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IMF is tracking The Syndicate, a consortium of rogue agents from various countries. At the London IMF station, Ethan receives a taunting message from The Syndicate and witnesses a man (later identified as Solomon Lane) kill the station operative before being rendered unconscious. He wakes up about to be tortured, but one of his interrogators (a woman later identified as Ilsa Faust) helps him escape. Back in the USA, the director of the CIA Alan Hunley, who does not believe in the existence of The Syndicate, asks for IMF to be shutdown and integrated into the CIA due to the near-catastrophes caused by its action. Six months later, Benji is secretly contacted by Ethan and goes to meet him in Vienna. Together they try to find Solomon during a representation at the opera house, but end up preventing the Austrian Chancellor from being shot by three different killers (but he still dies in the explosion of his car while being evacuated). Ilsa is one of the shooters; she explains that she works undercover for MI6 and her loyalty to The Syndicate is being tested. Ethan helps her escape the opera house; being chased by goons of The Syndicate, she asks him to let her be caught by them after having given him a hint that she can be found later in Morocco. Ethan and Benji find her in Casablanca where she explains that Solomon, a rogue MI6 agent and leader of the Syndicate is again testing her loyalty by asking her to recover a digital file hidden in a digital vault located under a power plant. Ethan has to dive into a water conduit to access a configuration panel and replace an identification profile that allows Benji to enter the vault and get the file. Ethan almost drowns, is saved by Ilsa who then steals the file and escapes with men of The Syndicate. Ethan and Benji chase them, but she eventually escapes and meets Atlee, the chief of MI6 who discreetly deletes the file and forces her to continue her undercover assignment. As Benji had made a copy of the file, they study it and conclude that it is a digital red box that can only be opened by the British Prime Minister. They travel to London but Solomon kidnaps Benji and use him to blackmail Ethan into delivering him the content of the file. With Ethan disguised as Atlee, he and Alan (who had been warned by William Brandt, torn between working for the CIA or the ex-IMF) meet the PM who recognizes The Syndicate as a supposedly never-implemented organization proposed by Atlee. He is then being tranquilized by the fake Atlee who uses his biometric data to unlock the file; the real Atlee arrives, giving Alan the role of having saved the PM from Atlee. The file contains access to 2.4 billion GBP on numerous accounts that would allow The Syndicate to operate for years. Ethan negotiates the release of Benji in exchange for himself, having destroyed the file and memorized its content. Solomon ends up chasing Ethan and being trapped into bulletproof glass cell and gassed unconscious. Given the success of the IMF, Alan asks for the IMF to be recreated.

“chocolate malt, oats and creamy vanilla… brown sugar, coffee notes… cinammon and ginger”

Very sweet, very much vanilla, smells like soft caramel. There are maybe notes of cinammon.

Vault City Brewing, Edinburgh, Scotland. 11% alcohol.

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Eddie, a master burglar, is released from prison on parole, but is soon blackmailed into stealing three art pieces by his parole officer, a minor mafia gang and the CIA. Those pieces contain parts of a crystal at the heart of a gold-making machine made by Leonardo da Vinci. When delivering the first piece (a statue of a horse), Eddie learns that his blackmailers are manipulated by Mayflower Industries whose leaders, lunatic brother and sister Mayflower want to take over the world by rebuilding Leonardo's machine. Eddie later attends the auction at which an obviously fake statue is sold, before an explosion destroys it to cover up the theft. He is then kidnapped by the mafia gang, manages to escape only to be captured by the CIA and sent to Rome. There he is is forced to steal Leonardo's Codex from the Vatican and meets Anna, who works for the Vatican's counter-espionage. Eddie then refuses to steal a model of Leonardo's helicopter and thanks to his friend Tommy who fakes their deaths, manages to escape. They are found by the CIA who had themselves stolen the model. Anna is kidnapped and taken to the castle where the machine is being built; Eddie and Tommy penetrate it by night to rescue her, but are caught. Eddie is forced to assemble the pieces of the crystal but intentionally leaves a small piece out, causing the machine to fail and explode. A long fight ensues where the machine is destroyed and all the baddies are killed. Eddie and Anna escape the castle on Leonardo's flying machine and meet with Tommy who had miraculously escaped death.

