Comments on: Beware The Squeal

By: jbx

jbx — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:03:04 +0000

Early in my stay in SWFla, I found beers from Shipyard and Seadog Brewing companies [Maine] that use British Ringwood yeast.

I confirm the inter-web report that the yeast imparts powdery, musty, creamy butteriness [diacety] notes; I found the taste a refreshing change from piney, citrusy Cascadia 2X IPA. Pleasant but failed the sessionable test.

Apparently both of breweries are jointly owned by two English ex-pats; Alan Pugsley and Fred Forsley. Pugsley has his name on some limited release beers.

By: joe

joe — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:55:47 +0000

Beermented – no problem with Jared having an opinion, we all do and I’m fine with that, in fact there are plenty of times when the the criticism is warranted. My objection, and I could have done a better job articulating it, was that it wasn’t relevant to the post and in my opinion (sheep can have those right?) detracted from it.

I don’t get the impression the brewing ego in Portland is swelling, I do however believe there is a subset of beer drinkers in Portland that carry themselves in an off putting, holier than thou, way. Those egos are swelling, but you know what, they’re easy to ignore.

As far as Migration is concerned…well, only time will tell. Perhaps the IPA and pale will give them the stability to experiment and create something truly amazing as time goes on. I hope they make it, everyone should have the opportunity too pursue their dream occupation.

By: Beermented

Beermented — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:46:42 +0000

Feel free to take as many cheap shots at Portland as you like. The brewing EGO in Portland keeps swelling. I’m waiting for Brewers head to explode in public. They deserve it.

Joe… Jared can have any personal opinion he wants. It’s all about free thinking vs. mindless following. Shepard or sheep??? ;-}

BTW, speaking of pissing on Portland. Did ya see the new Migration Brewery is open? Yee Haw! They’re gonna brew a Pale ale and a IPA!! Wow! That should keep that brewery thriving. Maybe they’ll get lucky and find some blind sheep to follow the lost shepard. :-0

Ready for another posting there Jared….. Apricot pits are getting a little stale.

By: Jared

Jared — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:15:57 +0000

It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of Portland, but that comment was more of a joke aimed at Beermented. I guess it was a cheap shot though.

By: joe

joe — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:16:11 +0000

Seems like an unnecessary cheap shot at Portlanders to me. The post was great, I thought it was a neat angle on the potential unintended consequences of experimental brewing, then you throw in that last comment. I just don’t get why you feel the need to diss Portland all the time.

By: Jared

Jared — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:44:18 +0000

Which part of that comment didn’t you like Joe?

By: joe

joe — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:08:08 +0000

Does this mean all those butter bombs Portlanders consume are killing them?

WTF?

By: Jared

Jared — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:40:33 +0000

I guess I did a bad job at showing it, but I take the FDA’s warnings on herbs with a few grains of salt. The FDA tends to over react…. Brewers however should be looking at the stuff their putting in their beer.

BTW Diacyetyl has been suspected to be toxic but naturaly occurs in beer. Does this mean all those butter bombs Portlanders consume are killing them?

By: Beermented

Beermented — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:17:52 +0000

How amount THC, Psilocybin and Peyote?? Those cant be dangerous?