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Zero Gravity Brewing Company: Bobolink Saison

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Belgium is – quite justifiably – the most famous bastion of such relict preindustrial beers, home to some beers with truly ancient lineages, as well as more modern formulations that proudly incorporate old techniques and ingredients that would seem hopelessly obsolete anywhere else.

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Brewery Ommegang: Short Sleeve Saison

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Better yet, Ommegang’s domestic production allowed drinkers a taste of Belgium at a lower cost than the imports – and without the risk of stale, corked, or skunked beer posed by dusty old bottles after their rough transatlantic passage. All this has helped Ommegang become a tourist attraction in its own right.

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“A Flanders Brown Thanksgiving” – Casa Agria Specialty Ales: Zarza Marrón

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In Belgium, sour ales in both the brown style of East Flanders and the red style from West Flanders are often blended with fruit during their long aging period, traditionally using cherries or raspberries. Luckily, Casa Agria was able to save enough of this fruit from the ravenous waxwing hordes to add to Zarza Marrón.

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Europeans Continue to Search for Alternatives to Animal Research.Why Not Americans?

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Are animal rights organizations more effective? At a conference in Brussels, Belgium on 6 November, European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, and Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik restated the EU's commitment to the reduction of animal testing. Is there a different culture regarding animals in Europe?

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Brewery Ommegang: Idyll Days Pilsner

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A few of my own observations of birds perching on Albany, New York’s weathervanes (clockwise from the upper right): A pair of Fish Crows ( Corvus ossifragus ) perched on a “fish”vane (what else?) And living birds still seem to appreciate weathervanes as perches! on The Albany Academy by architect Marcus T.

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

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He sat…his crown giving searing shafts of violet as the light caught the feathers at just the right angle. Beneath him hung two midnight-purple discs, seemingly unattached from the bird itself, so thin were the filaments of feather spine that supported them.

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Belgian City of Ghent Goes Vegetarian!

Animal Ethics

According to this BBC story, city officials in Ghent, Belgium, are encouraging all residents to go vegetarian one day a week. A Kantian (though not Kant himself) would say that while the act is right, in the sense of being in accordance with duty, it has no moral worth, since it is not done from duty.