The Beer Duty

Beer Sheba

The name of this venerable town means literally “the well of seven.” The Semitic words for “oath” and “swear an oath” are derived from the consonantal root of the number seven, and this etymological relationship is stressed in the biblical explanations of the name Beer-sheba. The name was first given because there Abraham and Abimelech king of Gerar swore an oath of mutual allegiance (Gen. 21:3...

The Continuous Brewing of Beer

Brewing has been mentioned in history as early as Egyptian times and has continued on to the present day with relatively few changes to the basic recipe. Malted barley is the main ingredient, which, when milled and heated in water to extract its nutrients, provides a nourishing sugarand protein-rich solution named wort (pronounced wert), an ideal medium in which yeast may grow and ferment. In c...

Beer Hipsters: Exploring User Mindsets in Online Beer Reviews

Online product rating systems are frequently used to generate recommendation systems to boost sales. However, these systems do not take into account how user reviews are influenced by previous reviews of the same product. We wish to model how users interact with previously posted reviews. Namely, we want to see if there are distinct categories of users who tend to agree with previously posted r...

Beer - the ties that bind

" You're walkin' tough baby, but you're walkin' blind to the ties that bind " Bruce Springsteen

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