LOL ... you dont understand WHY they charge more... They use REAL ingredients.. they dont have massive scale ... The big breweries buy the name... -blam!- the beer and sell it at same price.. but totally -blam!- UP the brewing process... by using cheap ingredients ... Go to a small local brewery... see how much these people LOVE beer ! Drink it... Then go to a MASSIVE brewery... see how much they love beer ;-) and drink it ... If you cant see the difference... by all means stick to mass beer... if you can.. Im sure you will favor small breweries... the difference is too huge not to notice ;-) IMBEV is biggest brewery in world ... from belgium...and not other country in the world has more independent local breweries then Belgium (per person)... the mass beer is mostly for export and people who want to get drunk drinking beer.... Real beer drinkers (who drink for taste) prefer real beer ;-)