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As soon as Daniel Ocean's younger sister Debbie is released from jail on parole, she contacts her former partner Lou for a new heist: to steal a diamond necklace that has not left Cartier's vault in fifty years. The plan is to manipulate actress Daphne, who is invited at the MET gala, to hire has-been fashion designer Rose. Rose then demands that she wears the necklace with the dress she designs, which Cartier agrees reluctantly. Debbie 3D-prints a duplicate necklace and introduces her team of eight in the organization of the gala by Vogue and at the MET. Debbie also manipulates Daphne into inviting Claude, the ex-boyfriend who got her arrested, to accompany he to the event. During the evening, Lou, posing as a nutritionist in the kitchens, poisons Daphne's soup, forcing her to rush to the toilet to vomit. Pickpocket Constance then takes the necklace and passes it to jeweler Amita who cuts it into smaller pieces of jewelry. Cartier's security then evacuates the premises to search for the necklace, but gives up as Debbie “finds” the copy. Constance then slips the pieces of jewelry to the team to smuggle out by wearing them, while Debbie plants a piece on Claude. When Cartier discovers the next day that the necklace is a fake, the insurance company sends John to investigate the claim. In the meanwhile, Daphne shows up in Daphne's lair and explain she suspected something was on; as she is bored and has no real female friends, she wants to join the gang. John suspects Debbie to be the thief, but as she had made sure to appear at all times on video-surveillance footage, she has a solid alibi. Debbie hires elderly actresses to sell some of the jewelry and deposit money on Claude's account. She then negotiate with John to give him Claude and part of the necklace; Daphne meets Claude at his place under romantic pretenses, finds the planted diamonds and takes a photo as proof. Claude is arrested the next morning. Debbie also explains that the theft of the necklace was only a distraction and that the evacuation of the museum premises allowed her team to steal the jewels from an exhibition, on loan from several European royal families and replace them with copies.

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Holly Martins, an American author of pulp novels arrives in Allied-occupied Vienna at the invitation of his acquaintance Harry Lime who promised him a job. Harry has however been recently killed in a road accident and Holly assists to the funerals where he meets British Military Police officers, Paine and Calloway. He later meets a friend of Harry's “Baron” Kurtz who described how Harry died in front of his home, was carried to the side of the street by two men and asked them to take care of Holly and of Harry's girlfriend Anna. Holly however also hears the story from the porter at Harry's home who tells him there were three men and Harry had died instantly. The porter is later murdered after having offered to give Holly more information, and Holly is accused of the murder. Holly confronts Calloway, demanding that Harry's death is investigated, the policeman reveals that Harry was stealing penicillin from military hospitals and diluting it before reselling it on the black market, killing or injuring countless people. Holly agrees to give up on his investigation. Drunk and in love with Anna, Harry later visits her and notices someone watching her flat from across the street; he recognizes Harry, who flees and vanishes. After telling Calloway, they realize he escaped through the sewers. They then exhume his coffin and identify the body as an orderly who had been involved in the penicillin theft. In the meanwhile, the British police had taken Anna's forged passport and the woman, being a Czech citizen, is going to be delivered to the Soviet authorities. Holly visits Kurtz again and asks to see Harry. The meet in the Wiener Riesenrad and Holly realizes that Harry is interested only in his personal gain and has no consideration for the victims for his illegal activities, suggesting he sold Anna to the Soviet authorities. Holly then agrees with Calloway to help him catch Harry in exchange for letting Anna leave Vienna. She boards a train to Paris, but gets off the train when she sees Holly and persuades him to reveal the plan to capture Harry before leaving to tell Harry. Exasperated, Holly decides to leave Vienna, but Calloway takes him to a hospital where children dying because of Harry's dealings are treated. Holly agrees to stay and help capture Harry. They are supposed to meet but Anna warns her lover who flees through the sewers. A chase ensues where Harry is eventually killed by Holly. Holly attends Harry's second funeral and hopes to talk to Anna, but she ignores him.

“tropical flavours”

Sweet, sligthly bitter, very fruity. Contains malted barley, wheat, oats.

Northern Monk Brew Co., Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. 7.2% alcohol.

“named after the local Dales term riggwelted, where a sheep has rolled onto its back and can't get back up”

Roasted, quite ok. Contains barley and wheat.

Black Sheep Brewery Company, Masham, North Yorkshire, England. 5.7% alcohol.