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A woman is killed from a rooftop in San Francisco, and her killer, Scorpio, threatens to kill another random person unless the city pays him a ransom. Police inspector Harry Callahan investigates the killing along with his new partner Chico. Scorpio is spotted by a police helicopter but manages to escape and soon after kills a boy. Scorpio's letter to the Mayor indicates his next victim will be a catholic priest, allowing the police to restrict the killer's choices and set a trap, but he manages to escape. Scorpio then kidnaps a teenager and demands double the original ransom to let the police know where she is, with a limited supply of air. Harry is tasked with bringing the money to Scorpio who makes him run across the city from payphone to payphone with Chico following him by car at a distance. When Harry meets Scorpio, the killer announces he would let the teenager die; he and Harry fight, all are wounded, Chico severely. The police manages to find the doctor who treated Scorpio's wound and learns that the killer lives in a room in the nearby stadium. Harry tortures Scorpio to reveal where his victim is, but by doing so the district attorney must let Scorpio go free, because the evidence is not admissible in court. Later Scorpio pays a man to beat him up and blames Harry, who has been keeping him under surveillance, for it. Meanwhile, a recovering Chico announces he would leave the police. Scorpio then steals a weapon from a liquor shop, abducts a school bus and demands again a ransom and a flight out of the country. Harry waits for him and jumps on the roof of the bus from an overpass. Scorpio crashes the bus on a dirt mound in a quarry and Harry chases him through the installation's conveyor belts. Scorpio then takes hostage a boy fishing in a nearby pond but Harry shoots him as the killer reaches for his gun. Harry then throws his police badge into the water.

Yellow fruits, sweet and slighly bitter. Quite good. Contains malted barley, wheat and oats.

Northern Monk Brew Co., Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. 7.0% alcohol.

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An IMF agent is killed in Budapest and his killer, Sabine Moreau, steals the Russian nuclear launch codes to sell to “Cobalt”. Ethan Hunt is extracted from a Moscow prison by his colleagues Jane and Benji. The team is ordered to infiltrate the Kremlin for information on Cobalt, but the latter is already in there, causes multiple explosions and blows their cover before detonating a bomb. Ethan is arrested by an SVR agent and blamed for the bombing. He however escapes from the hospital where he has been brought and meets with the IMF Secretary and analyst William Brandt in Moscow, who identifies Cobalt as Kurt Hendricks, a strategist who wants to start a nuclear war; they determine that Kurt has stolen a Russian launch control device. The Secretary also explains that the President has initiated Ghost Protocol: there is no IMF anymore, Ethan's team will have no support to arrest Kurt. The Secretary is suddenly killed and Ethan escapes with William. They regroup with Jane and Benji and plant to infiltrate the meeting in Dubai between Sabine and Kurt's associate Wistrom: Sabine meets William posing as Wistrom while Jane poses as Sabine meeting Wistrom. The first team scans the documents and sends a modified version to a hidden printer in William's document case. But as Wistrom is accompanied by a cryptographic expert who can identify the fake documents, William has to send the real ones instead. Sabine is killed when she attempts to flee while Wistrom, who is Kurt in disguise, manages to escape during a sand storm. Ethan then meets an arms dealer who reveals that Kurt plans to launch the missiles using an old Soviet military satellite owned by Brij Nath, an Indian media tycoon in Mumbai. The team travels there and Jane first seduces Brij, then forces him to reveal the satellite's override code. The team then pursues Kurt to a broadcasting station, but the latter manages to get a missile launched to San Francisco. After a chase in an automated car parking building, Ethan recovers the launch control device and disable the missile just before detonation. The SVR agent, who got the same information as Ethan from the arms dealer arrives soon after and realises Ethan is innocent of the bombing.

