I know I know, I'm starting to sound like an appologist for Jamil.
First - datamike. great first post. welcome to the forum.
Edit: Not posting to this thread anymore (much to everyones releif I am sure) I'm starting to sound like a bloody evangelist and I'm shitting even myself. Appologies.
On the first sentence - wrong.
On the second sentence - correct.
On the last sentence - wrong again
Before I get to you Thirsty, can I say welcome to datamike as well. I reckon that was a brilliant first post on this forum and I hope that mike posts a heap more. The way that you have written datamike, shows that you don't mind expressing an opinion and by the style of your writing, I'm guessing that if you ever found yourself to be wrong you wouldn't mind being corrected either. That's the sort of attitude that is tops and that bconnery referred to in his post above. (Ben's post, like many here already, I think is worthy of heaps of thought.)
Anyway datamike and ben, I loved your posts and I've actually really enjoyed reading nearly all of the posts above. Not often you get the priviledge of that in a single thread.
Let's get to Thirsty now
Thirsty, you are not sounding like an apologist for Jamil and you are not sounding like an evangelist.
You need to post a lot more. The posts that I have seen you do have had a large impact on me and others. Often large impact posts get no replies because, 'What can one say?'
You're a hard bugger to reply to because you always make sense.
I'm trying to think of any post I have seen of yours that I disagree with and can only think of one. After some communications between us, I now think you are right and you now think I am right - lol! (We really need to work that one out!)
I say you need to post a lot more because, as I have said to you recently in private communications, the stuff you have directly sent me is brilliant stuff and totally informative. It's such a shame to see it hidden away.
I reckon datamike and everyone here reading this thread would really enjoy and appreciate the wealth of knowledge you have sent me personally. The way you write to me is in a style everyone loves.
Don't hide your talent away Thirsty. I know it's bloody hard writing stuff here sometimes. Like me, you write long posts. I delete or severely edit my long posts that are badly written, uninformative, off-topic or non-sensical at the earliest opportunity
The occassional good post I do gets left here and often gets no replies. I find out months later that one thing I wrote made sense to one brewer. That's good and I love that! (It's not as bad as I make it out to be - bullshitting here! I usually get thanked pretty soon for the occassional good advice I might give privately if not publicly
Your stuff is a tad more advanced and thought-provoking though.)
What I'm saying to you is write more and
never delete what you write. Too much value there.
Now, I had actually prepared an essay on my opinion of some well-known brewing experts but I think that can wait until tomorow
It's a pretty scary, high-risk post so I certainly don't mind waiting another day - lol.
Does anyone else totally appreciate Thirsty's posts or is it just me? I know a heap of you do so, for God's sake, send him a PM or better still, post here.
This is PistolPatch, who I think is now in serious trouble from Thirsty! (He's going to hate this post!)
But, he deserves the attention.
Don't you agree?
What's that saying? For evil to triumph requires good men to do nothing.
Probably the same when it comes to brewing advice.
Spot,
Pat