June 2016 Puzzled Pint: Pintopia Brewery Tours

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Location: Favorite Breweries

  1. You'll likely need to use the internet for this.
  2. This month's theme is breweries.
  3. Look up the brewery that makes each of these beers.
  4. Here are the breweries, in order:
    2 Brothers
    3 Floyds
    4 Hands
    5 Rabbit
    6 Point
    10 Barrel
    11 Below
    21 st Amendment
  5. Each brewery has a number in it.
  6. Use the number in each brewery as an index into…
  7. …the quote for each bear.
  8. PINTOPIA

Shifty Saul’s Taxy Tour

  1. You're looking to match one brewery to each beer.
  2. The brewery names all have something in common with each other — and with the name of the tour.
  3. In order, the clues match up to these breweries:
    Sexy
    Galaxy
    Epoxy
    Proxy
    Foxy
    Apoplexy
    Orthodoxy
  4. Each brewery name ends in XY. The X & Y, along with the + or -, is a clue about what to do next.
  5. XY is a clue about using the X and Y axes along the edges of the map.
  6. Use the letter and number of each brewery's coordinate, along with the +/-, to perform a letter shift.
  7. SNIP OUT
    G + 12 = S
    J + 4 = N
    S - 10 = I
    T - 4 = P
    Q - 2 = O
    L + 9 = U
    F + 14 = T

Clonnie & Byde's Getaway Car Tour

  1. You're looking to make pairs of streets.
  2. The name of this tour is a spoonerism for Bonnie and Clyde.
  3. The first pair is Dick St. and Qwerty St.
  4. … which spoonerizes to the common phrase "quick and dirty".
  5. You want to pairs all 22 streets to get 11 common X AND Y phrase.
  6. Street pairs:
    Dick/Qwerty = Quick and Dirty
    Tow/Shell = Show and Tell
    Cloud/Leer = Loud and Clear
    Putt/Cased = Cut and Paste
    Maze/Weans = Ways and Means
    Gene/Clerk = Clean and Jerk
    Whack/Blight = Black and White
    Dead/Sun = Said and Done
    Lie/Barge = By and Large
    Far/Tether = Tar and Feather
    Sarte/Hole = Heart and Soul
  7. Each pair of streets is a clue for a brewery whose name is related to the spoonerized phrase.
  8. Write the street names in the blanks and notice which letters are shaded.
  9. Quick and Dirty = Makeshift
    Show and Tell = Kindergarten
    Loud and Clear = Audibly
    Cut and Paste = Editor
    Ways and Means = Methods
    Clean and Jerk = Weightlifting
    Black and White = Desaturate
    Said and Done = Settled
    By and Large = On The Whole
    Tar and Feather = Angry Mob
    Heart and Soul = True Love
  10. Taken in the order of the first column of clues, the shaded letters spell the solution.
  11. COLUMN HALFS

Crow’s Flying Tour

  1. The clues here are “end to end”, “a different kind of beer while in each flight” and "path.”
  2. There are eight breweries on the tour, but the answer will only be seven letters.
  3. You're looking to pair up breweries that are on either end of a tour leg.
  4. The first leg goes from APT PUPILS to NERDGLAM.
  5. For the two breweries on either end of a leg, take the last part of one and the first part of another to get a type of beer. For example, on leg one, you can find PILSNER inside APTPUPILSNERDGLAM.
  6. Apt Pupils → Nerdglam = PILSNER
    Nerdglam → Bermuda Gambit = AMBER
    Bermuda Gambit → Terrible Ghost = BITTER
    Terrible Ghost→ Outlandport = STOUT
    Outlandport → Errata = PORTER
    Errata → Leila = ALE
    Leila → Germaniacs = LAGER
  7. Now draw lines on the map to indicate the helicopter paths.
  8. The lines will intersect with the neighborhood names at 7 different letters.
  9. WITHOUT

Freya's First-rate Bike Tour

  1. We're dealing with different levels, numbered 1-4. Look for breweries that might take advantage of that.
  2. The breweries are nine squares apart (that is, there are eight squares of biking between them).
  3. Moonwalker
    Star Wars Episode
    Major Arcanum
    Weekday
    Book of Torah
    Rainbow Color
    Son of Abraham
    Planet
    Prime
  4. Each brewery is a reference to an ordinal list.
  5. Use the level of the brewery to determine the item of the list.
  6. Men who walked on the moon → 2 → Buzz Aldrin
    Star Wars Episodes → 3 → Revenge of the Sith
    Tarot Major Arcana → 4 → Emperor
    Weekdays (starting with Monday) → 3 → Wednesday
    Books of the Torah → 2 → Exodus
    Colors of the rainbow → 1 → Red
    Sons of Abraham → 2 → Isaac
    Planets in the Milky Way → 3 → Earth
    Prime numbers → 4 → Seven
  7. Look at the first letters of each answer
  8. Buzz Aldrin
    Return of the Jedi
    Emperor
    Wednesday
    Exodus
    Red
    Isaac
    Earth
    Seven
  9. BREWERIES

Meta: Advice

  1. The four answers spell SNIP OUT COLUMN HALFS WITHOUT BREWERIES.
  2. There are nine such column-halfs (each is a 1x8 strip).
  3. If you cut them out from the map, you’ll notice they all have lakes and rivers.
  4. By arranging the nine halves so the water lines up, it spells …
  5. WALK.

Bonus: My Underground Brewery

  1. Each beer has five underlined phrases, and there are five parts to each beer.
  2. Each underlined phrase matches up with one of the ingredients.
  3. Each beer story includes … A word or phrase that includes the letters GRAIN
    A word or phrase that includes the letters HHO (i.e. H20, or water)
    A word or phrase that rhymes with “yeast”
    A creature or thing that hops
    An anagram of a name of a fruit
  4. For each beer, the five initial letters each ingredient form 5/6 of a six-letter word.
  5. The definition for each of those six-letter words is a beer’s name on the left side of the page.
  6. [W] / INGRAINED / CHEAP / KANGAROO / ELEVENTH HOUR / RELEASED
  7. WIKI / [I] / GRAINGER / GRASSHOPPER / LEASED / YOUTH HOSTEL
  8. FROG / INCREASED / [N] / GIF / EARLY MORNING RAIN / RUSH HOUR
  9. HIP / AMONG / NINTH HOLE / GREASED / [E] / READING RAINBOW
  10. H.H. HOLMES / AT LEAST / MIGRAINE / POGO / EARP / [R]
  11. BEAST / AGRA, INDIA / RABBIT / FRENCH HORN / LUMP / [Y]
  12. Combine the missing sixth letters (the “secret ingredients”) of each beer to form the final six-letter answer.
  13. WINERY