Funny, the OP didn't have and issue with anyone's answers, in fact he thought the responses in this thread were, in HIS VERY WORDS, "gentle."
All right, all right, I admit I should have searched through the threads first. Sorry, it had been on my mind all night and I had 2 minutes to dig, so I chose starting the thread. Not trying to be a troll
If it shows anything, it's that the community here is willing to jump in and help, even if it's been asked before. Thanks for being gentle, gentle-men.
I always find it amusing when, even if the original poster doesn't take offense to what is happening IN HIS OWN THREAD, someone else feels the need to be "indignant" for them.
I think most folks were more getting at the point that the OP wanted this thread to be some big controversial debate, when as many have said, it's no longer a debate, or a controversy- it's now seen as a mainstream choice these days.
Some folks thought he was trolling, though I didn't. But the tone did put folks on their guard.
It's not a big scandal like it was oh those many years ago when folks were trolled on here for DARING to believe that autolysis wasn't the rule rather than a rare exception and MAYBE John Palmer might not have been a brewing god, infallable, but may have made a mistake in his belief in that.
Now it is really just a matter of deciding to secondary or not...not that one method is any worse then the other.
Additionally, I truly believe that when folks start a thread, they
truly want information. If I ask for some info, and someone points me to where the best info is, I don't feel shut down,
I'm thankful. Especially if where I'm being pointed to has what I'm looking for.
Had "people with a lot of experience" just chosen to ignore this thread, the OP would have gotten basically a handful of inexperienced brewers with very little insights, nor would they necessarily been pointed to
exactly where on here the answers to what they were looking for.
No-one's really stifling discussion on here. But in honesty if the OP really wants INFORMATION, then, well personally, I would rather be steared in the direction of said info, rather than maybe have a thread where the last 2 or 3 folks on here who haven't answered it a million times do so.
And all the folks most experienced in this topic ignore it, because they feel they've said it all in great detail already......
The information we've already posted doesn't vanish...it's here as long as the internet is. It can be tapped at any time.
And in this case, there's a lot of great info and opinion, in depth in THAT THREAD.
Me, I don't care whether the "opinions" or information is fresh, or not, I just would rather have it be good, and varied. And in reality, it wouldn't be if it were just here in this thread.
Just my two cents.