The posted coordinates will bring you to the start of your journey. This puzzle-multi requires travel of a little less than a mile (by foot) round trip. It can be solved in 30 minutes if you do everything perfectly.
Beer consists of four main ingredients: Water, malted barley, yeast and hops. It’s all in the varieties and amounts of each that we get such a diverse selection of beer on the market today. This trip will have you visit three locations with excellent selections of beer, two of which produce their own. You do not need to enter any location to solve this puzzle.
Water is critically important to a great beer. It varies quite a bit in taste depending on the mineral content. In order to make a beer that tastes the same from batch to batch, a brewer needs to monitor their source of water to ensure its chemical makeup stays the same and alter it if it doesn’t.
Waypoint 1 (posted coords) is found at N 43 11.706 W 70 52.501
Malting a cereal grain is a process by which grains are forced to germinate by soaking them, then dried to halt the germination process. This produces special sugars needed during fermentation. Malted barley gives beer its sweetness and color. The posted coordinates and first stage is located at a local restaurant.
D = The number of letters in the first word of the name of the restaurant
E = Add one to the number of letters in the third word of the name of the restaurant and then subtract that number from the posted west coordinates
Waypoint 2 is found at N 43 11.D35 and W 70 52.E
There are hundreds of strains of yeast which impart their own flavors into beer. But equally important is the role yeast plays in fermentation. It’s main function is to eat the sugars derived from the malted barley and output both carbon dioxide (carbonation) and alcohol.
G = The number of letters in the name of the business
H = The number of letters in the name of the business divided by 2
Waypoint 3 is found at N 43 11.G56 and W 70 52.H36
A hop flower looks like a little pine cone. Hops are the flowers (also called seed cones or strobiles) of the hop plant Humulus lupulus, a member of the Cannabaceae family of flowering plants. They are used primarily as a bittering, flavoring, and stability agent in beer, to which, in addition to bitterness, they impart floral, fruity, or citrus flavors and aromas.
Enter the full name of the business into the geochecker to obtain the final coordinates.
You are looking for a nano. Please replace EXACTLY as found. And watch for muggles on the ground and in the nearby office building.
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