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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • IPAs are an acquired taste, but the longer you drink craft beers the more likely you are to acquire it. As your palate becomes more refined, you start to appreciate different hop characteristics. Hop varieties have a wide range of flavors: floral, grassy, piney, citrusy, tropical, skunky, etc. If you’re making a “proper” beer, a nuanced hop schedule is the easiest way to create a complex flavor. IPAs have probably the highest flavor variety of any style, and most of them are pretty good once you can appreciate hops.

    Except anything with Simcoe, that stuff tastes like cat piss.









  • Percentage is a good rule of thumb for most things, since generally menu prices are within a sigma or two of the average. This implies that a higher total is due to more items and more work. This decays at the high and low extremes, although a case could be made that if you’re at an establishment with exceptionally high prices, you’re generally getting exceptionally fine service.

    For a cup of coffee though, 15-20% is a joke. Either they just did their job, which justifies 0%, or they earned a tip, which justifies at least $1. For low menu-price items, 0%, 25%, 50%, 100% is a reasonable spread; you yourself tipped what I assume was about 100% on a $5 coffee. I think all four options are valid.


  • You can tell the difference between “Just doing your job” and “Going above and beyond”. If I know what I want and they just pour coffee in a cup, I’m probably not tipping, or maybe I’ll round up. If I have a ton of questions and need help deciding, I’ll probably throw them a dollar or two, depending on how complicated I make things.

    My whole point is if the coffee is like $3, 25-50% is 75¢-$1.50, which is perfectly reasonable for someone who did go above and beyond. I can even see 100% if they were exceptionally fantastic, like that one you had a year or so back. If the coffee is $8, gtfo out of here with those percentages.