Why Homebrewing?

People are already asking me why I decided to start brewing my own beer. What got me started was watching a Samuel Adams commercial on TV. It was a commercial advertising their annual "Longshot American Homebrew Contest" Basically, people that make their own homebrews can send in a couple of bottles of their homebrew to the Boston Beer Company (maker of Samuel Adams) along with the recipe they used, specific gravity, etc. And if they select yours as one of the winners, they will bottle it and sell it. I don't even remember whether or not they pay you, but watching people homebrewing on that commercial got me thinking. I thought it sounded cool. Then, I went to the Samuel Adams website where they have videos of Jim Koch, founder of Samuel Adams, demonstrating all the steps to homebrewing on video. It's free on the website, so I recommend checking it out. To get to the videos. Click on the "Promotions" link, then click on the "Longshot" ad. Then look for the link that says, "Watch the Art of Homebrewing". After watching those videos, I was sold. Then I bought the book called, "Beer School: Bottling Success at the Brooklyn Brewery" It is the story of a couple of guys in Brooklyn that homebrewed for a couple of years, then decided that they could maybe make some money starting a microbrewery. This brewery became the Brooklyn Brewery. They have been in business for about 20 years now, and they are quite successful. I read that book over the course of a week, and was compelled even more to try making my own beer. So, here I am. I am excited about this first brew, but I do not have high hopes, because there is still so little I know about the art and science of brewing, but that comes with time.