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One-plus-one evolutionary optimizer configuration object
A OnePlusOneEvolutionary object describes a one-plus-one evolutionary optimization configuration that you pass to the function imregister to solve image registration problems.
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Value. To learn how value classes affect copy operations, see Copying Objects in the MATLAB® documentation.
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We'll search a link between DA, DB and DC (considered as vectors). But ABCD is a parallelogram and vectors composition says, in this case,DA+DC=DB.
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After a week off, WVU played at Texas and Henderson had 10 points on 4-for-6 shooting in the first 15 minutes, but took one shot and didn't score the rest of the game. Meador said Henderson was kept out of practices and workouts not long after the loss to the Longhorns. With the illness and inactivity, Meador said Henderson has lost some weight, but wouldn't say how much.
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Gas dropped for the first time this week as WSI Corp. in Andover, Massachusetts, said temperatures may be average or higher than usual in the eastern and southern U.S. next week after below-normal readings through Dec. 17. Gas climbed to $4.409 per million British thermal units yesterday, the highest settlement since July 20, 2011.
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Mouse acceleration, yea or nah? (self.macgaming)
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I'm asking about whether people bother to disable mouse acceleration and if you did, did it have a dramatic effect on your play? I guess this only matters for fast paced games, first person shooters or Starcraft and stuff like that. I always hear bad things about the mouse acceleration in gaming conversation and wanted the opinion of people who have used both.
[–]thebailern1 6 points7 points8 points 1 year ago
Mouse acceleration is the worst if you are using a USB mouse and are playing FPS games. It's kind of a problem in mac for me, that I can't get the same "precision" in FPS games as in windows but there is a software that turns off mouse acceleration for USB mice called USB overdrive. Check it out =)
[–][deleted] 1 point2 points3 points 1 year ago
Thanks I'll check this out, if I have something that can turn it off and on easily I can test for myself.
[–]JustS5 1 point2 points3 points 1 year ago
Hey. Question, I recently had to wipe one of my MacBooks and ended up installing the latest version of USB overdrive and noticed it has changed abit from the last version I used. I can't seem to totally eliminate acceleration as I once was able to by turning down the speed/accel sliders. Any ideas?
I've switched back to SteerMouse for now, which works fine.
[–]HorseFD 1 point2 points3 points 1 year ago
USB Overdrive doesn't disable mouse acceleration, it just tries to compensate for it. It's not currently possibly to disable mouse acceleration in OS X.
[–]pedrogpimenta 1 point2 points3 points 1 year ago
It is, with Razer's software, right?
Not as far as I'm aware. Do you have a link that says this?
[–]DanaKaZ 0 points1 point2 points 1 year ago
I'm not sure if it actually disables acceleration or if Razer just fine tuned the settings so it would seem that way. But it does seem to work. I don't feel much difference between OS X and windows right now.
[–]pedrogpimenta 0 points1 point2 points 1 year ago
No, but there's an option for "Mouse Acceleration" on the Razer Mamba's Mac software. I'm no pro but I noticed a big difference with Counter Strike. I don't know if it's just because of the mouse, if it really disables acceleration or if it compensates, but it surely does something :)
[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 1 year ago
Tried it but doesn't effect the mouse that comes with it, that I really like, would hate to have to have a separate mouse just for gaming.
[–]skyhawk2891 2 points3 points4 points 1 year ago
I'm personally a fan of it. Just feels natural after a lot of years of having it on.
[–]Bobbio101 0 points1 point2 points 1 year ago
same. just a matter of personal preference honestly
[–]TAOTheCrab 2 points3 points4 points 1 year ago*
The only nice thing about disabling mouse acceleration is that you won't go spinning when you freak out in an FPS. Hasn't improved my game much though.
On Lion and above, you can use the following terminal command to disable mouse acceleration (I think it's only for mice, not trackpad):
defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.scaling -1
Then log out and log back in for it to take effect. Just make sure you have your mouse speed settings in order, because changing the tracking speed resets the mouse acceleration (kinda ironically, the lack of acceleration makes the mouse seem slower).
I can post the shell script I use to do that if desired, which reminds you to log out and to not adjust the tracking speed.
Thanks, I can use that command to check what it's like for myself and resetting when you change the mouse speed is just an easy way for me to reset it if I want to. :)
[–]chiefbos 1 point2 points3 points 1 year ago
I have a logitech mouse, so I was able to use the logitech driver to turn the acceleration down. Feels a lot more precise to me, even when using the Finder or anything non gaming related. I feel like I'm able to hit buttons a lot quicker.
