NBS BIF #17 Hints and Hauls: Subaru Drivers Won't Keep Us From Our Magic Water Breakfast

Hint #1: my target has rated/reviewed fewer beers than I have on BA.

Probably.

 

On balance, I'd say you do.

Which is another hint.

 

Hint: A box will head east!

 

Hint #4: Target, I've visited your state previously. Which Isn't much help because I've visited 47 (+ DC and PR), except these:

 

Those are some sneaky images!

 

Here's another hint if you go far enough west you'd end up in the same place if you went east...

 

HINT #1 - at least one of my hints is a LIE!!!! It is up to you to decide If this hint is the truth or an actual lie itself

 

First image is probably the beehive state, second image is North Dakota, third image is probably Massachusetts, swampscott to be precise

 

Hint: My targets state flag has the color blue in it...

 

ARR, ARR HUMOR!

 

Now that we've actually started BIF 17, how about an official list of participants so I can build my spreadsheets?

 

Oooh the damn cushion!

 

Intriguing. I know the first photo well!!

 

Fearless BIFfoons...initial data mining has revealed that one of our fellows is not duly recognized.

@NorsemanOne is the only non-Poo-bah. This is travesty. Based on my calculations, I *think* he needs 443 points to get that beautiful red banner under his name.

We can fix this. He has 97 reviews (plus 3 ratings). Ignoring all other sources of beer karma, if he can get up to 1000 reviews, that will give him an additional 450 points.

That's less than 67 beers per BIFfoon. To do it by the share date, I think he needs to average approximately 33.5 reviews per day.

We can do this.

 

When have I not sent you boxes?

 

Useless observations of the day...
@FBarber and I are the only BIFfers who have reviewed Happoshu, one each.
2018-05-01: @FBarber reviewed Coedo Brewery (Kyodo Shoji Koedo Brewery) - Beniaka, from Japan, rating it 3.42 (rDev=-0.9%)
2020-09-05: @snaotheus reviewed Lowercase Brewing - Happoshu Style Lager, from USA: Washington, rating it 3.79 (rDev=0.0%)

@FBarber is the only one of us who has reviewed 120 styles on BA - is that all of the styles?
@russpowell, @Ozzylizard, and @ovaltine are tied for second place at 115.

Unsurprisingly, American IPA is our favorite style (by rating/review count). @ovaltine leads the way here, having hit 761 unique ones (also the largest number of beers of the same style for anyone in the BIF, although I noticed @russpowell is pretty close behind at 758).

The most single-style-focused member appears to be @WunderLlama -- 17.29% of his reviews are for NEIPA (320 out of 2256), the highest proportion of a single style for any member in the group (excluding @JayORear, technically -- he's reviewed 5 NEIPAs, which is 35% of his total reviews).

That is all for now.

 

Damn! I LOVE stats! Thanks Ryan!

 

Hint#1: My target resides in a state with more people than mine