Category: Gluttony

  • Club W: Oversimplified Recommendation Engines

    The secret to advertising a product is to make lives better or easier. Or do the same thing cheaper. So when it comes to selling wine, Club W takes the approach of making it easier to pick out a wine you like. Their concept is pretty simple. They ask you a handful of questions about…

  • Improving Restaurant Reviews with Basic Data Visualization

    Improving Restaurant Reviews with Basic Data Visualization

    Like many, I rely on various restaurant review sites before making a decision to try a new eatery.  However, every major site has a huge flaw.  They aggregate ratings throughout the history of the restaurant. This would be fine if restaurants were run by robots and immune to changes in staff and quality over time.…

  • Beer Quest

    I’m going for 200 different beers at my local Flying Saucer before moving away the end of March.  I started in December.  Here’s the progress: 512 Cascabel Cream Stout (CASK) (draught) 512 IPA (draught) 512 IPA (CASK) (draught) 512 Pale (draught) 512 Pecan Porter (draught) 512 Pecan Porter (CASK) (draught) Abbey de Leffe Blond (BTL)…

  • Bottoms up

    Too much caffeine today, need to counteract the madness.

  • My liquor store is large

    Texas sized.

  • Dogfish Head World Wide Stout

    Well worth $8 for a 12oz bottle. Dead serious. http://www.dogfish.com/brews-spirits/the-brews/occassional-rarities/world-wide-stout.htm

  • New favorite brewery

    I’m currently finishing off a 6 pack of the Octoberfest from Central Waters Brewery.  It’s not my favorite Octoberfest (it’s kind of a foggy orange color, very light/thin with a toasty/nutty flavor – quite tasty but a departure from a typical Octoberfest beer), but I still rather like it.  I’ve had as many beers as…