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Regulation of morally responsible agents with motivation crowding
We study the regulation of a morally responsible agent in the context of a negative consumption externality and motivation crowding. In particular, we analyze how various governmental interventions affect the agent's motivation to assume moral responsibility. Employing a motivation-crowding model, we find that morally motivated behavior will, in general, not ensure Pareto efficiency without intervention. A Pigouvian tax may be efficient under motivation crowding. But the efficient taxe rate needs to be higher, which may lead to a full crowding-out of moral motivation. By contrast, an inefficiently low taxe rate may increase the market failure due to motivation crowding. Provision of information is efficient only in very specific cases but may be effective in reducing the extent of market failure. A complementary tax-and-information policy approach is superior to a tax as single instrument if its aim is to reduce consumption and if provision of information raises moral motivation.Download Info
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Okay, so I've been lurking for a while; gathering info and reading up a storm.
I'm was getting ready to talk to my OB about my desire for natural childbirth and the lowest amount of intervention. Then this weekend, I went to my appt.
He rushed me through then told me the baby was in a breech position during my 18 week ultrasound and if she doesn't move I'll have to have a c-section. I asked if there were any other options or if the c-section was automatic and he said no options.
Ugh! I was so disgusted I didn't even talk to him about my desire for a natural birth. I mean come on, it was an 18 week ultrasound. Like she's not going to move her position a million times between then and when the time for her birth comes. I'm disgusted!
If anyone is from the Pittsburgh area and has had any experience with The Midwife Center would you please share?
Oh my goodness. Wow, calling a baby breech at 18 weeks sounds about ridiculous!
Good on your for shopping for other options! It's never too late to switch providers if you are committed to a certain space for your birth. If you want to go for a natural birth and your provider is talking c-section at 20 weeks, it might indeed be time to switch!
Hopefully someone from Pittsburgh will be able to help you out!
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Ugh, doesn't sound like the type of doc. you'll be staying with. That is silly to call a baby breech at 18 weeks and stick with that. Good thing you found out now and have time to look around. Hope someone has some good info for you.
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If I were you I would totally switch providers! That's is ridiculous! Either go with a midwife or find another OB. There are great OB's out there that wont do stupid things like that to you. I had a great OB and natural birth with my second. They do exist. lol. That really is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. I'm so sorry you are dealing with this. Seriously find another provider though.
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I would definitely run far away after that!! I have had a LOT of success in getting information in particular areas on Mothering.com. The boards are more devided by location, and I've had great success with questions just like yours!!
Please KUP with what you decide to do!
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Also just wanted to say that at my 33 week appointment (I believe) my MW suspected baby was breech. But he turned by my next appointment
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Both of my babies were "breech" at the u/s around 17-20 weeks and were both head down with no problems by the end of my pregnancies. Being feet down at 18 weeks is totally normal, and to even bring up his practices for birth of breeches at that point is totally inappropriate.
I'm on the other side of the country, so I don't know anything about your area. The website for The Midwife Center looks nice, though, and they have both a birth center option and a hospital option. Is there a natural childbirth educator in your area who could give you a recomendation? Or maybe a doula? The care providers I have used for both of my births have been recommended to me by a childbirth educator and a doula, respectively, in the communities I lived in for each.
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Could your family doctor give you a referal? (If that's what you need)?
Why don't you call them up and tell them what your problem is and ask them for the best place to get in with them? Ask them for a list of people that could give you some stories of their experiences with them. Someone there could probably give you someone who will give you a referal as well.
Best of luck (and RUN from your current OB - after dropping off the latest guidlines for breech births).
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[\QUOTE]Best of luck (and RUN from your current OB - after dropping off the latest guidlines for breech births).[/QUOTE]
Love this quote!
I don't need a referral for insurance or anything like that. I just wanted some first hand knowledge from some other ladies.
Their website is great and they have birth stories posted as well. I think DH and I are going to go for a tour and speak with the midwives on staff. Even if it is at a hospital that is fine. I'm just not too thrilled with my OB being so ready to bring up C-section when I'm barely 22 weeks pregnant!
Thank you all for your encouraging words!!
18 weeks?!? Ridiculous!!! Odds are the baby was breech for five minutes before pinballing into another position (sorry for the analogy, babers is currently treating my insides like an arcade game)
Wish I had some info on someone else for you, but yes- I'd say run from that OB as fast as you can!


