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Jeff and Gabe dig into a Fiddlehead Mastermind (sent from an awesome listener and TapCellar power user) while they kick around the idea of how they process reviews and recommendations.  

How do we trust a recommendation? Does it depend on where they come from or who they come from?  Is there really a reason to read comment sections after all?* 

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Beer Geek Nation

Real Ale Craft Beer Review

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Gabe and Jeff drink an unbelievably good beer — Brasserie DuPont's Avec Les Bons Voeux — and talk about managing the data in your digital life.

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Gabe and Jeff discuss how we manage (and mismanage) our side projects while drinking Evil Twin Brewing's Yang double IPA.  How do we deal with energy levels, tracking projects, and stay motivated to get things done?  Also, ant farms.

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Glassware anyone? Gabe and Jeff discuss a glasses for beer drinking with a focus on the Speigelau IPA beer glass and the Belgian-stype tulip glass. We compared and contrasted the taste of a Piraat in both glasses and then talked about our experiences with different ways of drinking beer.

Gabe and Jeff discuss collecting, hoarding and making choices about our things as we drink a Brouwerij Lindemans Framboise out of a fancy glass.

Do our objects define us? How long is it OK to keep unopened boxes in your attic after your last move?

Books, vinyl records, beer, board games, digital files — all of these collections serve as reminders of the kind of person we imagine ourselves to be but also serve to tie us to the past, boxing us into our image of a person we have moved on from.

Heady stuff. We probably needed a drink that has more than 2.5% ABV to see us through it but we did our best.

Gabe and Jeff drink a Stone Lcuky Basartd and discuss EDC, the fetishization of objects and buying things good enough to hang on to.

The Stone double IPA punishes their tastebuds almost as much as buying "the good stuff" has bludgeoned their wallets, but they persevere. Click the links below at your own peril. You'll want to buy all of the things after doing so.

This week Jeff and Gabe talk about Bourbon County Stout and negotiating moral dilemmas. Spurred on over the discord around In Bev owning Goose Island, they cover Google, Apple, Amazon, Blockbuster and GoDaddy. Lots of awkward conversations paired with a delicious and unique beer.

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Goose Island History

Chicagoist on BCS

InBev buys 10 Barrel

Gabe and Jeff dive into a very bitter, hoppy and palate-destroyingly delicious India Pale Ale from Uinta called Detour.  While they take swigs, they talk about their choice of multimedia solution, Plex, and how it changed the way they watch television and movies as well as how they listen to music.

Plex

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Uinta Brewing

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Gabe and Jeff do a taste comparison between Founder's Breakfast stout and New Holland's Dragon's Milk while discussing how they have their offices set up.  The conversation ranges from standing desks to big monitors to clacky keyboards...  mice... trackpads — you name it.  

The most important features on their desk during the show are the beers and the new TapCellar coasters however.  Be on the look out for these things because they turned out really nicely.

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Founder's Brewing Company

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New Holland Brewing Company

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