I agree that the paper had a tone to it and it truly turned me off. I had some contact with a number of those guys and some of it was fine and quite a bit of it was not good. I was always open to the idea of it (many here were not) but what I wanted to do was find my own way through it but when I talked with some of the GBF guys about it they were so rigid about everything. I mentioned a few things that I did with SMB, BTB, etc. and they basically just laughed at me when I told them about some of the steps I had taken. I haven't really had contact with them since.
Slight derail, but that's some straight-up bullshit, bush-league behavior right there.
Another reason why this beer forum is my preferred one; i don't ever recall anyone here treating a fellow brewer like that.