Originally Posted by barbeler:
“Simply trying to perform a service for those who are fans of real ale and expect to find that a thread about it sticks to its subject matter. Anywhere else, all these intrusions would be described as spamming.”
No, you're being ridiculous. It's an 8 year old thread and it actually mentions bottles in the first couple of pages and numerous times throughout and there weren't histrionics and dummy throwing then. Threads evolve, if people were talking about lemonade or vodka, that would be daft but people are still talking about beer, a natural evolution. It's no different to a thread on Shiraz wine where somebody may say, "I also like a Merlot", a totally natural evolution and appropriate post.
Going by your logic it'd be "spamming" to mention cans or keg in this thread so therefore they need their own threads so a simple thing of recommending a few beers you've had on a night descends into 4 different posts over numerous threads which is silly.
What about the many beers available in all forms? It's far simpler to just have a thread where everyone just discusses beer. Not everyone who reads the thread is going to be as set in their ways and unwilling to try new things as yourself so many will probably appreciate reading about different things, I know that it's not just been myself discussing a variety of beer.