entirely different from what they use? You are likely to end up with something that tastes similar but not the same. 

The best reason that has yet been advanced for doing what is described above is as follows: Plenty of people have tried a commercial beer and enjoyed it, but thought inwardly “that could be a little bit better. I'd really enjoy that if it had a little more x in it.”. By brewing a similar beer yourself, you can get around that problem and have some enjoyment into the bargain. After all, enjoyment is why we go for home brewing in the first place.