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In the past, before Shrek had saved Fiona, her parents hoped to lift her curse by making a contract with Rumpelstiltskin, in exchange for their kingdom. But news, in the nick of time, of her being freed prevented the contract from being signed. In the present, Shrek is tired of being a family man and a celebrity who cannot go to the loo without being ogled by tourists. A series of mishaps during the birthday party of his children leads him to lose his temper and later meet Rumpelstiltskin; Shrek signs a contract allowing him to live one day as real, scary ogre, in exchange for one day of his past. Shrek wakes up in the countryside and has fun at first scaring people, but discovers that his swamp is deserted and that Fiona is not in her tower. Shrek is then captured by witches working for Rumpelstiltskin, now king of Far Far Away, and learns that the day he sold is the day of his birth: Shrek will cease to exist at sunrise. With Donkey, forced to work for the witches, Shrek escape from Rumpelstiltskin's castle. Shrek and Donkey make friend again, and the latter reveals the hidden clause in the contract telling it can be cancelled by his true love's first kiss. They also stumble upon the ogre resistance, lead by Fiona who is still under her curse. Shrek tries clumsily to woo her, but she is focused on preparing an ambush on Rumpelstiltskin. The ambush was however a trap and most ogres are captured by the Pied Piper, working for Rumpelstiltskin; Shrek, Fiona and Donkey escape. Shrek insists that kissing him will fix everything, but nothing happens. As Rumpelstiltskin offers a wish to whomever brings him Shrek; the latter then decides to turn himself in, and he uses the wish to free the other ogres. Rumpelstiltskin reveals that Fiona had been captured but being not fully ogre, she was not released. The freed ogres storm the castle, capture Rumpelstiltskin and defeat his army. As the sun rises Shrek begins to fade but Fiona, having fallen in love with him, kisses him before he disappears. The alternate reality disintegrates and Shrek finds himself at the birthday party once again before he lost his temper and instead embraces his family and friends.

“originates from Landlord Pale Ale but brewed with caramelised sugars… fruity, toasted aroma with hints of chocolate, citrus and roasted malts… Malt: Golden Promise, Hops: Fuggles, Styrian Goldings and Goldings.”

At first a bit roasted, later red fruits, maybe cherry and raspberry. Contains malted barley.

Timothy Taylor, Keighley, West Yorkshire, England. 4.1% alcohol.

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As a child, Zangemann dreamt of computers small enough that he could put them into any kind of toy or object. As an adult, he sells electric skateboards that make cool sounds, speakers that play music and ice-cream vending machines that make any kind of flavour. Ada lives with her mother near a junkyard, and since they don't have much money, Ada does not own any of Zangemann's cool toys. Instead she builds things with components found in the junkyard. One day, Zangemann is accidentally hit by a skateboarder and decides, since he controls all the devices he sold, to prevent the electric skateboards from working on the sidewalk. He also makes the speakers only play the music he likes when he is close to them, and decides what flavour will be served each day in his vending machines. In the meanwhile, Ada borrows from the library a book about software programming and learns to write software. She builds her own skateboard, that is not controlled by Zangemann, and shows her friends how to reprogram their skateboards and speakers to work wherever and whenever they decide. They also modify the ice-cream machines to produce any mix of any flavour and serve it in any shape people want. Angry, Zangemann then tells the president of the country to pass a law that forbids hacking his devices, and he is obeyed because all the government's computers use Zangemann's software. But the children start to protest the law in front of the Parliament, soon joined by the adults. They convince the president to repel the law and change it so that anyone is allowed to run any software, study it, modify it and share it. They also show the government how to write it's own software for its computers. Zangemann then isolates himself in his high castle while other people enjoy life.

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Entre 1954 et 1957, l'organisation international pour la sécurité du diamant, une sorte de service de renseignement et de police privé au service des entreprises de l'industrie du diamant (notamment la De Beers, dont le président a créé l'OISD), a eu pour but de décrire la contrebande de diamants entre les colonies britanniques où sont localisées les mines (notamment l'Union d'Afrique du Sud et la Sierra Leone), certains pays limitrophes et les pays comme le Royaume Uni où les diamants de contrebande sont achetés. Ian Fleming raconte les entretiens qu'il a eus à Tanger avec John Blaize (pseudonyme de John Collard), employé par l'OISD. Blaize lui raconte un certain nombre d'anecdotes, d'opérations de contrebande déjouées par l'OISD, mais aussi de d'enquêtes ratées dont on ne connait pas le dénoument.

“American hops… tropical fruit”

Just another ale, with, as advertised, tropical fruits. Contains barley, oats and wheat.

