Joel Plutchak wrote:

Brian Lundeen wrote:

"Lew Bryson" wrote:

What, you don't see what good I'm doing out there for beer awareness? Son,
I've been toiling in this vineyard for longer than most craft brewers.

Umm, kind of a mixed metaphor there, wouldn't ya say? ;-)


Not if he's toiling away toward brewing something like
Cantillon's Vignerone Lambic. ;-)

Vineyard, hop field... big leafy climbing vines. What's not to like?

Besides, Lew "gets" vino now.
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dgs

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Joel Plutchak wrote:
Brian Lundeen wrote:
"Lew Bryson" wrote:
What, you don't see what good I'm doing out there for beer awareness?
Son,
I've been toiling in this vineyard for longer than most craft brewers.

Umm, kind of a mixed metaphor there, wouldn't ya say? ;-)

Nah, Biblical. It's all biblical in these days of Mel Gibson's apocalypse.

Not if he's toiling away toward brewing something like
Cantillon's Vignerone Lambic. ;-)

I was thinking more Southampton Peconic Reserve.

Vineyard, hop field... big leafy climbing vines. What's not to like?

****in' A.

Besides, Lew "gets" vino now.

Yup. Said so myself, and I ain't allowed to lie much at all no more.

--
Lew Bryson

www.LewBryson.com
Author of "New York Breweries" and "Pennsylvania Breweries," 2nd ed., both
available at www.amazon.com
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or respond to it. Spam away.

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Joel Plutchak wrote:

Expletive Deleted wrote:
Despite Joel's valid critique of it, ratebeer and similar sites have
credibility because they're a fairly representative sampling with alot of
data (given, representative only of the world of "beer geeks").

Just to clarify, My peeve isn't so much with the sites
themselves, or even the usefulness of most of the content.
It's really specifically with the kind of "these are the
top 10 beers in the world" conclusions that people draw
from them.

Clearly. Given anything so subjective as taste, no such conclusion could
be drawn from any source.
But used as a predictor of "will I like Beer X", then the more credible
the source, the better predictor it is.

Just to clarify, My peeve isn't so much with the sites
themselves, or even the usefulness of most of the content.
It's really specifically with the kind of "these are the
top 10 beers in the world" conclusions that people draw
from them.
--
Joel Plutchak "Senza la birra tutto diventa orfano."

Exactly, because we already know the top 10 beers in the
world:

1. Corona w/ Lime
2. Heinekins
3. Corona Light w/ Lime
4. Yeunglings
5. Rolling Rock
6. PBR
7. Anchor Steam Porter
8. Flat Tire
9. Bud Rice
10. Guinnessee

Bruce Reistle

Bruce Reistle wrote:

Exactly, because we already know the top 10 beers in the
world:

1. Corona w/ Lime
2. Heinekins
3. Corona Light w/ Lime
4. Yeunglings
5. Rolling Rock
6. PBR
7. Anchor Steam Porter
8. Flat Tire
9. Bud Rice
10. Guinnessee

You mean "Molsen" didn't make that list?