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HIV: Thirty years after the first diagnosis, Britain heads for 100,000 cases
While Aids experts say prevention campaigns are not altering sexual behaviour, medical progress means the disease need not be fatal
The number of people living with HIV in Britain will top 100,000 for the first time next year,
The Independent on Sunday has learnt. The toll of those infected, to be announced this week by the Health Protection Agency (HPA), is revealed as the world marks 30 years since the first cases of the disease were diagnosed.
The growing number of British HIV patients is due to the spread of the disease within the UK, as opposed to infections acquired abroad. The amount of people contracting the disease in Britain each year has doubled in the past decade, with some 3,800 diagnosed last year.
Epidemiologists at the HPA now predict that there will be more than 100,000 HIV-positive people – diagnosed and undiagnosed – in Britain by the end of 2012.
Health professionals said yesterday that Britain's progress towards this figure is more of a cause for optimism than it might first appear. They argued that the high numbers illustrate that in three decades, HIV has moved from something akin to a death sentence to a condition that – if managed – can allow sufferers a normal life expectancy.
Dr Valerie Delpech, the HPA's head of national HIV surveillance, said: "It's remarkable to be heading towards 100,000 people alive with HIV. In the early days, when we were diagnosing we were also counting as many deaths. That's changed dramatically. It's an extraordinary leap in medicine, that means we've gone from a fatal disease to a manageable chronic disease with a normal life expectancy – if you catch it early."
Since the first cases were discovered in Los Angeles 30 years ago, 115,000 people have been diagnosed in the UK. Of these, 27,000 have developed full-blown Aids and 20,000 have died.
But prevention is still a cause for concern as the doubling of cases suggests that safe sex campaigns are not hitting home.
Despite the increase in the number of diagnoses, the budget for HIV services in London has been cut by 20 per cent: the chief executives of London primary care trusts slashed spending for 2011-12 by £516,000, prompting protests from public health experts.
Diane Abbott, Labour's spokeswoman on public health, said: "The situation is very worrying. We're cutting services and we could go backwards. We need more outreach and more services, and to work with community groups."
The majority of new infections are diagnosed in gay men or in people who contracted the disease while abroad, although the number of heterosexuals diagnosed is also increasing. If all the UK-acquired infections were prevented, some £1.2bn could be saved in lifetime treatment costs.
Sir Nick Partridge, chief executive of the Terrence Higgins Trust, said: "Clearly, we want to do better in HIV prevention in the UK, particularly among gay men. The numbers would be much higher if we hadn't had the prevention campaigns of the past 25 years, and nine out of 10 gay men now use condoms.
"But in the past 10 years there's been a year-on-year decrease in local funding of HIV prevention work. The national programme has been sustained, but cutting local services adds to the invisibility of HIV."
Although the condition is now manageable if retroviral drugs are available and there is an early diagnosis, a cure is still a long way off, and patients in many countries do not have access to any treatment.
On Wednesday, world leaders will gather in New York for the biggest global meeting to tackle the pandemic for a decade. The UN's High Level Meeting on Aids will chart progress since a world assembly on the issue 10 years ago and will lay out future plans for eliminating the disease. The global sum given to tackling the disease fell last year for the first time since it was founded.
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"I was sick before I met Terry. After Terry died I got worse; I was expected to die within the year. I was just 19 and I thought that was it. But I'm still here. There's a huge backlog of grief from so many deaths, but it's not something I live with every day.
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Now my health is stable; I run two or three times a week. It is quite possible to have long-term relationships when one person has HIV. I've had two relationships since Terry and both were with people who were negative. It was beyond my imagination 25 years ago that I could be like this now."
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"As a haemophiliac, I knew I was high risk. When I went for the test, the nurses and doctors seemed frightened; I think a lot of them felt they killed us. There was no counselling, they just said I had about three years to live. Being a straight man with what was being described as the 'gay plague' was difficult. I was just 16 and the nurses told me never to have sex. Of the 1,200 haemophiliacs diagnosed that year only about 340 of us are alive."
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"White people feel HIV is not their problem, but I caught it from a white guy. I've lived in Britain since 2006. It's harder here, people are much more judgemental. In Zambia, there was so much awareness, it was in your face. Here, people pretend it's not happening. I'm on antiretrovirals now and my 14-month-old son, Mikey, is HIV negative."
