One of the things that we often do after a day spent geocaching is to go out for a good, locally made craft beer, no matter where we find ourselves, or what season of the year. It seems fitting, then, to craft a puzzle about the beers we enjoy. The cache is not located at the posted coordinates. Difficulty rating is based on puzzle; Difficulty of finding the physical cache is a 1.5 once you've got a green light on the solution checker. FTF honors went to toolrep1.
Answer the beer trivia questions below to find the correct values to plug into these coordinates: N42 AB.CDE W87 FG.HIJ
A. Jeff of Lucy and Co. used to be a professional brewer. In addition to homebrewing for more than a decade and taking a beer making course at the Siebel Institute in Chicago, Jeff learned on the job at this Louisville, KY Brewery:
If West Sixth, then A = 0
If Against the Grain, then A = 1
If Sun King, then A = 2
If Jackalope, then A = 3
B. Jeff ran this brewery in Southern Indiana for a few years:
If Bearded Iris, then B = 0
If Goodwood, then B = 1
If Floyd County, then B = 2
If Bluegrass, then B = 3
C. A favorite vacation took us to this historic Belgian brewery in Brussels, where beer is made twice a year using spontaneous fermentation:
If New Belgium, then C = 5
If Chimay, then C = 6
If De Halve Maan, then C = 7
If Cantillon, then C = 8
D. This Trappist Abbey in the Flanders region of Belgium has been making beer since the 1830s that is rarely exported to the United States:
If Chimay, then D = 0
If Saint-Sixtus, then D = 1
If Tre Fontane, then D = 2
If Orval, then D = 3
E. We were introduced to locally made craft beers at this Munster, IN brewery:
If Floyd County, then E = 4
If 18th Street, then E = 5
If Three Floyds, then E = 6
If Sun King, then E = 7
F. The first brewery to open in Lake County, IL in 1994:
If Lake Bluff, then F = 2
If The Onion, then F = 3
If ZumBier, then F = 4
If Mickey Finn's, then F = 5
G. The legalization of homebrewing in the United States (for the first time after Prohibition) in the year ______ led to the rapid expansion of craft breweries, as more homebrewers turned professional.
If 1976, then G = 4
If 1978, then G = 5
If 1980, then G = 6
If 1982, then G = 7
H. This Chicago craft beer company, touted as "Chicago's Beer," was purchased by Anheuser InBev in 2011:
If Goose Island, then H = 3
If Revolution, then H = 4
If Lagunitas, then H = 5
If Chicago Brewing, then H = 6
I. This Wisconsin craft brewery (Wisconsin's first) became more well known for their sodas than for their beer:
If Sprecher, then I = 1
If Jones Soda, then I = 2
If Stevens Point, then I = 3
If Stewart's, then I = 4
J. This Wisconsin craft brewery was the first American craft brewery to win an international award, and it was founded by a woman named Deb (but not Deb of Lucy and Co.).
If New Glarus, then J = 0
If Ale Asylum, then J = 1
If Minhas, then J = 2
If Leinenkugel, then J = 3
Cheers!
Congrats to toolrep1 on the FTF!