GroovePuppy
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Sorry guys but I have to vent to someone. I posted earlier in the week about how crappy my last experience was at the LHBS, how they dissed my Nut Brown Ale recipes that I got on here and the advice I was given.
Today I swung by to pick up an extra airlock, bung and blow off tube so I could make Apfelwein tomorrow. I swore after last week I'd limit myself to just buying stuff and not ask for their input. So I get the airlock and bung and I ask the woman behind the counter for blow off tubing that would fit the airlock center shaft and she asks what I need it for.
Now I should have ignored the question but I told her I was making AW in a 5 gallon carboy and wanted to be on the safe side. So she gives me a big patronizing lecture on how what I'm doing is wrong and I should make less to avoid losing any. I explain that the Montrachet yeast you guys usually use apparently doesn't foam and now she sneers and tells me what a cheap and nasty yeast it is. I explain it's supposed to be a low-budget carboy filler and that I'd gotten it in a forum. She says "and have you tried any of the beers these guys make?"
What a stuck up old sow. It's not like I've tried any of hers! She may brew effluent for all I know. She certainly looks like she drinks a lot of vinegar. She actually took the blow off tube off the counter and put it back before I said, no, I'll take it anyway. So she doesn't believe in "better safe than sorry"? If they think blow off tubes are so unnecessary why do they stock them. They even have them right at the counter like every second customer is going to buy one.
You know I shouldn't expect better. In the Sonoma wine country anyone remotely connected with wine has their head so far up their arse that the only thing they can taste is their lower intestine. So if you're ever in Sonoma County be aware that the folks at the Beverage People in Santa Rosa are some of the most condescending, patronizing, supercilious, pretentious, puffed up, self important twats you could ever hope to meet. Right now I have no intention of ever setting foot in the place again, which is a real pain in the pisser as I need 2lbs of corn sugar for the AW. However I will substitute with rat poison before I buy it from them!
I am so freaking mad you wouldn't believe it! I need a beer!!!!!!
Today I swung by to pick up an extra airlock, bung and blow off tube so I could make Apfelwein tomorrow. I swore after last week I'd limit myself to just buying stuff and not ask for their input. So I get the airlock and bung and I ask the woman behind the counter for blow off tubing that would fit the airlock center shaft and she asks what I need it for.
Now I should have ignored the question but I told her I was making AW in a 5 gallon carboy and wanted to be on the safe side. So she gives me a big patronizing lecture on how what I'm doing is wrong and I should make less to avoid losing any. I explain that the Montrachet yeast you guys usually use apparently doesn't foam and now she sneers and tells me what a cheap and nasty yeast it is. I explain it's supposed to be a low-budget carboy filler and that I'd gotten it in a forum. She says "and have you tried any of the beers these guys make?"
What a stuck up old sow. It's not like I've tried any of hers! She may brew effluent for all I know. She certainly looks like she drinks a lot of vinegar. She actually took the blow off tube off the counter and put it back before I said, no, I'll take it anyway. So she doesn't believe in "better safe than sorry"? If they think blow off tubes are so unnecessary why do they stock them. They even have them right at the counter like every second customer is going to buy one.
You know I shouldn't expect better. In the Sonoma wine country anyone remotely connected with wine has their head so far up their arse that the only thing they can taste is their lower intestine. So if you're ever in Sonoma County be aware that the folks at the Beverage People in Santa Rosa are some of the most condescending, patronizing, supercilious, pretentious, puffed up, self important twats you could ever hope to meet. Right now I have no intention of ever setting foot in the place again, which is a real pain in the pisser as I need 2lbs of corn sugar for the AW. However I will substitute with rat poison before I buy it from them!
I am so freaking mad you wouldn't believe it! I need a beer!!!!!!