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Learned she was HIV positive last year
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"I went for a regular check-up and expected it to be negative. I can barely remember how the clinic told me, I just knew it meant death. I'd had protected sex the vast majority of the time but there was someone I was seeing who wanted not to use condoms. It turned out he was positive and he'd lied to me. He died in an Aids ward two years later, still denying he had HIV. The drugs breakthrough came just in time for me."
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2.8/5 rDev -21.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
poured a nice goldenish with slight hint of amber color with a nice pleasing aroma as you would expect from most english pale ales.
the taste was lacking complexity with only a bland flavor, that didnt stick around after taking a nice big swig. you could taste only hints of different malts, without any strong flavor.
on the other hand it had good mouthfeel and was very smooth and drinkable, but not exactly worth buying.
Serving type: bottle
02-25-2010 05:26:00 | More by mikegreen138
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South Carolina
3.08/5 rDev -13.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
A: Poured from a bottle to a pint glass. Had an orange color and a hazy consistency. There was a half inch of foamy, fairly long-lasting head. Average lacing.
S: A very malty smell, with traces of grain, but not much else.
T: Tasted of malt, a little hops, grain, and a slight bready quality. Not that this style exactly warrants complexity, but this beer had a thin, uninteresting flavor.
M: A fair amount of carbonation with a dry, clean finish. Light- to medium-bodied.
O: On the whole this is just an average beer that will neither delight or offend a drinker.
Serving type: bottle
01-10-2012 14:10:21 | More by avalon07
United Kingdom (England)
3.53/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
A 500ml bottle with a BB date of December 30, 2010 - so only just out of date! The label mentions that this is the world's first certified organic beer.
Poured into a Sam Smith's pint glass. A nice golden amber colour; quite hazy. The last few drops of the pour are a reddish-brown which suggests live yeast (although the bottle doesn't mention conditioning). A small off-white head that disappears quickly. Smells distinctly of grainy malt and yeast.
Taste is also grainy malt, slightly sweet with mild bitterness. Undertones of yeast. Mouthfeel is pleasingly smooth; the beer coats the mouth and leaves a cloying sensation. Aftertaste of grain.
Overall, a decent ale and very drinkable. Could have a few of these in one sitting.
Serving type: bottle
01-09-2011 23:18:33 | More by jazzyjeff13
2.88/5 rDev -19.3%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
I poured this beer into my tumbler at 45 degrees. The beer looked like pee with a bad kidney infection. Smelled like a foot and did not have any head at all. The taste was fruity like rotten fruit. These are my and others comments so it was not just me that thought the beer was bad. Not buying again.
Serving type: bottle
11-01-2010 18:36:10 | More by Minkybut
4.05/5 rDev +13.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Appearance - This is truly golden in color with a tinge of brown and a modest but light and fluffy head.
Smell - The rich English pale malts are easy on the nose and very inviting. It's a simple aroma but very pleasing.
Taste - The malt is a tad sharper at the taste. This one is very smooth but no wimp. The yeast is alive and kicking as well.
Mouthfeel - This is shy of medium-bodied but actually has a small bitter bite. The carbonation is just right, enough to tickle the tongue but not so much to interfere with the smoothness of the drink.
Drinkability - This is a classic session ale that I highly recommend.
Serving type: bottle
11-16-2009 02:08:13 | More by RoyalT
Rhode Island
3.08/5 rDev -13.7%
look: 2 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
From 500ml bottle. No idea what this beer holds in store for me. Totally blind.
A- Poured into standard pint glass. A bit darker than expected but decidedly golden. Head is strange... almost like the head on an aggressive pour of apple juice. One of the first non-attractive heads I've ever seen. Really not what I'd be looking for.
S- Kind of medicinal... like if you sniffed into a bottle of tylenol gel-caps. Not doing the beer any favors here.
T- Decent, if unoffensive. A nice EPA, but nothing stands out. Mild honeydew melon, perhaps a faint grassiness. As the pint goes, my impressions raise ever-so-slightly.
M- Crisp, if a bit thin. Decent carbonation.
D- Moderate. Wouldn't seek this out, but if it was on tap, I'd have one, and if this is all there was I could do a lot worse. Sessionable to the 10th power.
Serving type: bottle
10-12-2009 23:07:36 | More by ShogoKawada
2.23/5 rDev -37.5%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
I find this to be a rather bland, one-dimensional and unpleasantly sharp ale.
