Comments on: Laissez-Faire Barleywine? Yea or Nay?

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Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:50:00 +0000

[...] porch, newly outfitted with lights, which makes it a lot easier to see. Between a bottle of our Laissez-Faire Barleywine (which is delicious), Avery’s 14th Anniversary Ale (which is also delicious) and the newest [...]

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:57:20 +0000

The late, great author of the books “Free to Choose” and “Capitalism and Freedom,” Milton Friedman.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:39:22 +0000

to me, Laissez-faire suggests you let it ferment naturally. Or a bug got in it and you’re trying to pawn it off as intentional. Maybe it’s just me that does that.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:26:28 +0000

I am thinking of a general mob scene with one of the members holding one hand up in the air holding a stein.

Quote: “Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, – one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: it is the Gospel of Despair!â? –Thomas Carlyle

By: Grimalkin

Grimalkin — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:04:52 +0000

I second Stonch.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:24:46 +0000

@Walter:

This is precisely the problem we ran into earlier with our favorite barleywine name Triple Dog Barleywine (from the infamous “triple dog dare”). We don’t want to use “dog” in the name because of Flying Dog.

Stupid Flying Dog.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:36:28 +0000

This is a different angle all together. You wanted to keep people away from the beer. “Keep your hands off” (obvious some liberty with my translation) leads me to “Guardian” or “Protector”. And from there I can’t help but think of Maximus and the movie Gladiator.

Just the rumblings of someone trying to avoid work…