Comments on: The Corrections

By: The 'golden ears' problem | Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog

The 'golden ears' problem | Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:49:49 +0000

[...] taste the difference between good and bad beer, however often they try? If that’s the case, it doesn’t make them idiots — it makes them [...]

By: Bailey

Bailey — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:45:55 +0000

Ghost Drinker — we had a feeling we wouldn’t be the only ones to have had run-ins with what we now know to be ‘blowhards’.

Craig — ha!

Jeff — a key moment in any beer blogger’s ‘career’ is saying something very definite about IPA or porter based on a casual reading of a history of beer only to see a comment from Martyn Cornell or Ron Pattinson appear in your WordPress/Blogger dashboard…

By: Boak

Boak — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 06:42:10 +0000

I am, indeed, delighted to be described as patient. 10 years ago when I hadn’t tamed my inner nerd I would probably have got into a shouting match which I could never have won.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 03:40:56 +0000

Having to correct yourself—that's a bit humbling as well. Speaking from experience, of course.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 02:42:39 +0000

Ya’ know what?

My name is Craig and I’d appreciate being called that, rather than “Nearby Bloke”. For cripes sake I’m American, at least call me “Nearby Dude,” ya’ friggin’ bunch of sheep.

Ah, comedy!

By: Ghost Drinker

Ghost Drinker — Thu, 31 May 2012 23:22:13 +0000

This is brilliant. I have so many similar conversations where I work and can’t really ever repeat them, because that’s where I work. I can repeat an episode of where an older gentleman thought all the 600 different beers we sold tasted exactly the same – tasting of CO2 and nothing else… I tried to convince him otherwise, but he was having nothing of it. Sometimes some people are too stuck in their ways and unable to budge from their own notions of what beer is, and should be. It’s disappointing I know, but there’s not much you can do to persuade some people.

By: Sid Boggle

Sid Boggle — Thu, 31 May 2012 19:15:38 +0000

Nope. You’re a misanthrope.

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 31 May 2012 18:48:52 +0000

I would so love it if somebody started up a beer blog under the name of Nearby Bloke… Even better if it was that person, obviously.

By: Jeff Alworth

Jeff Alworth — Thu, 31 May 2012 18:00:56 +0000

Nearby Bloke should start his own blog. It’s an incredibly useful tool in fostering humility. Once you’ve been corrected, publicly, 419 times, you no longer attempt to keep up the pretense of “expertise.”

Worked for me!

By: Bailey

Bailey — Thu, 31 May 2012 16:39:28 +0000

Glyn — yes, that’s the only geeky thing about you…

Others — when you’ve built your whole identity around being the beer/cricket/movie expert, I guess it’s understandable to feel a bit threatened.

Jon — maybe we’ll do a follow-up post on the positive side of geekiness to redress the balance.