The Naughty Nurse Email Archive
If you reached this page after searching for information about the beer named
"Naughty Nurse", which used to be produced by the City Steam Brewery, I am afraid you will be disappointed.
The beer was named after a real nurse, a man named Gerald Nicholls. This site is about that man.
More specifically, it is about his emails.
Nicholls was once an active member of the Underground Brewers of Connecticut,
a homebrew (beer) club based in New Haven and Fairfield Counties. Nicholls severed ties with the club in
about 2018. In the years since then, Nicholls has harassed a number club members, sending a long string
of abusive and insulting emails alleging various wrongs.
The recipients of these emails have tended to keep quiet their contents secret.
This is not surprising. The insults can be intensely personal and deeply nasty. But the unintended
result is that Nicholls' public reputation remains clean, allowing him to prey on others without
consequence.
As the latest target of a barrage of such emails, I have decided to take a
different tack. I am publishing these emails to establish an open and viewable record of the abusive
behavior. Those who doubt the severity of the attacks may read the emails and judge for themselves.
Please note that everything below is Nicholls' own writing, his own words.
These are the complete emails as received, raw and unedited except that I have redacted the names of
third parties. I have tried to maintain Nicholls' original formatting. I will continue to add emails
as I receive them.
Paul Hayslett
May 7, 2025
Greetings Paul … thanks for revealing that you lack the intellectual ability to express yourself with
intelligence.
If this is what current members think, then clearly, what was our wonderful, vibrant club, has devolved into a
childish, petulant group with clear ego problems. Under my watch we had TOO MANY MEMBERS. Shame on you. [redacted] and
[redacted] deserve more respect than this.
Under you, the club is shriveling and you know it. Grow up and stop being so jealous.
Unlike you and [redacted] and [redacted] I believe in science and humor and as [redacted] still says, “The new
people don’t realize that it is just beer.” Feel free to tell him that he is wrong.
I will be there at [redacted] with copies of my book. [redacted] and [redacted] and [redacted] are so proud to
be in it. Oh dear, I just realized..is THAT why you are so jealous?
ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
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ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
The Naughty Nurse..who inspired the biggest-selling craft beer in Connecticut over two decades….and formulated
Two Roads Espressway Stout.
Sleep well.
Note: This email's subject line contained a misspelling of my last name.
Nicholls is also apparently unaware that I have not been in a club leadership position for some years.
June 12, 2025
Ho ho ho what’s it like to have such valueless, shallow, humourless lives? You are praising [redacted] but
HE AGREES WITH ME, not you Anyway i will be there ….instantly
recognizable by my huge smile. I might not recognize [redacted] though because he is apparently
really fat now. Anyway i shall be there and you can introduce the
people to me who don’t want me there….Oh dear…there’s a problem there because it is just you three. Still,
The Underground Flat earth, anti-science club shows you three to be pathetic, weak, humourless, anti-
science folk taking beer far too seriously. Your flimsy egos show the real you…..according to [redacted] PhD
psychology…..brewer who still likes laughing AT you. Please bring all your certificates because they are the
only things which seem to have value in your lives. By the way I have been invited by [redacted] and
[redacted]…fresh in from [redacted]. Will you prevent them talking and laughing with me? [redacted],
all-America winner of pale ale, mocked you as pathetic when I told him I was banned. he said I AM the
heart and soul of the club. Feel free to call him and tell him he is wrong. But you are too weak and
insecure to do that aren’t you?
The Naughty Nurse who ran the club in its heyday….before you ran it into theground.
"There" refers to a club event which Nicholls is not allowed to attend due to
his persistent attacks on nearly a dozen of the other attendees.
June 12, 2025
Perfect, Paul Hayslette, no I didn’t misspell your name. As [redacted] would say..I was taking the piss…giving you a
feminine ending as in French. In the glory days we would all laugh at this. humour..but there again you told me you
HATED Santa’s Silly Ale competition. By the way your redactions look very intinidating but they' re mostly [redacted],
[redacted] and [redacted]. Yes i insulted you to emphasize how weak you are…[redacted] ( don’t redact) told me that the
newer brewers don’t realize that it is JUST BEER. The beer judge form which I find insulting, [redacted]
said…the new form? Is this how far we have come in 40 years?
Yes I insult Hayslette, [redacted] and [redacted] because you did not respond to the polite emails i sent to them…and the
insulting ones from [redacted]. It works both ways.Watch out members..Haystack is selective with what he publishes. They
did not respond POLITELY to me so I tried to stir them up. Ooooo booo hoo one Englishman can take the piss out of
another by calling him FAT.
Let me interject….successful professional brewers like [list redacted, some names misspelled] all like
me and we socialize happily.
I abuse brewers who refuse to entertain science and answer my polite emails. . How many times have i offered to give a 3
hour presentAtion on flavor…and invited a panel discussion/debate.
Challenge. I AM OPEN TO DEBATE UNDER DEBATE RULES
`Finally..I have NEVER tried to push My book.
That is a lie Haystack. Apologize to me immediately. The VA hospital asked
me to help them with throat cancer patients. Ask my publishers and they will confirm that i went out of my way NOT to
publish until doctors begged me to. Apologize NOW!!!!! Man up and grow a spine ( abuse). Look me in the eye and tell me
these lies next week. Now publish every word of this.
Truth seeker The Naughty Nurse
I direct the reader back to the May 7 email where Nicholls specifically says "I'll be there
... with copies of my book". I also note that an entire website exists to promote and sell the book:
https://flavorflimflammery.com/. The tone and content of that site would
indicate that Nicholls had an active role in creating it. Note also that the book's publisher is listed as Palmetto
Publishing, whose website describes the company as "Your One-Stop Shop For Self Publishing", so it is unclear who
Nicholls is referring to with "my publishers" - himself?
June 12, 2025
Greetings, The Underground brewers' most successful brewer ever is [redacted] of [redacted]. We have been close
family friends since we were at his wedding. You weren’t invited?? Boohoo.I told him that you have banned me and he said
you morons don’t understand what the club is/was. he thinks you are jealous idiots. Please phone him and explain to him
if you disagree. Underground Brewers run by weak, jealous pathetic pieces of anti-science dross. I’ll explain to one and
all at [redacted]. People believe funny people over angry jealous, frowning fat people.
This is going to be fun as the club used to be. Please phone [redacted] and [redacted] now if you have the balls….OK, trick
question - you don't
June 12, 2025
Gentlemen, I demand an apology from [redacted] because he posted on the club website regarding the meaning of the YAHOOS
name. He wrongfully denigrated the origin. Only I know the origin. I DEMAND an apology for his insulting, totally
incorrect post. I demanded it at the time but he ignored me. Very rude and disrespectful [redacted]. Remember that it was me
who got you into the club in the first place. You want to talk about insults….I have more from him including when he
wrote that i talk CRAP. Very insulting. You MUST post this as you threatened and I have plenty more until the club
members tell you to grow up and that they are tired of your pettiness and lies. I am happy to face-to-face any and all
if you can get past my hysterical laughter. In truth and honest science. The naughty Nurse.
This email was sent to several of us. It is not at all clear what website post Nicholls is
referring to. No post discussing the origin of the club's alternate (and now defunct) name currently exists on the club
website. The rest of the email concerns an ongoing debate over the claims Nicholls makes in his book on sensory
perception.