tedski
Well-Known Member
Sore subject? eh, not really. I just dont like the trend Ive been noticing of forum users making their LHBS folks out to be unhelpful, conceited, and/or complete buffoons. Because at the shop I work at, no one is like that. Ill readily admit the owner might give some advice to people that I might not do myself, but that is because there are many ways to do things, not because the man doesnt know how to brew beer. In fact, that couldnt be further from the truth!
A lot of the advice we give might be catered more towards newbies, and advanced brewers might find more help online. And sure, there is probably a lot of strange advice out there - perhaps the employees were idiots, but I havent heard anything at my shop that would make me jump in the conversation and challenge them.
BTW, the LHBS bashing Ive seen other places than just this thread. Sorry if I took my defensive stand out on you...
I was not trying to discredit the LHBSs advice. The LHBS has more exposure to quantities of small scale brewers than most other sources of information. I agree that there are many ways to do things, and that's part of what my original post was about, not bashing. I was merely presenting an alternative method that was presented to me and reasons why I wouldn't use it.