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“tropical fruit aroma, pineapple, tangerine, guava and passion fruit… honeyd malt”

Very flowery and fruity. Contains malted barley, wheat.

Thornbridge brewery, Bakewell, Derbyshire, England. 4.5% alcohol.

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Spirits from the Vasty Deep

Extra-terrestrials land near Kedrigern's house while he rests from a complex summoning spell. Convinced the E.T. are the spirits he's been trying to summon, he refuses to believe their story of planetary conquest. Kedrigern eventually just makes them and their space ship vanish.

Hey, Ho, the Wind and the Rain

Kedrigern is asked to help a king whose kingdom suffers from drought. Upon arrival, he understands that the king cares only for his gardens and fountains and not for the land, which suffers from the king hoarding all the water for his garden. He however demands that Kedrigern provides twice the standard amount of rain in order to fill his reservoir and cisterns. Kedrigern complies, but summons a heavy rain over the badly built reservoir and light rain over the fields; the dam is soon broken, and the land can be properly irrigated again. He then helps the crooked Chamberlain to escape in exchange for the money he had embezzled during the construction of the dam.

The Quality of Murphy

A king asks Conhoon to change his daughter back, who has been transformed into a giant rat by a djinnee. Conhoon asks a pooka named Murphy to find the djinnee; Murphy is eager since the local spirits don't like interference of foreign spirits in local affairs. The djinnee refuses to at first to cooperate since upon being freed from his bottle, his feet remained trapped in it. Conhoon and Murphy convince the king to re-open the bottle to let the feet out. In exchange the djinnee accepts to lift the curse and stores it in the bottle, that Conhoon takes with him for later use.

Après des années de pause, j'ai retenté de fabriquer ma propre pâte à tartiner chocolat et noisette, cette fois-ci à partir de pâte de noisette.

Ingrédients

• 60g sucre glace
• 30g huile neutre (navette)
• 30g cacao
• 80g pâte de noisette (100% noisettes, grillées puis broyées)

Préparation

Tamiser le sucre glace et le cacao, le mélanger puis délayer avec l'huile puis avec la pâte de noisette. Conserver au réfrigérateur.

Commentaires

• Liquide visqueux (comme du miel) à température ambiante, devient tartinable à température du réfrigérateur.
• Facile à préparer, contrairement aux expériences précédentes (ici, un bol et une cuillère suffisent).
• La texture granuleuse au début semble devenir moins granuleuse avec le temps.

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Kedrigern is a misanthropic wizard who specializes in counterspells. A widow troll mother gives him her newborn baby before dying near her husband, and Kedrigern trains him as a house servant. Some time later, on the way back from a house call, he meets a talking toad whom he transforms back into a beautiful young amnesic woman whom he names Princess. Alas, she cannot talk and croaks instead; this doesn't prevent them from getting married. Kedrigern tries multiple methods to give her back the ability to talk, with no success. One day he meets a minstrel who knows the spell to cure Princess. Princess starts studying magic, but also wants to have a social life. She convinces Kedrigern to visit the prince of Grodz who is asking for help because of a plage of magical rats. Although wary of the prince's reputation as a cruel man, they take the journey. Upon arrival Kedrigern is drugged and fed to the magic rats. The latter, human workers transformed by a sorcerer, however recognize him and spare him. Kedrigern returns them to their normal shape and runs to save Princess. She had however already succeeded in transforming the prince in a toad, freeing the country from the tyrant.

“Uuden maailman humalaa… pintahiivaolut”

Erittäin makea, tuoksuu voimakkaasti hedelmältä, mutta en tiedä miltä. Sisältää ohramallasta.

Panimoyhtiö Hiisi, Jyväskylä, Suomi. 9.0% alkoholia.

“Suklaisen paahtomaltainen, lakristijuurella ja laktoosilla liennytetty Milk Stout”

Aika makea, mutta en huomannut lakritsin makua. Sisältää ohraa.

Panimoyhtiö Hiisi, Jyväskylä, Suomi. 5.3% alkoholia.