Quote Originally Posted by travisKR
Even with all the negativity spewed by CCF and their ilk,
Nonsense!!

I showed you NOTHING but a persistent attitude based on OBVIOUS issues with ANY sort of weed rating system. If you want to call names, at least be a man and dialogue before you get snitty. Damn it, I AM NOT trying to turn this into a feud. HOWEVER, educated and enlightened individuals NEED to be able to work through things together without acting like a bunch of 5th graders. Damn Americans we all are.

So look, let's take a breath, ALL of us. I don't have time to read all of this but KR, since you have now openly taken a personal shot at me, maybe you could be so kind as to actually take issue with one of my points and talk about that. Because I'm not seeing any of that. Let's start here.

1. I doubt any of you have a pallet like I was born with and have spent 10's of thousands of dollars training in everything from wine to cheese to different types of cinnamon. I'm a mutant, and I work at developing the gift. Anyone ever spent an afternoon blind taste testing different cinnamon? I have, and do, it's a love of mine. I don't eat fried food or refined sugar, or any one of several other taste robbing "foods".

I then put my money where my mouth is and said that I would openly accept a challenge to said pallet using the only accepted standard I could think of. If you can think of another one, please let me know. The bottom line is that I simply can taste things that 9,999 out of a thousand cannot. And I can explain them. So, really, KNOWING what I KNOW, why should I believe people who say that their credentials are, "We've been around it for a long time"? Has anyone who is an accepted EXPERT ever told you that you know what you're doing?

This isn't just at you KR, but the whole process reeks. Bryan and these guys see it from one perspective, I see it from another.


I am willing to have anyone's pallet put against mine. We can go to a brewery if you want, as long as their in house rep or the brew master is there. We can write down what we each taste and have him look at it. He KNOWS what he's doing when he built the beer, and he KNOWS what's in there. We'll see who understands what and who should be telling who what something smells or tastes like. Fair enough? Again, money and credibility where my mouth is. That USED to be the American way. Now it's all built on the show and credit. I'm like Missouri, "Show Me".

Question is, if I can taste it, and I know most all of you can't based my layman's understanding simple genetics, and my reviews don't match up to yours, why should I not say something? I'm not trying to sound like a prick, but I know what I have. And are we not community? Do we not all have a right to speak if it with love and charity?

I don't deserve to be called names for merely pointing out the flaws in the system.