Greene King IPA - How did it become a CBoB finalist?

mym a écrit :

Can't you quote properly, instead of cutting the sentence in the middle and then misinterpretating it ?!?

I quoted as much as was required.

I didn't. Read back over the thread, I said I was mildly unimpressed with that beer when I tried it - then i got jumped on and accused of demanding beer when it was not ready...

Enough of this topic though.

No you didn't, unless the intention was to try and make that sentence apply to the present rather than the actual state of it being the relating of an incident back in the past. By taking it out of the context you misquoted.

No, you were accused of expecting beer brought in as a late supply to be as good as the beer brought in on the earlier delivery and stillaged for a longer period.

Ah, I see...

Not how I read it. YMMV.

A subtle distinction. The effect is the same. Neither versions are accurate about my expactations or knowledge of how they manage the beer supplies - as I tried to explain, only to get the "We just can't win" post.

Well I assume it bores others, there's enough posts for people to make their own minds up (if they're that bothered). If you're worried I am cutting it short for some other reason I'm happy to take it to email ;)

No I didn't. I merely told you what happened to make us change what we did, which was a few years ago now. YMMV, but what I told you was an explanation not an accusation.

Your expectations aren't in line with the reality though.

Much as the bar staff would like to have a nice empty stillage and plenty of help to load it when it arrives and then give it a full length stillage period the reality is that these inconvenient things called customers not only get in the way of the immediate delivery and stillage but also make demands upon the time of the staff to serve them and just to be even more trying they haven't even had the decency to drink all the other beer to make sure the stillage is empty to receive the incoming beer.

Now, do note that although I haven't worked on the Great British Beer Festival bar in the last 20 years, but I have worked on various other festivals in various capacities so I do have a vague inkling of what the job entails.

Your expectations are an ideal which should be aimed for but will never be achieved.

OK. I'm happy to agree that misunderstandings occurred.

Thanks for the description of how things are done btw, it was useful to know.