What's in Your Beer? Or, The Dangers of Dumbassery

[Wings_Fan_In_KC]

Remember that article by that idiot "The Food Babe"? This is a well researched rebuttal.

What's In Your Beer? Or the Dangers of Dumbassery

[Wings_Fan_In_KC]

Just the title alone calls out the author of the other hit piece on beer manufacturing.

Dangers of Dumbassery.

I love that.

[russki]

Thanks for sharing. Unfortunately, there are many gullible idiots out there who will think anything posted by other idiots on the internet is true. Glad someone posted a rebuttal to "Food Retard's" drivel.

[evily]

Very interesting and informative article! Thanks for sharing!

[Tabasco]

Very interesting and informative article! Thanks for sharing!

Evily!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good to see you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tabasco]

Thanks for sharing. Unfortunately, there are many gullible idiots out there who will think anything posted by other idiots on the internet is true. Glad someone posted a rebuttal to "Food Retard's" drivel.

I've considered, but not resigned myself to, most stuff posted anywhere about brewing. As a result, I've disregarded most "rules", and like my beer.
I do notice that most people in this borg, and the old one, post stuff that is good to know. I've taken more than I've given as far as knowledge, but have settled on very simple methods, and like to share when I can. I don't scoff at more sophisticated methods, I admire them. It's all good.
Always been a good borg. I'll read that article later, going somewhere now, but THANKS.

[Wings_Fan_In_KC]

This is what the Borg is all about to me. I got a sh*t ton of help from many brewers on the old (before if was effed up) MrB forum. I came to see that as my home and I posted there at least daily. After I got comfortable with the process of extract brewing and adding hops, DME and other things to make a better beer, I began to gradually speak up and offer advice to the newest of the nOObs. At one time I had as many "Thank You's" as The Hat and The Nong.....something I was happy about as that meant I had helped a lot of folks.

Since this is our new home.....I'm still trying to ferret out useful info (much like RickBeer's posts of late) to pass on within the confines of the Collective. Your thanks is appreciated but certainly not expected.

[mtsoxfan]

It can be tough to trust a source you don't know. Around here, we pretty much trust each other and their info. Thanks to all.

[Yankeedag]

I come with my own disclaimer...

... or I use to...

oh well, if you don't know I'm apt to talk poo by now, may the Beer Gawdz have mercy on your Trub!

[jhough]

Lord knows I've learned alot from the wise ones here. So I guess my beers are made with Nong Poo Magic Hat sauce ,just to name a few ingredients !

[haerbob3]

they get all riled up about what may be in a beer. yet they gladly down huge amounts of diet-pop with the all those nice nasty chemicals in it, YIKES!!!!

[Chuck N]

In the "old Forum" The Hat had the best response to crap like this. If you're gonna scare people about stuff that "could harm" them then really get them scared.

Read this stuff and be very, very scared: http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

[Rayyankee]

Thankls for the read. Not surprised by the amount of B.S. written by that broad against beer. glad to see brewers respond with out yelling but by being factual.

[FedoraDave]

Great article. Thanks for linking to it, Wings.

I am always struck by the difference between the shrill scaremongering of bloggers like Food Tard and the reasoned, measured responses such as those found in Ogle's article. Those approaches alone should signal who is informed and who is just trying to stir things up.

Sadly, many people are only looking for things which support their own paranoid points of view, and anything that points to corporations or a faceless "Them" as being evildoers poisoning their customer base for the sake of filthy lucre resonates with them, and is embraced as gospel, whether poorly researched, written with an obvious bias, or otherwise containing half-truths or even outright lies. Even when presented with informed, scientific rebuttals, many of these people will respond with something like, "Yeah, but...." and fall back on their boilerplate arguments (which are themselves based on half-truths and paranoid scaremongering tactics).

Happily, the truth has nothing to be afraid of, and it shows in the confident and informed rebuttals in the article.