that's a reasonable request, and one I have no interest in accommodating. You could scroll down to the last couple paragraphs, you could read one of the 50000 other beer blogs, you could accept that my writing is absolutely scintillating, you could do any number of things. You'll be fine.

Here at Deadspin we generally assume that our readers are at least somewhat intelligent people. A lot of other sites dumb down content or write for an audience of morons: we don't do that. But because we've gotten at least one dumbass e-mail, and some dumbass comments and tweets, I'm going to explain why what Ed…