I believe I owe each of you a sincere apology.

[Tankard]

HBCsucks = me.

You probably don't know me at all. I was known as Brew Dude on HBT but I changed my name to Tankard a while back.

I want to apologize to Oflan, Cheesefood, Evan, and anybody else that I offended with my previous post. I was imbibing in a few too many homebrews last night and I happened to stumble onto this site by seeing a link in DrunkenSatyr's Xbox profile. I tried to add him as a friend, because he posted his gamertag on HBT a while back and told me to add him.

I have no excuses for my actions, and the fact that I wasn't sober is no justification. I mention this simply to explain what led up to the post.

I read a few posts that insulted HBT, and for whatever reason, I felt like I had to defend the site. I then remembered an incident about a month ago where someone by the name of "HBtalksucks" came onto the board and started making posts. Once I learned of this site, I rashly decided that it was someone here who did it, when in reality I have no proof at all.

The funny thing is, after thinking about some of the things you guys said about HBT, I realize that you are right. I have had my own share of problems with *some* of the mods on the site, and I am becoming more and more aware of the oppressive behaviors that some of them have. I found out the complete story of what happened to Cheesefood and Oflan after I made my post here, and I realized that the mods on HBT were clearly in the wrong. I can't really condone the action of banning somebody, for LIFE, simply for posting a "Goodbye letter." HBT must be the only site I know of that has a "Goodbye letter = permanent ban" rule, and frankly, it's bullshit.

To reiterate, I feel terrible for what I did here last night, and I hope that you guys can forgive me. Although I don't see myself leaving HBT, at least not yet, I would gladly support this site as well, given the chance. I realize that I made a terrible first impression and it may take some time to recover from that - I know this post will only whitewash over it a bit. Of course, I would completely understand if you would like me to not stay here as well. In that case, at least I have said my peace and tried to make amends.

Now that I'm clear-headed, I can see that this really is a nice brewing community. I'm sure with time it will gain even more membership and support.

Thanks for hearing me out. Now I'm off to build the collar for my keezer.

-Tankard

[Ó Flannagáin]

Hahahahahhahaha! You rock dude. I'd ahve done the same thing in your position. Fact is, we like to have fun with each other here and don't worry about making sure we keep the "business" running. You actually provided us some entertainment with yoUR HBCsucks account.. we had this whole dick tracy, private eye thing going on trying to figure out who it was. pretty funny stuff man. thaks for coming by and PLEASE hangout with us!

[Ó Flannagáin]

Oh yea, and sorry for talking shit about you in the Red Zone.. like I said, we were having fun with the anonymous HBT member that I thought was actually a mod over there. I guess that's what the Red Zone is for though


cheers

[PseudoChef]

Welcome man, props and respect for manning up. Don't worry about about dividing your time, as you'll see that a bunch of us still post over there as well. Just understand we're a smaller, more tight-knit community where post count doesn't matter and you don't have to pay to be popular.

We also like to make sour beers, so start throwing Brett into some of your fermentors

[Tankard]

Oh yea, and sorry for talking shit about you in the Red Zone.. like I said, we were having fun with the anonymous HBT member that I thought was actually a mod over there. I guess that's what the Red Zone is for though


cheers

No need for you to apologize, I deserved it.

Sorry to disappoint you though, I know it would have been more exciting if a mod really did come over here to start shit, but it was just me.....

[DrunkenSatyr]

Hahahaha....Perfect start to my day. Welcome to the board.

[Ó Flannagáin]

it would hav been hilarious if it was a mod... but oh well! WAY TO DISAPPOINT MAN!!!

[Tankard]

Could you possibly delete that other account, now that I've been unmasked?

[Ó Flannagáin]

I'll check on that for you. Haven't had to delete an account yet and not sure what that entails. If it's still around in a couple days keep on me about it.

[Tankard]

Normally I wouldn't really care, but the account name is insulting to the site. Thanks Oflan.