Hazy gold, it has a decent white head that dissipates fairly quickly to a thin ring.
The aroma is yeasty dough with hints of nuts. it's fairly simple but generally good.
The taste is at first a pleasant, but very mild, grain taste with little sweetness, but it becomes bitter and oddly, unpleasantly sharp. It has a sharp bitterness with vague hints of falvour as if one were shewing on bitter grass and really bitter lemon pulp without getting much flavour beyond bitterness. It also has a bland apple cider taste and feel. It's definitely better with food, which causes the bitterness and mute and blend with the flavours, but even then it's not very good.
Serving type: bottle
04-21-2009 18:35:31 | More by Offa
3.5/5 rDev -2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Slightly above average English Pale. Pours a bright orange, with a slight fog and upward bubble trails. Thin head that peters out too fast. A white ring and lace is all that's left.
Sweet malty aroma, traces of honey, musty well water. Later it seems to have more of a doughy smell. Buttery feel, sweet malt on the tongue, with hints at fruitiness and tea leaves. Reminiscent of a Czech Pils or similar Bohemian lager, without the crispness. Not very dry, but the bready aftertaste lingers. Fairly low carbonation, feels a little too slick, and could use a drier feel. Overall it's pretty good, nothing exciting, subtlety seems to be it's main theme.
Serving type: bottle
12-18-2008 00:31:11 | More by emerge077
United Kingdom (England)
3.33/5 rDev -6.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Claims to be the first ever organic beer brewed (back in the 1990's). Good for Spock and other Vegans I suppose. This 500ml brown bottle had a best before date of 26 Sep 2008, I drank it a month later.
Poured into a Batemans pint glass, it was a golden slightly hazey colour with a good sized white head which slowly faded to a collar and a wispy covering.
The aroma was of flowers and cut grass, very floral indeed.
The beer was spritzy more than fizzy, a twang of citrus fruits in the taste. Unlike most UK brewed beers I've had.
Sadly there was something missing, where was the 5% alcohol, where was the bitterness I was expecting and like?
Overall not too bad, it just lacked that bitterness I require in a UK pint.
Serving type: bottle
10-28-2008 20:15:03 | More by BlackHaddock
3.4/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Ordered at MacNivens in Indy.
This beer poured a nice golden amber color with a tight frothy head on it with an abundance of carbonation bubbles. I am getting ripe fruit in the nose like apricots and peaches as well as some fingernail polish. The main flavors are of toasted grain with just a slight hop addition to the flavor. The mouthfeel is good, but leaves quite the dry finish. This was a fairly decent beer, and I would come back to it again.
Serving type: bottle
09-08-2008 00:59:22 | More by TheodorHerzl
4.2/5 rDev +17.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Pours a deep hazy golden color with a big white head. Head falls to just about nothing with no lace.
Clean aroma. Sweet, floral and a bit grainy. Nice maltiness coming through.
Nice sweet taste and hops are present.
Smooth and medium bodied with the right amount of carbonation.
Really enjoyed this beer. Easy drinking, can't wait to drink again.
Serving type: bottle
08-19-2008 14:09:11 | More by dstc
4.58/5 rDev +28.3%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5
Pours a great golden color, sunlike, with a really great head and fantastic lacing. It has a great scent, too, a great crisp and clean malty scent with a wonderful butterscotch and banana aroma. Great taste, an extremely well balanced ale between malts and hops, it starts with a great malty/sweet flavor and goes into a great hoppy/bitter finish, with a little tiny hint of spice at the very end. One of the smoothest beers I've ever had, as well. It is outstanding.
Serving type: bottle
07-22-2008 22:28:18 | More by JamesS
North Carolina
3.6/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.5
The second Caledonian brew I have had the chance to try I had the 80/- up in Niagra on the Lake in Canada on nitro tap and enjoyed it.Enough of that,this organic brew poured into a 22oz nonic a dull light golden with a bit of orange tinge to it a thinner white head dissapated quickly,muted aromas mainly of some butter and caramel malt with a hint of toasted grain.The flavors grew on me after awhile,at first it was pretty dull to be honest but then some biscuit malt and toasty flavor shown thru,a faint leafy presence was felt after awhile along with a decent toasted note.A beer that could be drunk in large quanities,it wont knock your palate for a loop but its decent.
Serving type: bottle
07-09-2008 21:15:57 | More by oberon
3.65/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
As indicated, golden in color, with orangish highlighting. Head is soapy and white. It doesn't stay tall very long, but the cap never officially receded for me. Not much in the lacing.
