re: Is GITM available in most stores in BR or Covington?

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Where are you getting Zombie Dust? I had a couple in St Louis awhile back but never have I seen it anywhere else. I liked that beer.

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but the large shifts in flavor profiles we see in Ghost

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OK, tried to refrain from commenting - I usually don't get involved in any discussion about Parish on social media. But its friday and I'm procrastinating and avoiding doing real work. Hopefully this will answer some questions.

1.) Thanks for drinking our beer and supporting Louisiana brewed beers in general by discussing issues like this. Great stuff.

2.) We hear everything that is said about our beers and I'm an arrogant narcissist with control issues. If I think our beer isn't regarded as the best or great or whatever, I take it personally as a knock against me as a man and I'm going to lose sleep until I get feedback that is acceptable. I don't like to lose at anything. The pursuit of figuring how to make face-melting great beer is more important at this point than consistency batch to batch. Why can't a little brewery in Louisiana make beers that are as highly regarded as the "world class" (hate that term, by the way) beers of today? Not saying we are, but doesn't mean we don't try to be on that level or beyond. The only thing standing in the way is change. Change for improvement. Change to learn, for knowledge. I didn't know anything about making beer 10 years ago. But I think about it all of the time. I obsess about how to make amazing beer. I want people to drink one of my beers and say "wow". If we aren't aiming for that level of quality, I just wouldn't be able to sleep. We could just not give a shite and brew beer the same way people brewed 30 years ago with the same techniques and everything. frick that. I'd rather go explore and try to be better, try to win. A guaranteed way to be average is to do what everyone else is or has been doing.

3.) We haven't changed the way we brew Envie or Ghost at all for the past few batches. Same hops, same pH, same grain, same techniques. Any perceived change is due to a few things that are mostly out of our control: Hop variation, seasonal nuance in incoming water chemistry, and ambient temperature. The biggest variable is hops, as some have mentioned. We use literally hundreds of pounds in a batch and even from the same farm, same lot, the 44# boxes can be different. We received a few boxes of Citra from our favorite farm in December and I actually sent them back and had them replaced because I didn't like them. Same farm sent us replacements and they are more acceptable. If you ever get to go to a hop farm, you'll see that the hops on the lines in fields are all so different from one another. Some get more sun, some get more wind. Some bines are young and some have been growing for decades right next to each other. Go look at the produce section of the grocery, maybe say avacados or whatever. No two are alike. Some are more ripe, some are bigger, some are more round. Some have more skin imperfections or had a bird pecking at it. These hypothetical avocados all came from the same place, probably the same field. Likely the same tree. When we brew a beer with the immense quantities of hops like Envie or Ghost or Hoptagon, the subtle differences in hops are apparent versus beers like Canebrake, where you'd never know if we changed it from Cascade to Sterling or Liberty (which have done before).

4.) I've had lots of so-called "world class" beers and they are wildly inconsistent batch to batch. I cannot think of a single time I've had Heady and it be anywhere close to the same beer I've had the time before. And Jai Alai was used as an example, I have noticed plenty of variation in that beer too. It once was one of my faves and I've consumed gallons of it. It isn't perfectly consistent. I could also point to there being a direct correlation between inconsistency batch to batch and the amount of hops used in a beer. The hoppier the beer, the harder it is to be identical batch to batch. I resent the idea that there are these unicorn breweries out there with beers that are flawless copies of one another every time they are produced.

5.) Keep letting us know about what you think of our beers and I promise we will try to make them as awesome as possible. If you think they suck, I'll change the beer. If you think they are awesome or badass, we will make more beers like that. No one or brewery is perfect. We will screw up. We do it more than I would like to admit. And sometimes we hit home runs.

Cheers - Here's to constantly evolving and never being satisfied with average.

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We need a sticky goat thread

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