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Werel is a planet with an orbital period of sixty Earth years. Rolery is a young native woman of the Tevaran tribe who meets Jakob, a human descendent from the small group of explorers who were marooned on the planet several Earth centuries ago. As winter is coming, the Tevarans are preparing for fifteen years without food by building a fortified and partially underground city with food reserves that should also protect them from pillage by the nomadic tribes of Gaals migrating south for the cold season. This year however, human scouts warn them that the Gaals seem to have united and will be strong enough to invade the Tevaran's city. Despite Jakob's marriage with Rolery being seen as unacceptable by the Tevarans, the humans help them evacuate their city when it is attacked by the Gaals and give them shelter in their own fortified city. The Gaals then attack the human city and cause many deaths, but eventually give up due to the terrible weather and the need to move south in search for food.

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Daniel's friend Reuben gets swindled by his partner Willy Bank while building a new hotel-casino in Las Vegas and suffers a heart attack. Daniel decides to Willy's hotel on its opening night by preventing it from getting the Five Diamond award all Willy's other hotels have (by making the stay of the Five Diamonds' reviewer a nightmare) and rigging the casino games to pay out millions in winnings, preventing it from earning enough money in its first quarter to remain open. The casino's games are controlled by a totally secure AI system that they have to disable so that the payout would happen while it reboots. They achieve this by getting Willy a mobile phone containing a magnetron. They also use a tunnel drill on the hotel's foundation to simulate an earthquake and force the customers to evacuation with their winnings. They infiltrate the factory in Mexico that produces the casino's dice to make rigged ones. Unfortunately, the drill breaks down and, to replace it, they have to ask a loan from Terry Benedict, who demands in exchange the diamond necklaces that Willy has bought every time his hotel has won a Five Diamond award. On the day of the opening, Daniel get's a fake FBI agent arrest one of his accomplices for rigging the card shufflers, prompting the casino to replace all of them with actually rigged ones. While Linus is seducing Willy's head of security in order to access the top-floor vault where the diamonds are, the same FBI agent (in reality his father, a con artist) arrests him for having switched the diamonds with fakes and takes him to the roof. There Toulour (sent by Terry) is robbing at gunpoint Linus from the diamonds, not knowing they are fakes. The explosive charges set by Linus free the vault, which is then lifted by a helicopter. At the same time, the AI is rebooting and the customers win loads of money just before being evacuated due to the fake earthquake. With their own winnings, Daniel's crew buys land for Reuben to build his own hotel. Daniel also donates Terry's share to charity, making it impossible for him to get his money.

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Une pythie nosferati se présente au château du père d'Ulser et annonce qu'à cause du chamboulement que ce dernier cause dans la trame du destin, la famille régnante actuelle vient de disparaitre et l'ainé de la famille d'Ulser deviendra roi. Pour ce faire, la tradition impose impose aux prétendats de rapporter dans un temps limité les quatre matériaux permettant construire un nouveau trône : un énorme bloc de pierre de Comblemort, des peaux de salamandre géantes du volcan Llardinaflarge, des perles venant de coquillages, et des plumes de dahu, un oiseau disparu depuis des siècles. En allant s'enregistrer comme candidat auprès des druides, Ulser découvre qu'il est en compétition avec son voisin et ennemi juré Rohand, le magicien charmeur d'animaux Boggus et un mystérieux quatrième candidat (qui n'est autre que son compagnon Fimosis). Ils vont d'abord chercher les perles sur une île située au centre d'un lac maudit mais finalement inoffensif, où ils sont harcelés par Rohand. Ils se rendent ensuite sur le volcan où Boggus, allié de circonstance contre Rohand leur apprend qu'on peut éviter de tuer des salamandres en allant prendre leurs mues dans une caverne ; Rohand ne prend pas cette précaution et la colère des animaux provoque une éruption dont ils échappent de peu. Ils se rendent ensuite à Comblemort, pays de lutins qui s'est enfoncé dans un puits profond. Ulser et ses compagnons trouvent une galerie menant au fond et des champignons rares dont les spores réduisent la taille des choses qu'ils recouvrent, ce qui leur permet d'emporter un énorme rocher. Ils se rendent ensuite dans dans les collines où vivaient les dahus et sont faits prisonnier par Rohand qui utilise la nécromancie pour transformer temporairement sa complice en dahu afin de lui prendre ses plumes de queue. La magie a pour effet imprévu de faire réapparaitre de vrais dahus, permettant à Ulser et se amis de prendre des plumes. Les quatre candidats étant parvenus à rapporter des quatre éléments à temps, les druides décident de les départager par une course en sac (une tradition dans le royaume). Malgré les tricheries de Rohand, Ulser gagne la course et reçoit donc les attributs royaux. Le fantôme de son ancêtre qui hantait le château apparait alors et par une entourloupe légale devient le nouveau roi.

“Goldings, from England, has been used for subtle bitterness and American varieties Liberty and Cascade were used in dry hopping to give a zesty, grapefruit aroma.”

Quite sweet and strong, with dried fruit flavours. I didn't notice the grapefruit aroma. Contains malted barley.

