So I come home (follow the Mr.BEER video) and do nearly everything wrong, (left it in a basement that got to hot, bottled after 2 weeks without a hydrometer ect..ect...)
I panic a bit when the temps get out of control (80-81 degrees) and find the Mr. BEER forum.
The people are so nice and helpful. I get turned in the right direction (cooler with ice, a thermometer taped to the LBK, a ton of great info, all kinds of reading.... I was hooked!
Then it happened. 1 month into my schooling I get the rug pulled out from under me with some God awful management decisions and HORRIBLE forum conditions.
They basically castrated my knowledge base. Left me standing in the cold. Lost my car keys. Locked me out. Screwed my pipeline of information.
I could have made a better forum out of some old scrap metal and my 233 MHz IBM Aptiva that I bought back in '97 for $1500. (don't laugh it had Bose speakers on the monitor)
At the rate they're communicating and/or "fixing" shit over there everyone will be GONE by the time they figure out how to add a freakin' PREVIEW button. ProBoards would have been a better choice. (and that's saying something)
So here I am. Early in my beer life but much wiser from my 1 month of coaching by some really fantastically helpful people. Thanks to jivex5k, here I am.
All the while the other board seems to be just sitting there... broken down. A shell of it's former self.