Deya Brewing Company, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. 5.2% alcohol.

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Ethan Hunt has retired from fieldwork to live with his fiancée Julia, but he cannot refuse a mission to help recover his protégée Lindsay, captured by arms dealer Owen Davian in Berlin. Lindsay is killed in the mission, but Ethan's team has found intel that Davian will be in Vatican City to sell a mysterious biological weapon called the Rabbit's Foot. Ethan also receives from Lindsay a postcard hiding a microdot. Ethan then plans and execute an unofficial mission to capture Davian in the Vatican (by replacing the real one with a disguised Ethan and then staging his death in a car explosion), but when interrogated the arms dealer only threaten to kill everybody for whom Ethan cares. After landing in the USA, Ethan learns from IMF technician Benji Dunn that the microdot contains a warning about his boss, Theodore Brassel just before the convoy taking Davian into custody is attacked and the prisoner escapes. Ethan rushes to the hospital where Julia works, but she has already been kidnapped by Davian's men who give him 48 hours to deliver the Rabbit's Foot ; Ethan is apprehended by the IMF but director of operations John Musgrave helps him escape, telling him that the weapon is in Shanghai. Ethan travels there and meets his team (sent by Musgrave); Ethan enters the building where the weapon is located by swinging on a rope from a nearby, taller building and then BASE jumps down. He then delivers the weapon but is captured but Davian; the latter threatens to kill Julia in front of him if he doesn't tell him where the real Rabbit's Foot is. As Ethan cannot answer (he is certain of having delivered the real thing), Davian kills her. Soon after Musgrave appears, reveals that the dead woman was Davian's chief of security in a mask, that he planted the misinformation about Brassel and that he works for Davian with the goal of obtaining an excuse to do a preemptive strike in the Middle East. Ethan escapes, knocks Musgrave out and locates Julia thanks to a tracker placed on the weapon, Musgrave's phone and Benji's help. Ethan then kills Davian before freeing Julia and telling her about his work at IMF.

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James Bond est chargé d'enquêter sur un trafic de diamants entre les mines du Sierra Leone et les États-Unis. Il infiltre le réseau en prenant la place d'un passeur et prend contact avec Tiffany Case qui lui transmet les ordres venant du mystérieux chef ABC. James suspecte le gang des frères Jack et Seraffimo Spang d'être à la tête du trafic. À New York, James livre les diamants (cachés dans ses balles de golf) au gangster Shady Tree, reçoit une partie de son payement et l'ordre d'aller gagner le restant dans une course de chevaux truquée à Saratoga. Il rencontre Felix Leiter, maintenant employé par Pinkerton pour démasquer une fraude hippique à Saratoga. Les deux hommes s'y rendent ensemble et Felix soudoie le jockey pour qu'il se disqualifie. Lorsque James se rend à un établissement de bains de boue pour payer le jockey, ce dernier est attaqué par deux tueurs, Wint et Kidd. James se plaint ensuite à Shady Tree de n'avoir pas gagné la somme qui lui avait été promise; ce dernier l'envoie alors au casino Tiara de Las Vegas pour gagner la somme à une table et une heure précise. James y retrouve Tiffany comme croupière, qui lui fait gagner son dû au vingt-et-un, mais contrairement à ses instructions, James continue de jouer (à la roulette) pour provoquer une réaction de Spang. Le lendemain, après une course poursuite il est capturé et emmené à Spectreville, une ville fantôme de l'ouest américain détenue par Seraffimo Spang où ce dernier gare son train privé. Il est torturé mais grâce à Tiffany, qui est la compagne de Spang, ils parviennent à s'échapper en draisine, poursuivis par le train. Bond parvient à faire dérailler le train, tuant Spang. Ils sont récupérés par Felix qui les ramène à Los Angeles d'où ils volent vers New York pour embarquer sur le Queen Elizabeth pour Southampton. À bord du navire, James finit par reconnaitre Wint et Kidd; ces derniers enlèvent Tiffany mais James la libère et tue les deux tueurs, maquillant leur mort en bagarre ayant dégénéré. Plus tard, James se rend en Afrique pour arrêter Jack Spang, alias ABC, qui efface les traces de sont trafic. Accompagné par la garnison de Freetown, James suit le dentiste qui fait sortir les diamants de la mine jusqu'à son rendez-vous à la frontière de la Guinée française et du Libéria; le dentiste est tué par Spang, arrivé en hélicoptère et Spang est tué à son tour lorsqu'il tente de s'enfuir.

