My pleasure Josh.
Women.... They are all evil!
Paul, I still wonder what Alice sees in you....
Cape, can't you become a minister and spin the Bog beer as a 'religious experience'? There you go... Holier than thou good beer... Right in Norton. Go Bog!
The only solution is to grow your hair long, put on a pair of sandals and head down to Julio's to turn over the tables of the money changers. Cape, that boil on the back of your neck is getting out of control.
The Trappists are a cloistered community best known for their silence. They aren't secretive, they just don't do noisy PR. They make beer and other products to pay their bills. They learned how to make a good Belgian pale ale (with a lot of help, from Pretty Things, their brothers in Belgium, Harpoon, etc..), and that's all they likely will be doing for a while. The recipe for this ale and the knowledge to make it did not suddenly appear on their altar in a beam of sunlight from the firmament.
Unless Cape starts wearing robes and brewing Belgians I don't see how this should be seen as competition, or even somthing to get pissed about. If anything, maybe it draws out some more people looking for a local craft beer experience, which might be something on which the Bog could capitalize.
That's it! Defrock them!
Here's my issue. (Couldn't hold it)...
From what I understand, and maybe I have been given bad info but... I don't think any of the monks actually had any brewing experience. They dropped millions of dollars on a state-of-the-art, top of the line brew house and then had some very well respected brewers from the area (I am pretty sure Dann from Pretty Things was instrumental) show them how to use the equip and even come up with the recipe... and now they're simply pushing buttons.
Trappist breweries have been around for hundreds and hundreds of years. These guys have been around for hundreds and hundreds of hours and you would have thought Ninkasi descended from the Heavens herself and started passing out beer.
The craft beer industry on the East Coast flames the &$@< out of certain breweries because they are contract brewers.... but no one apparently has any issue with these guys?
If some random guy showed up in Mass, plopped down $5mm on a brewery, paid brewers to show him how to use it and even come up with their one recipe, people would run him out of town with flaming torches... But since they simply have frocks on... Everyone is all aflutter?
That's crap.
Most people are just retarded... Well, you can't call them that anymore - it's intellectually challenged.
Someone didn't get a trophy?
How old is your daughter now?
6 and 3/4. She'll be 7 in May.
Because everyone knows that an aging bunch of monks trying to save their order from oblivion by establishing only the eighth operating Trappist brewery in the known universe - and with the unselfish help of a number of well regarded players in the brewing industry - shouldn't get any more attention than the 15001st for-profit brewery in the world.
Way to miss the reasons why folks are interested in this compelling story.
I wonder how well that rant would play out in a more public setting?
(Yeah, I know, "GFY" and all that...)
Cheers!
(ps: The Spousal Unit and I really enjoyed the first of the four pack. Delicious!)
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