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Beer Cheer 22 - Tsingtao

Feb 27, 2010 21:59

When buying groceries today, I nearly squealed when I saw sixers of Tsingtao in the beer aisle. Of course, I immediately placed one of the packages in my cart before finishing my shopping. I was sure I reviewed Tsingtao before, and was surprised to find I hadn't. Admittedly, I've enjoyed this Chinese beer many times ( Read more... )

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Yay beer! vindonnus February 28 2010, 03:38:33 UTC

I'm such a beer snob... But I think a metric (including recommendations) is less meaningful without some range and a reasonable distribution over that range. I mean, if you recommend everything it ends up being like recommending nothing, no distinction is made and no conclusion can be drawn. That said, it also gives a lack of recommendation more bite. Hmmm. I guess it's kinda like my grade inflation.

That said, Tsingtao is, indeed, a very pleasant drink... And your review makes me yearn for some beer. :o)

Re: Yay beer! nexrad February 28 2010, 03:49:05 UTC

Much agreed about having a proper range for conclusions. For beer, though, the only bad beer is one that you can barely stomach and has no redeeming points! ;-)

On such, I suppose my beer metric is ordered...

"Highest recommendation" (Rare, per my past reviews)
"Highly recommended"
"Recommended"
"Eh" (or something else)

I consider myself a "beer snob" as well, though if it has C2H5OH in it, I'll apt like it just fine. That's probably not a good thing!

Good to know your metric! vindonnus February 28 2010, 04:24:34 UTC

Thanks for the metric info! Mine is based on letter grades (duh) from F- (not found a beer that bad yet) to A+.

Re: Good to know your metric! nexrad February 28 2010, 04:27:27 UTC

The letter grade deal reminds me too much of the classes I teach. I'd rather stray as far from work as possible. x_x;

Haha! vindonnus February 28 2010, 15:24:12 UTC

Which class do you teach?

nexrad February 28 2010, 18:03:12 UTC

It varies per the department's needs, but it seems they like me teaching statistics and math-type courses.

Gotcha! vindonnus February 28 2010, 18:22:43 UTC

Good taste in courses to be teaching. As a bioinformatician I approve wholeheartedly.

Re: Gotcha! nexrad March 1 2010, 17:53:17 UTC

Biomathematician, eh? - Small world! ^^

Officially I'm an psychologist but am being trained in complexity science and dynamical systems. One of my current projects is running simulations of gene interactions using a mathematical model.

I'm trying to escape the wet world vindonnus March 1 2010, 22:20:31 UTC

I have too much experience in wet lab work... I'm trying to get more in silico work back into my diet by returning to graduate school, hopefully it'll work.

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