The Sirian Empire is technically so advanced that its citizens are immortal and have machines catering to their every needs; the result is that many of them feel they have no reason to exist. To give these people something to do, the Empire colonizes many planets, leading to fighting and losing to the Canopus empire. As a gesture of reconciliation, Canopus invites Sirius to jointly colonize Rohanda, leaving them the southern hemisphere. Ambien II represents Sirius on Rohanda and sets in motion a series of experiments on populations transported various colonies of the empire. But Ambien fails to understand the mysterious Canopus and she mistrusts them as a partner in that vast enterprise. Canopus's attempt to lock the indigenous population in a harmonious state fails and the inhabitants fall under the corrupting influence of Shammat, of the Puttiora Empire; Canopus therefore renames the planet Shikasta. Klorathy, a Canopean colonial administrator invites Ambien to observe events in their territory. They meet multiple times as civilisations come and go (e.g. Attila-like barbarians invading other kingdoms and killing everybody, an Aztec-like society sacrificing humans; a society where “lesser” sentient beings are experimented on without remorse), and despite Canopus' attempt to help the local communities, little progress is made due to Shammat's negative influence. Ambien meets Nasar, another Canopean who got corrupted over the millennia spent on Shikasta by Shammat; she also meets Tafta, Shammat's commander on the planet, and nearly succumbs to his corruption. Ambien eventually abandons the experiments on Rohanda, but despite the wish of the four other member of Sirius' directing committee, she refuses to forget the planet, having grown attached to the planet and starting to understand Canopus' way and how the Sirian Empire went wrong. The Four then send Ambien on exile to Planet 13, where she writs her report of the Sirian Experiments; the Four deny its authenticity upon its release.

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In the American Old West, Bret Maverick needs to find $3,000 to participate in a poker tournament. He first goes to Crystal River to collect on debts. In a poker game, he encounters young con-artist Annabelle Bransford and ill-tempered gambler Angel. Bret is forced to flee without money from his debtor (lost in a bank robbery) and without the winnings he got from Angel. Bret then shares a stagecoach with Annabelle and Marshal Zane Cooper, narrowly escape a fatal plunge into a ravine. They then encounter a group of settlers who have been robbed by bandits disguised as Indians; Bret recovers their money in exchange for a $3,000 reward, but decides to give them back the reward. They are then cornered by a group of real Indians, whose chief Joseph is a friend of Bret's. The latter claims he has to accompany the Indians so that his two companions remain safe, but in reality he wants to collect the $1,000 Joseph owes him. Joseph and Bret swindle a Russian Archduke of the needed amount in a scheme that “allows” him to hunt and kill an Indian (Bret in a disguise). In the meanwhile, Angel receives an telegram instructing him to stop Bret. He and his men catch him and try to hang him, but he escapes and manages to reach the Lauren Bell steamer where the tournament will take place. There he recognizes the Archduke and, pretending to be from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, cons him out of $6,000 to cover his and Annabelle's entry fee. The tournament is organized by Commodore Duvall and Zane oversees the security of the game and of the $500,000 prize money. Bret, Annabelle, Angel and Duvall advance to the final game. During a break, Angel locks Bret in his room, but he manages to climb out of it and join the game just in time. Bret notices that the dealer is bottom-dealing and forces Angel to give him the top card, but refuses to look at it before betting. Bret gets the card he was missing to have a royal flush and wins the tournament. Angel and his men draw their weapons, but get killed by Zane and Bret. During the closing ceremony, Zane steals the prize money and escapes; he later meets Duvall, revealing they were working together and that Angel was working for Duvall. Bret appears and takes back the money. Later in a bath house, Zane is revealed to be Bret's father; they hade been planning together to con Duvall. In the end, Annabelle arrives and steals the satchel with the money, but Bret explains he had hidden half of it in his boots, so they still have $250,000 to enjoy.

