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Grand River Brewery: 313 Polish Lager

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But I did have what comes close to qualifying as a Proustian moment in finding this week’s featured beer: 313 Polish Lager from Grand River Brewery of Detroit, Michigan. And more importantly for us, unlike Zywiec, 313 Polish Lager features a bird: the orzel bialy , the white eagle that adorns the national coat of arms of Poland.

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The Birds at Itasca State Park Are All Wet

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But there is the Alexandria-Detroit Lakes axis, I suppose. We also did not see a drone get knocked out of the sky by an eagle. Farther West the routes go mainly to the west and stop turning up north, because if you go up North there you just run into Fargo and who would really want to do that. So we did what Efe Pygmies do. And Huxley.

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10 Questions for Birdchick on 1001 Secrets Every Birder Should Know

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They asked me to anthropomorphize and say things like, “eagles fall in love for life.” Can you come up with an outline and a sample chapter based on that title?”. My first outline and sample chapter was rejected for being “too technical.” It was really cute, they even spelled out the definition of anthropomorphism.

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