The whole thing is just making me cry. Especially because it appears to be written by a brewer at our nearby Fordham/Old Dominion and received some credibility through a link on Fordham’s facebook page.
http://breweryblager.blogspot.com/2012/03/lesson-before-homebrewing.html?spref=fb
Not surprising, I guess. Old Dominion has been been on my list of not worth drinking since the Virginia brewery got bought out.
I thoroughly enjoy the part where he says that you do not add aroma hops to a stout because “Stouts generally do not have an estery smell.” And that you normally chill the beer in the lauter tun.
I cried a little on the inside while reading that. I don’t even know where to start. He’s so aggressively ignorant, I’m sure there’s nothing anyone can say that could penetrate his smugness.
…psh it’s Blogspot. -5 credibility without reading it. ;D
The “photoshopped” picture made me laugh. Still wasn’t worth the time to read the article, though.
It’s not a he it’s a she and she isn’t a brewer. She works at a brewery. Obviously doesn’t know the first thing about it either.
I’m just sexist, I guess. I assumed from their tone they were a man.
Gender Analyzer got it right, though.
http://www.genderanalyzer.com/?url=breweryblager.blogspot.com
Gender Analyzer clearly states that I’m confused as to my gender:
http://www.genderanalyzer.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pikelakehomebrew.com
47% Man, 53% Woman. :o DOH!
The pedant steps up…
Language has gender, people have sex.
The pedant dodges the flying tomatoes and sits back down
i have to take your words for it. the article was written so poorly i could not get past the first few paragraphs. let alone the context at the start -gentleman, fight, church. good Lord. not worthy of the time (posting is though)
Bah dum bum…ching! ;D
I’m more perplexed by her brewery linking to her blog. It’s one thing to denigrate homebrewers and homebrewing, it’s another to link it back to your brewery. I’m all for private citizens saying whatever dumb crap pops into their head, but this seems like bad business.
I told my wife about the esters-from-hops thing, and she said “What?! I don’t know anything about brewing, and even I know esters are from yeast.”
I’m waging my own small battle…
Based on a real quick examination of the page, why do I get the feeling that the blogger who wrote that article is the same person as the one who runs the brewery facebook page?
T-Rex was about 65 million years before the La Brea tar pits, none found there. She got that wrong too!
I think everyone here is taking this too seriously.
I don’t believe you can take beer too seriously. I’m mostly of German ancestry, though.
You’ve spent too much time on Wikipedia when you read something like that and start looking for the “edit” link…
I’m mostly German too, but I’ve been very indifferent about a lot of issues lately. People take things too seriously and take them too far. Maybe I’ve been drinking too much of the water lately…
It’s hard for tone to come across on the internet. I was (mostly) joking.