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Re: So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery (2014)

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Post by victor9000 » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 2:18 AM UTC

SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #298

victor9000 wrote: post #293

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Sure, if a specific style calls for a pile of hops then of course it will end up very hoppy. But generally speaking, your average west coast beer will be more hoppy than its east cost counterpart.

A specific, extremely popular style that literally has "east coast" in the name.

Sure, but think outside the scope of a single style. If you compare two pale ales from each region, the west coast pale will undoubtedly be more hoppy than the east coast version. To the point where many west coast pales can easily pass for an east coast ipa.

Re: So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery (2014)

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Post by optimuspaul » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 3:29 AM UTC

meddlepal wrote: post #238

optimuspaul wrote: post #146

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This. I definitely see a certain culture of men that glom onto things like beer or bicycles or coding and making that their identity. It is because of this that they are seen as "Mentrifying" those hobbies. I do think that there is some risk in those groups alienating those without the same passion from becoming involved in those hobbies. In fact one of the reasons I don't golf anymore is exactly this. Golf culture i…

I think the key to enjoying golf is to learn to play by yourself or play with people that aren't interested in competition. I agree "golf people" are insufferable that's why I avoid them as much as possible.

totally, but hard to get a course to yourself. To be clear it isn't the people I am playing with but the others on the course at the same time.

Re: So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery (2014)

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Post by ljm » Sun, Dec 08, 2019, 3:04 AM UTC

Chris2048 wrote: post #285

shkkmo wrote: post #263

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> Competition is why our modern standard of living is what it is. Yet you can say the exact same thing about cooperation. I would argue that cooperation is atleast as critical an ingredient here as competition. Indeed, the infrastructure that allows me to view the comment you posted depends on open standards, open source software and generally could not have existed without groups of people working together to accomp…

> cooperation, freedom and passion are more important than competition, greed and ego These things aren't mutually exclusive. You can compete as a team and with the help of friends.

I see what you're both getting at and to me it's a case of the life you want to live.

Ego isn't going away any time soon, and you will never know anyone who has renounced their ego, because only ego wants you to share that.

Competition can be a lot of fun, so that's ok. As long as it's not driven by jealousy or envy.

Greed - we all have psychological impulses that make us think that one thing is not enough and we need more of it. Most of us do that now through our careers. Including me, I'm still pushing for the bigger paycheck.

Greed and ego can easily be symptomatic of unstoppable freedom and passion. We sometimes call that perfectionism and it's a curse.

All in all, it's not as simple as it looks unless your ego tells you that it's actually that simple for you. In which case...