Cenosilicaphobia Challenge Mystery Cache

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BrianDiane: Given the ephemeral nature of the caches at this location, and the brews at various breweries, it's time to open this area to a new cache by a (we hope) new cacher.

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Hidden : 2/23/2012
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

In his delightful book “Cheers! An intemperate history of beer in Canada,” author Nicholas Pashley credits Lloyd Kelly with defining “cenosilicaphobia” as the fear of an empty glass. I’ll drink to that!

The challenge to this cache is that it’s exactly mid way between lostinthegarden’s wonderfully cenosilicaphobic VinOntario (GC2W44) cache and N45 1A.BCD - W75 3E.FGH.

 

To locate this cache, you must walk a straight line through the following steps:

 

1*. Open a bottle or can (or keg) of your favourite brew;

 

2. Scan the list of Ontario beers A-H listed below (somewhat paraphrased);

 

3*. Open another bottle or can (or keg) of your favourite brew;

 

4. Focus (if you can) on each paraphrased beer below and determine the brewery that produces it;

 

5*. Celebrate your success by opening another bottle or can (or keg) of your favourite brew;

 

6. Focus (or at least try to bring the blurs closer together) on the first two words of the name of each brewery and determine the digital root (DR) of the number of letters**. Add to or subtract from the DR according to the equations below to compute A-H;

 

7*. Celebrate your success by opening another bottle or can (or keg) of your favourite brew;

 

8. Try to locate your GPSr, try to turn it on and try to plug in the following coordinates: N45 1A.BCD W 75 3E.FGH and the final coordinates of VinOntario (GC2W44). Determine the mid point between these two locations;

 

9. Find a designated driver, biker or rickshawer to take you there and stumble up to the cache;

 

10*. Celebrate your success by opening another bottle or can (or keg) of your favourite brew.

 

LIST OF BEERS AND EQUATION FOR EACH:

 

A. breeze and canvas = DR+4

 

B. drag step = DR+0

 

C. not from a bottle = DR-0

 

D. crazy male = DR+1

 

E. reddish brown non-lager = DR-1

 

F. java redcap = DR+6

 

G. satan’s faded number = DR+5

 

H. defeat blackness = DR+5

 

Continuing my softening trend, I’m providing a disambiguiting example:

 

EXAMPLE: X. miserable wussy = DR+2

 

ANSWER Blue Lite, for which the first two words of the brewery are Labatt Brewing. The number of letters in these two words = 13, so X = DR+2 therefore equals 6.

 

*NOTE 1: Steps 1, 3, 5, 7 and 10 only refer to “open,” not “drink” – my lawyer made me add this.

 

** NOTE 2: In spite of the number of beta tests I undertook in creating this cache, I’m pretty sure in Step #6 I used the number of letters in the two words and not the numeric equivalent of the two words. Pretty darn sure. Yep - under the circumstances, I’d go for the easier method (hic).

 

You can check your coordinates for the cache location (plus or minus 30 m.) on GeoChecker.com.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Jrr Yvyl urefrys cynprq gur bevtvany pnpur ng n gerr fur pna frr sebz ure fpubbylneq

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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