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...beer. Samuel Adams' $120 Utopias, in a ridiculous copper-covered 24-oz. (710 mL) bottle meant to resemble an old-fashioned brew kettle, looked like the perfect candidate for a smackdown. First off, it's barely a beer. It's not carbonated like a Bud but aged in oak barrels like scotch, and it has a vintage year, like a Bordeaux. It is also unbelievably delicious--like a port flavored with malt and a touch of bite from the hops, and somehow light, complex and free of any alcohol sting, despite having six times as much alcohol content...
...exclusively by candlelight, the tapestry-draped main dining room is an ode to opulence: the seats are a rich red leather, the ceiling is gilded, and the walls are covered with oak panels salvaged from an old cathedral. The Secret Garden annex, meanwhile, is full of brass candlesticks and stone statues, and displays a series of painted doors that tell the story of Edinburgh's wine trade with France...
...fish when you’re a gorilla, you know.”But the other House mascots would not let the Gorilla have the last word.The Currier Tree responded by saying, “there’s nothing you can be better than a tall oak tree. Mather’s mascot doesn’t even match their shield. They’re the, what are they, the tigers? And there’s a gorilla. It doesn’t make any sense.”The outdoor raucousness only continued what began several hours earlier...
...Master of Hounds at Oak Ridge Fox Hunt Club. And I also hunt them, so I'm the Master and the Huntsman. And it is just the grand passion of my life...
...could be much worse. That's one of the implications of a new study published Wednesday in Nature that tracks the ability of streams and rivers to absorb nitrogen runoff before it pollutes the seas. A team of 31 scientists led by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee studied 72 streams in eight regions across the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and found that only about a quarter of the nitrogen that spills into rivers makes it to open water, with most of the rest managed by bacteria that live in the waterways. In a process called denitrification, the microbes...