tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post4530079065529410691..comments2024-01-29T10:16:00.995+00:00Comments on CALLED TO THE BAR : Dirty beerAdrian Tierney-Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05421802854011395300noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-34348922352291713222011-02-04T10:04:26.033+00:002011-02-04T10:04:26.033+00:00Thing is I’ve got too much else to do before takin...Thing is I’ve got too much else to do before taking on brewing, much as I would like to, I would like to make cheese and have my own hams hanging in the cellar, but I just about manage to get the vegetable plot up and running, so I would rely on the likes of Kernel, Thornbridge, BrewDog et al to provide my beer rock and roll; I know what you mean about the book analogy, I tried that once, a great Anglo-Welsh novel — all that happened was a wad of reject letters before it vanished in the great halls of the Amstrad 8512.Adrian Tierney-Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05421802854011395300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-92109695061761004112011-02-04T09:45:29.857+00:002011-02-04T09:45:29.857+00:00I don't know where you got the idea that I got...I don't know where you got the idea that I got the idea that you were having a pop at amateur brewing. And I'm not talking about faulted beers either.<br /><br />It's like with books: I've heard several authors say that they wrote the books they wrote because they couldn't find them in the bookshop.<br /><br />To a large extent, amateur brewers brew the beers they can't get in the pub. You can do stuff that would make no commercial sense for even the wackiest commercial microbrewery.The Beer Nuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14105708522526153528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-85812600983208514622011-02-04T09:38:25.216+00:002011-02-04T09:38:25.216+00:00I don’t know where you got the idea I was having a...I don’t know where you got the idea I was having a pop at amateur brewing, anyway I’m rubbish at it unless it’s a 10 barrel outfit with a proper brewer in charge (like Otley) — I am not talking about faulted beers, but beers with a rough and ready edge that really excite, beers that are faultlessly brewed but have that extra something that would possibly be lost on a bigger more populaist scale — to me the skills of BrewDog is that they maintain that edge, if we look at it another way for dirty think Raymond Carver for instance or Money-period Amis.<br />And yes the majority of beer drinkers would probably turn their hooter up at any IPA, you should have heard the Exmoor Ales regularin my boozer when Thornbridge’s Kipling swanned into town, ‘that’s not beer…’Adrian Tierney-Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05421802854011395300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-66533081626114089392011-02-04T09:25:19.054+00:002011-02-04T09:25:19.054+00:00I don't know what you've been told about a...I don't know what you've been told about amateur brewing, but it doesn't preclude the brewer from consuming other people's beer, or indeed from making clean IPAs as well.<br /><br />My point is just that it's a great solution to any lack of variety in one's drinking diet, especially when seeking something that "the majority of beer drinkers would turn their noses at".<br /><br />Actually, wouldn't the majority of beer drinkers turn their nose up at <i>any</i> IPA or otherwise full-flavoured beer?The Beer Nuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14105708522526153528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-69017845320777221862011-02-03T23:40:42.833+00:002011-02-03T23:40:42.833+00:00quote taken out of context your honour: however th...quote taken out of context your honour: <i>however that doesn’t mean that I want to drink dirty all the time, but it does mean that I want that option, to drink deeply of a dirty, pungent, swaggering, roistering IPA that the majority of beer drinkers would turn their noses at.</i>Adrian Tierney-Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05421802854011395300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-76625346311460811672011-02-03T23:33:57.352+00:002011-02-03T23:33:57.352+00:00I want that option, to drink deeply of a dirty, pu...<i>I want that option, to drink deeply of a dirty, pungent, swaggering, roistering IPA that the majority of beer drinkers would turn their noses at</i><br />So make your own. Sorted.The Beer Nuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14105708522526153528noreply@blogger.com