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Else, or Hell no! bad about leaving it alone. To this
To demonstrate this thesis, I chose beer, you might say, "Eh… I'll drink
Sierra Nevada's Beer Camp Across it again if there is nothing else
the World, a collection of around."
collaborative projects containing
twelve different kinds of beers. For
the sake of brevity and to eliminate
redundancy, I have chosen four of
these twelve beers to illustrate how
these categories might work for the
average beer drinker.
The Eccentric. Simultaneously
intriguing and off-putting, the West
Coast Style DIPA gives off an aroma
almost identical to peeling a The Nice Guy/Gal. The Dunkle
grapefruit. However, upon taking Weiss, a German-Bavarian style beer,
your first sip, you experience bursts tries very hard to be well-liked. It is
of sweet citrus akin to biting into a neither inoffensive nor off-putting.
slice of tangerine. The sweetness With 5.7% alcohol, this beer smells
lingers for a brief moment before it's like a fresh spring breeze across a
overwhelmed by the taste of sour field of grass sprinkled with patches
grapefruit, causing your eyes to of newly blossoming flowers. Upon
squint and your lips to pucker. Upon your first sip, you are greeted by the
swallowing, the aftertaste is bitter, familiar taste of cherry candies, like
but not unbearable. This beer is very the ones the old ladies at church carry
much like the eccentric person you'd in their purse. Molasses, mild and
meet at a party. These people hold watered down, are also noticeable
your attention until the conversation within your first few sips. As you
begins to sour, veering off into topics continue to drink this beer, you even
in which you have no interest. You notice hints of cocoa powder, like the
wonder whether this West Coast air you breathe in through your
Style DIPA, boasting of 8.3% mouth while pouring hot cocoa mix
alcohol, is something you can, or into a dry mug. Upon swallowing
even should, actually finish. But your first sip, you experience a mild
finish it you do because it feels like chocolatey finish, and every sip after
such a waste, this far into the pint, to that is consistently the same. Like the
stop. Not only that, but you have no Nice Guy or Gal at the party,
one else to pass it off to, and you feel everyone spends some time with this
To demonstrate this thesis, I chose beer, you might say, "Eh… I'll drink
Sierra Nevada's Beer Camp Across it again if there is nothing else
the World, a collection of around."
collaborative projects containing
twelve different kinds of beers. For
the sake of brevity and to eliminate
redundancy, I have chosen four of
these twelve beers to illustrate how
these categories might work for the
average beer drinker.
The Eccentric. Simultaneously
intriguing and off-putting, the West
Coast Style DIPA gives off an aroma
almost identical to peeling a The Nice Guy/Gal. The Dunkle
grapefruit. However, upon taking Weiss, a German-Bavarian style beer,
your first sip, you experience bursts tries very hard to be well-liked. It is
of sweet citrus akin to biting into a neither inoffensive nor off-putting.
slice of tangerine. The sweetness With 5.7% alcohol, this beer smells
lingers for a brief moment before it's like a fresh spring breeze across a
overwhelmed by the taste of sour field of grass sprinkled with patches
grapefruit, causing your eyes to of newly blossoming flowers. Upon
squint and your lips to pucker. Upon your first sip, you are greeted by the
swallowing, the aftertaste is bitter, familiar taste of cherry candies, like
but not unbearable. This beer is very the ones the old ladies at church carry
much like the eccentric person you'd in their purse. Molasses, mild and
meet at a party. These people hold watered down, are also noticeable
your attention until the conversation within your first few sips. As you
begins to sour, veering off into topics continue to drink this beer, you even
in which you have no interest. You notice hints of cocoa powder, like the
wonder whether this West Coast air you breathe in through your
Style DIPA, boasting of 8.3% mouth while pouring hot cocoa mix
alcohol, is something you can, or into a dry mug. Upon swallowing
even should, actually finish. But your first sip, you experience a mild
finish it you do because it feels like chocolatey finish, and every sip after
such a waste, this far into the pint, to that is consistently the same. Like the
stop. Not only that, but you have no Nice Guy or Gal at the party,
one else to pass it off to, and you feel everyone spends some time with this
