The Pol
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How bout those of us who WEREN'T nay sayers???
Those of us who maintained the the arguments were the typical bs that happens when a new idea is presented...you know, the "intellectual devil's advocate/conjecture/masturbation. Some of us were with you all along in light of the mere fact that they were doing it in OZ???
But I'm still in your will for your brewing rig, right? I mean you are in a high risk career after all.
Am I in a high risk career? I mean, more people die in automobile accidents, so I suppose that someone who simply drives to work 5 days a week, when I only drive to work ONCE a week, would be at a much higher risk of dying in general. Hrmmm, in either case, dont tell my life insurance carrier that! I have $1 mil on myself for less than it costs me to put liability only insurance on my 1992 Celica each month
It was a constructive conversation, but I really do grow weary of people who say something WILL NOT work, when they have never tried it and have no practical experience to back up thier claim.
I never claimed that it WOULD work, just that may, and it was silly to say something was not possible when you had no data to support such a claim. If you are going to say that it WONT work, you should have a failed experiment to show it, especially when others DO use the process and have shown that it DOES work. Sometimes, I think people just like to disagree, to disagree, even if they have no means by which to back up thier argument.
Just the other day I had an HBTer, nice guy BTW, shocked when he heard I added GRAIN TO WATER, and not the other way around. Why I asked? Because Palmer said that you should never do it. That is where "rules" of brewing are born, I just think that we are an intelligent bunch and we can and will find a way to navigate what is just propaganda. I dont like following, or followers...
Look at a homebrewing book from 20 years ago... tell me what you see. If brewers then didnt innovate, look at the mess we would be in!