Kevin's beer blog has been on top of PourGate since it began, and my guess is that he won't be the first local citizen journalist to report on the health department's ham-fisted retaliation. Perhaps even accredited local media will come sniffing, too. It's possible, right? As the thus far fruitless search for adult supervision in county government continues, kudos to 502 Brews for giving a damn.
FCHD Apparently Unaware Human Pathogens Don’t Grow in Beer, by Kevin Gibson (502 Brews)
... New Albanian Brewing Company’s ongoing battle with the FCHD has been well documented, and Roger Baylor reported on his blog recently that the department had taken a photo outside Bank Street Brew House of a FCHD truck. Naturally, all following the story wondered what the department had up its sleeve. The answer to that wonder is the photo above, which apparently was posted on the department’s website with a headline about how hard the department is working to “keep food safe,” and captioned with sad rhetoric about the dangers of food-borne diseases: specifically, human pathogens that cannot grow in beer.
The suggestion, of course, is that the FCHD had at some point been dispatched to Bank Street to deal with some sort of health issue, which of course is entirely untrue.
The health department has officially gone too far, and has made itself look vindictive, pathetic and even a bit stupid in the process. In fact, it’s a bit offensive to me that those behind this lunacy honestly believe they can sway people with such tactics. In essence, they are insulting the public’s intelligence by assuming we don’t know the difference … or are too lazy to simply look up the facts on Google, as they should have done. So, honestly, we all should feel we’re part of this battle, and should be as angered by the public injustice, and this slap at our collective intelligence, as Baylor is.
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