Bottle N° 87767. Fuller, Smith & Turner, London, England. 8.5% alcohol.

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Le chevalier Ulser cherche à accomplir un quête pour impressionner Migrene et la demander en mariage. Il demande conseil à la sorcière Mercédes, qui lui explique que la prochaine quête ne peut être entreprise que dans treize ans. Ulser accepte cependant d'aller voler la clé de la ceinture de chasteté dont l'ex-mari de Mercédes, Roméo, refuse de la libérer. Par maladresse, Ulser laisse échapper le lutin qui donne l'essentiel de son pouvoir à Roméo. Ulser promet de capturer le lutin après avoir accompli sa quête, même si la faire en avance est très dangereux. Tous trois partent alors à la ville de Carnavalum afin de rassembler une équipe. Ils s'associent à Maline, guerrière amazone du Nord et à Escar, voleur très peu doué mais ayant passé le test d'entrée dans la guilde par chance et dont les dirigeants sont content de se débarrasser. Roméo les mène dans un endroit où un écho magique répond aux questions, et qui les enjoint à aller voir un devin au beau milieu du pays des trollaks. En chemin, ils sont attaqués plusieurs fois par des assassins portant avec eux des statuettes à leur effigie, mais réussissent à se faufiler parmi les trollaks et à parler au devin Mausaurus. Ce dernier leur révèle qu'Ulser est le Prophétionnel et qu'à partir de ce moment, plus aucune prophétie n'est fiable et que le futur du monde est bouleversé. En ce qui concerne la Prophétie du Barde Nécromant qu'Ulser tente d'arrêter, Ulser doit trouver l'épée de Maroale et fabriquer un bouclier en écailles de la dépouille du dragon Na'faras et les donner à Darian, le garçon de ferme qui tuera le barde nécromant. L'endroit où se trouve l'épée est connu mais tous ceux qui ont tenté de la sortir du trou d'eau où elle se trouve ont été estropié. Ulser y parvient cependant, avec l'aide de Maline. Ils visitent ensuite l'antre du vieux Na'faras qui n'est pas encore mort, mais qui meurt de peur après avoir été réveille en sursaut par Ulser. Comme Darian n'est même pas encore né, Ulser décide de se confronter à Fimosis le barde qui deviendra plus tard un nécromant. Il parvient à convaincre ce dernier d'utiliser le joyau qui lui aurait donné des pouvoirs magiques pour plutôt libérer Mercédes de sa ceinture. Tous repartent alors accompagnés de Fimosis en direction du château de Rohand, seigneur voisin d'Ulser qui a enlevé Migrene (et leur a aussi envoyé les assassins). Après un duel avec Rohand se terminant sur un ex æquo, Ulser se rend compte que sa fiancée aime en réalité Rohand et se résigne à rentrer dans son propre château en compagnie de ses amis.

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Terry Benedict threatens individually each member of Daniel Ocean's crew, giving them 2 weeks to return his money, with interests. Wondering who leaked their names to Terry but in need to raise cash quickly, they travel to Amsterdam where a local crook tasks them, as a test, with stealing a precious antique from a collector' very secure home. They succeed to open the safe, only to find a note from the Night Fox, a famous thief who had stolen the artifact before them. Europol detective Isabel Lahiri, former lover of Daniel friend's Rusty, investigates the theft and surprises the team at their hotel. Daniel discovers that the Fox is François Tourlour, a gentleman thief who studied under famous thief LeMarc. François reveals he's the one who exposed the identity of Daniel's team to Terry. As François was outraged at LeMarc's suggestion that Danny is a better thief than he is, he decided to force Danny into a competition to steal a Fabergé egg; he will pay off Terry if Danny manages to steal the egg. The crew elaborates a plan to replace the egg with a hologram at the museum in Rome where it is going to be exhibited, but François leaks the identities of Daniel's crew to Isabel, who arrests them little by little. In the end only three of them remain and Linus decides to ask Daniel's wife Tess to pose as a pregnant Julia Roberts causing a disturbance at the museum, allowing to steal the egg. But the unexpected appearance of Bruce Willis blows her cover, and the remaining members of the crew end up in a Roman prison. They are extradited to the USA thanks to the political influence of Linus parents. As Isabel has forged a signature on a document to get a crew and arrest Daniel's team, she does not dare making an official complaint. Daniel and Tess visit François some time later, and the French thief gloats about having won. Daniel reveals that he had actually stolen a fake and that thanks to LeMarc's information they had replaced the real one with the fake when it was inconspicuously in transit to the museum by train from Paris. Danny delivered the real egg to LeMarc, who had stolen the egg years ago but had returned it on his wife's request. François pays the crew who pays back Terry, and Rusty takes Isabel to visit LeMarc, who she recognizes as being her father whom she believed was dead.