THEY COME AND GO Mystery Cache
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They come and go, every hour, every day, year in and year out. Have a seat on one of the concrete sofa's and enjoy the view.
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Please bring your own pencil and put the cache back in it's original place! The cache is not in the coordinates specified above. You'll need to solve some questions, unless specified the answers are in English. In case of trouble you can always contact me for a hint.
Belgium is world famous for it's variety of beers. Some sources say we have more then 800 different brewed beers, some speak of more then 1200 and some drunks might even say it's over 2500!!! Anyway you'll need a lifetime to taste them all… and you better hurry up if you would like to accomplish this mission!!
To be able to find this mystery cache you'll need to search some answers regarding a special branch of Belgiums most famous beers "The Trappists" By solving the puzzle you'll learn more about these great beers and when you pay a visit to Belgium please enjoy them in one of the abbeys or local pubs and you'll understand what we speak of.
On to the mystery now you'l find nothing on the above coordinates, the real geocache location can be found in N34°3A.BCD E069°1E.FGH
Letter A: West-Vleteren has become world famous since june 2005 when one of their produced beers was titled "Best beer of the world" in the international Press. How many beers are brewed in the abbey of West-Vleteren?? A=?
Letter B: The Orval trappist has an animal on it's label. We are looking for the correct dutch name of this animal. Take the letter values according to A=1, B=2, ....., Z=26 and sum to one digit. (For example if the label has a "dog" it becomes "hond" and should give 8 + 15 + 14 + 4 = 41 => 4+1=5). B=?
Letter C: Trappist breweries have to follow strickt regulations to obtain the label"Authentic Trappist Product" which distincts them from regular abbeys and breweries. The ITA, International Trappist Association, imposes certain regulations to prevent abuse and commercial profit by anyone according to the following rules:
- The beer must be brewed within the walls of a Trappist monastery, either by the monks themselves or under their supervision.
- The brewery must be of secondary importance within the monastery and it should witness to the business practices proper to a monastic way of life.
- The brewery is not intended to be a profit-making venture. The income covers the living expenses of the monks and the maintenance of the buildings and grounds. Whatever remains is donated to charity for social work and to help persons in need.
Amongst the very few trappist breweries that meet these regulations we are looking for the 2 smallest breweries in Belgium. Search for their founding year (Wikipedia) and search C.
Smallest = IJKL
2nd smallest = MNOP
IJKL - MNOP = QRS sum to one digit and you will find C.
C =?
Letter D: "Chimay peres trappistes" is located in the Sourmont Abbey and is well known for her trappist. How many beers were brewed in the monastery anno 2011? D=?
Letters EFG: The trappist order originated somewhere in a monastery in La Trappe, France. From which order did the trappists originate (according to Wikipedia)? Find the word value of this order (10 letters) according to A=26, B=25, ....,Z=1. (wordvalue x 5 - 480=EFG) EFG=???
Letter H: There are not many trappist breweries around the world. Looking for this answer you will probably come across all of them but how many trappist breweries are there in Belgium right now? H=?
You can check you're answers below when in doubt, found the solution of to the geocache then!!
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Zntargvp, ybj gb gur tebhaq
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