Sweet, candy-like aroma of butterscotch and other malt-driven notes. Hint towards some floral, but still nectar-sweet, hops.
More sweet malt on the palate, butter-creamy and a litle bit too sugary, but pleasant. Hops bring a little sour apple with the carbonation, and the whole thing seems very earthy or herbal.
Not a huge body, medium leaning towards thin, although the style is very lenient here. Easy to drink but not much keeping me back for more. For 3.50, I can find better 550mLs, but I'm glad I tried this one.
Serving type: bottle
07-09-2008 04:27:29 | More by BretSikkink
3.5/5 rDev -2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
Pours out a cloudy amber color with one finger of white suds which leave some lacing around the glass.
Smell is like a smokey Clove candy. Very malty and some hops but mostly sugars and caramel. The clove is the strongest aroma though.
Taste is a little watery but very strong toffee and caramel with a clovey aftertaste.
Mouthfeel is ok at best. It needs more bite and fizz.
Drinkability is OK here but since English Pale Ales are not my thing I could find something a little better for sessioning.
Serving type: bottle
01-20-2008 22:42:14 | More by peabody
3.63/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Okay then. We've got ourselves a vegan friendly beer here. Organic, of course. I love the cap too. Definitely a keeper.
Pours a foggy gold. No lasting head after a quick hit of some, but nice lacing on the top before I have taken a sip. Nose is odd. Woody and oddly antiseptic. Kind of the character I have pulled off some lambics, but never an EPA. Weird. Flavor is okay. Kind of tastes like wet wood, but not in a good way. Seems almost cask-ish, but no real level of maturity that a cask could deliver. Hmmm. I get a touch of vanilla all of the sudden. Feel has a decent but fairly low carbonation to it. The liquid feel is not very good. Overall this is just an okay ale. Sure it might go over well with the less informed vegans, but for real ale lovers, I doubt this is going to make an impact. If you pass on this one, don't feel bad.
Serving type: bottle
01-01-2008 04:45:30 | More by RblWthACoz
4/5 rDev +12%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Purchased this at Well's Wines in Baltimore, Poured cool into a tulip pint from a 16.9oz brown bottle.
A - A gently hazed pale amber w/ a frothy full white head as a result of a vigorous pour. The full inch of head clings to the glass very well and a pleasant looking lace patter appears.
S - A very fruity, pear and apple ester w/ floral notes and gently malty side notes are present in the aroma.
M - Crisp w/ low to medium carbonation and a yeasty creaminess w/ woody dry hop notes and a semi-dry finish.
T - Rich w/ malt, fruity and layered w/ both herbal qualities of hops and complex layers of dry spicy UK malt notes that also have a gentle caramel sweetness. A faint pine note holds into the finish and adds to the woody aspect. Very nuanced a well blended flavors w/ malt as the dominant taste.
D - A nice golden ale w/ sublte malt and nice yeasty bready qualities. One of the best Organic brews I have tasted.
Serving type: bottle
12-11-2007 16:27:57 | More by Slatetank
New Jersey
3.93/5 rDev +10.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
500ml bottle imbibed at Stoney's Pub
Hazy golden color, almost amber
Smell, very grainy, doughy even. Faint hops yet quite a full nose.
Taste, Earthy hop tastes come across first, but this one is really malty in its body. Finishes with a biscuit aftertaste with a mild hop flavor on top.
Overall a very easy drinking beer, and I'm glad I ordered it as I had never even heard of it before. I think this beer is better than its score dictates, as this is a solid English Pale Ale. My only gripe was when we got the bill. The bottle cost me $10, and that really surprised and somewhat annoyed me. Its good, but not $10 a bottle good.
Serving type: bottle
10-31-2007 14:13:44 | More by leftmindedrighty
3.08/5 rDev -13.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
Poured a slightly hazy medium gold with a small head which stayed for a few minutes. Medium amount of lacing remained in my glass.
Sweet smell with mostly a malty aroma.
Very hoppy flavor and to my taste buds also a fair amount of alcohol is present. Somewhat bitter aftertaste remains.
Quite lively, maybe even too much so with abundant carbonation. Light body.
All in all it was a decent beer which is worth trying at least once. It's not the first beer of it's type I'd go back to, but wouldn't refuse one if offered.
Serving type: bottle
10-24-2007 23:29:37 | More by JBogan
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