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  • March Madness has a hold of me (blog post): "Great Birthday Beer Off: Round One" http://shar.es/mHvwd #

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    How this will work: my friends and I will try two beers; each beer will be competing against the other; and one will be declared the winner. After, we’ve reduced the group to 6, I will choose one that was the best of the bunch based on a highly subjective index that’s so complicated I can’t even explain it myself. Enough talk, let’s drink.

    ROUND ONE

    Dogfish Head's World Wide Stout

    The World Wide Stout is marketed as “a very dark beer brewed with a ridiculous amount of barley.” It doesn’t let you down. It’s a complex beer with a liquor after taste and a kick that makes you shiver. It tasted like it had been strained through a dead person’s veins – that telltale hint of formaldehyde gave it away. It made one person’s lips curl, which I assume is same face a dogfish makes.

    Hitachino Nest's Celebration Ale

    The Celebration Ale is “brewed with vanilla beans and spices.” It had a sweet flavor with a hint of orange after taste. It seems they decided they wanted to get creative and ran amok. I felt like my tongue had been attacked by Jackson Pollock.

    THE WINNER: Hitachino Nest’s Celebration Ale

    In the end, the question was which one do we disliked the least. I can only hope this experience gets better as time goes on.Similar Posts:

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    (cc) Andrew Turner

    I have been spending most of my waking life on a project I just finished. One of the tools that allowed me to maintain my inner-Fonzi was my ability to quickly create several kinds of visualizations. I’d like to say it’s because of some innate ability, or the some unique genetic confluence , but it’s actually because sophisticated visualization tools are now available to the masses. I thought I’d share what I’ve found to be valuable.

    Periodic table of visualization methods: helps you decide on which method to use based on several dimensions, and it just looks really, really cool. http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html#

    CmapTools: a free concept mapping tool that allows individuals to collaborate online. It’s not intuitive, but it’s extremely useful. It too looks cool.
    http://cmap.ihmc.us/conceptmap.html

    XMind: another free tool for creating several kinds of visualizations (fishbones, org. charts, flow charts, mind maps, and concept maps). It’s intuitive, free, can be used collaboratively, and can be opened on any OS (meaning Mac users are included). If you want to do a complicated concept map, CMap is for you, but if you want to do almost any other kind of visualization, try XMind. It maketh YOU look cool when you finish a map.
    http://www.xmind.net/

    Research and Resources: a site about each dimension of visual literacy. They made the periodic table mentioned above; so, they have a great deal of knowledge to share in this field. These folks are cool.
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  • @mandellbrad Holy crap that's good news. Welcome back! in reply to mandellbrad #
  • I'm sick of grant writing. There I said it. #

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  • Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! #
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  • @jentolbert Sorry 2 say, you have been hacked b cuz I got a filthy message from u that just doesn't fit your history. :'( #

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  • Framing = what my Droid does with the word dreaming if I miss one letter. I like that. #
  • I am framing of playing EVE and doing wormhole ops. Yet, I have to do work on my day off. :'( #

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  • @tammideville Awwah. I'm glad I could help. in reply to tammideville #

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  • @buffawhat AMEN! Me neither. No mediator of the office drama for me thanks. #

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  • @jsmooth995 Chuck D had white kids in rural farm country wanting to fight the power & we are all better for it. Thank him for me if you can. in reply to jsmooth995 #

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  • @ChrisVanPatten Gameboy emulators? You are so fracked. lol in reply to ChrisVanPatten #

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  • Who DOESN'T like that first SIP if coffee? #

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  • Someone shud make "Zombie-worker says Your coffee or your brains." t-shirts. #
  • @Katglimmer Awwah, I give u final jeopardy fail face. :'( in reply to Katglimmer #

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  • @chrismessina Stomping grounds would be a clever name for a coffee shop. in reply to chrismessina #

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  • I'm like Cartman and his cheesy poofs when it comes to cheddar cheese rice cakes. I'll eat em like it was personal. #
  • @Katglimmer Well, I guess through process of elimination I'm on the Who The Fuck Are Ya list. ROTFL in reply to Katglimmer #
  • RT @kevinpurdy: Boxee? XBMC? Windows Media Center? Lifehacker explains the differences and charts the features: http://bit.ly/bOqwi2 #
  • RT @buffalogeek: If the @BNPartnership was worth a damn, they'd start something like @civiclab Anyone want to underwrite my fixing? #Buffalo #

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