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The Cattle Egret Expansion

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In the east, this species can be found along the east coast of Africa, the Nile Valley,and into parts of the middle east and India and southeast Asia. While equally at home among cattle and elephants in areas where neither are available it has adopted airports, where they feed on insects that get stirred up by passing planes.

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Trinity Brewing: Le Capitaine Golden Saison Regal

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The style has been adopted enthusiastically by contemporary craft brewers, so there are a lot of creative variations out there on the delicious but austere originals. Even the brewery’s spent grains, once shoveled out of the mash tun, are hauled off to a local farm as livestock feed. Could this be Le Capitaine?

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La Vieille Ferme: Rouge (2016)

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That’s “c**k-a-doodle-doo” en français: a Red Junglefowl ( Gallus gallus ) in its native habitat in southeast Asia. This week’s bottle is a blended red wine from La Vieille Ferm (“the old farm”). Introduced, exotic, possibly ship-assisted Red Junglefowl can be found all across France.

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