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Virtual (blinded) Tastings

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Remote tastings are one activity during the pandemic that has brought me a lot of joy. Love recreational PowerPoint presentations. I’ve created tastings for gin, fruit-forward IPAs, whiskey, sour beer, and session IPA, and attended ones for carrot cake, salt & vinegar chips, and canned rose. I have a format that works really well: the tastings move quickly and offer plenty of opportunity for social connection which can sometimes be difficult on virtual hangouts.

An attendee’s gin-tasting photo on social media. Participants were given soda and tonic mixers.

These events have worked out so well, I thought it would be a shame to not share my ‘template’, slides, and the things I’ve learned doing these.

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Timberkits Drummer- a Janet Weiss Automaton

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With this increased time-at-home, I have been itching to do a kit-something that is interesting to assemble, customizable, and makes a product that I would actually want in my home. I was thrilled, THRILLED when Michael got me the Timberkit Drummer for my birthday.

I knew I needed to paint a lot of the parts prior to assembly, so I had to decide who this drummer was going to be. Who would I want a representation of sitting on my shelf, who also has a distinctive enough “style” for me to approximate? Michael suggested Janet Weiss, and as a big Sleater-Kinney fan, I knew it was the right choice.

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