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Glue Pot back in beer lovers’ bible 

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The Glue Pot Pub
The Glue Pot Pub

A RAILWAY village pub that has attracted drinkers from across Europe is celebrating its tenth year in the pages of the beer lovers’ bible.Emlyn Square boozer the Glue Pot has again won a place in the Good Beer Guide.The guide – now in its 45th year – is published by the Campaign for Real Ale and lists 1,700 of the best pubs for beer aficionados.Ex-tank commander turned pub landlord Jonathan Crisp said he was “very pleased” to still make the cut [ . . . ]

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BBC – Travel – These Scottish islands may hold the secret to happiness

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Scotland’s Outer Hebrides can be rainy, remote and cold – yet their inhabitants rank as the happiest people in the UK. What is their secret?

It was nearing midnight and the sky still remained light. The only hint of sunset visible from the kitchen window was a pink smudge above the Minch, the stretch of water that separates the islands of the Outer Hebrides from the mountains of the Scottish coast.

Accessible by propeller plane or ferry from mainland Britain, the Outer Hebrides are home to 26,000 people. Until I moved to New York City three years ago, I was one of them. Now I was back home – for most islanders call it home, no matter how far they travel – for my first summer since leaving [ . . . ]

 

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Is This Man the Dr. Frankenstein of Beer?

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Trough the winding hallways of the centuries-old University of Leuven in Flanders, Belgium, past the sterile black counters in biological laboratories, buried in the depths of freezers, and suspended in cryogenic slumber, there sleeps a creature feared by the masses.


Through the winding hallways of the centuries-old University of Leuven in Flanders, Belgium, past the sterile black counters in biological laboratories, buried in the depths of freezers, and suspended in cryogenic slumber, there sleeps a creature feared by the masses.

It’s small — microscopic, in fact — but it packs a punch. The creature is barred from entering certain laboratories in the United States to safeguard against contamination. It’s feared by the general public as an abomination of nature, an organism whose critics say it was created by the hands of man playing god. The creature is the target of lobbyists and NGOs that would like nothing more than for it to be destroyed. But, is this creature — actually a manmade strain of yeast, a single-celled organism humans have been cultivating for at least 7,000 years — just misunderstood?

READ FULL STORY at the Surce: Is This Man the Dr. Frankenstein of Beer? – Eater