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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.

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Julio Blanco, propriétaire d'une entreprise de balances industrielles, considère son personnel comme faisant partie de sa famille et est ravi de pouvoir les aider dans leurs problèmes. Alors qu'il apprend la visite imminente d'une commission devant décerner un prix local d'excellence en affaires, il congédie José, un comptable. Ce dernier, pour protester contre la perte de son emploi qui le conduira à perdre sa maison et sa famille, s'installe sur un terrain vague en face de l'usine avec des banderoles pour protester et insulte Julio avec un mégaphone à chaque fois qu'il entre et sort de l'usine. Julio utilise aussi de son influence pour faire libérer Salva, le fils de Fortuna, arrêté pour agression. Miralles, directeur de la production de l'usine, accumule les erreurs parce qu'il déprime depuis que sa femme parle de le quitter. Julio parle à cette dernière pour la convaincre de changer d'avis, mais elle lui apprend que son mari a eu une liaison avec Ines, la secrétaire de Julio, et l'envoie se faire voir. Il découvre alors que la femme de Mirallese entretient une relation avec Khaled, le subordonné de ce dernier. Julio a aussi une liaison avec Liliana, une jeune et jolie stagiaire en marketing et apprend juste après de sa femme qu'elle est la fille d'amis de la famille mais qu'il ne doit pas lui donner de traitement de faveur. Quand Liliana annonce à Julio qu'elle a rompu avec son petit ami pour poursuivre leur liaison, il décide d'ignorer la jeune femme et de ne pas l'embaucher après son stage. Pour se débarrasser de José qui nuit à ses chances de recevoir le prix d'excellence, il embauche la bande de Salva pour agresser son ex-employé ; José tue cependant Salva en se défendant pendant l'attaque. Liliana annonce alors à la femme de Julio que ce dernier l'a nommée cheffe du marketing et ce dernier ne peut pas nier la chose sans qu'elle ne révèle leur liaison à sa femme. Julio décide aussi de licencier Miralles et de le remplacer par Khaled. Le jour de la visite de la commission, l'entreprise donne la meilleure image d'elle-même et Julio est fier de recevoir le prix.

“suklainen ja pehmeän kahvipaahteinen… ruusuvettä, kaakaota ja vaniljaa.”

Ainka makea, tuoksuu ruusulle, suklaalle, vaniljalle ja vähän kahville. Sisältää ohramallasta.

Panimoyhtiö Hiisi, Jyväskylä, Suomi. 9.0% alkoholia.

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Morn has prevented her son Davies from being delivered to the Amnion by Nick, but Davies is now a prisoner of the Bill, the ruler of Billingate, a station in forbidden space that caters to the needs of illegals. Nick needs his ship repaired but has no money and resorts to selling Morn to the Amnion who have an outpost in Billingate. Morn has however stolen Nick's anti-mutagen drug, so she is not affected by the Amnion's experiments to transform her into a human-looking Amnion. Some of Nick's crew has been kicked out after opposing selling Davies to the Amnion and are now stranded on Billingate. Angus, now a cyborg forced to work for UMCP is sent to Billingate to rescue Morn. The Amnion still demand Davies from Nick as they want to study him, so he deals with Angus, promising him Morn (whom Angus does not know is already in the hands of the Amnion) in exchange for Davies. Angus manages to rescue Davies' from the Bill's prison, but Nick then admit now having Morn anymore. Angus then meets with with Nick's former crew members; together they enter the Amnion's outpost and rescue Morn. Angus, Nick and his former crew then escape in the nick of time, thanks to Nick's remaining crew sacrificing his ship. Billingate is destroyed by Angus having tampered with its fusion reactor. Meanwhile, Warden Dios, director of UMC Police, is scheming against his boss, Holt Fasner, CEO of the UMC, to make UMCP independent from UMC and put it at the service of all people in space and not only serving Fasner's greed. He publicly admits having used Nick's pirates for covert work in the past and having used Morn as a payment to Nick. UMCP sent Nick to Billingate to start a rumor about an anti-mutagen drug that would render the Amnion suspicious of the Bill and render Billingate less useful to them. The revelation is followed by an attack on the ruling council of Earth and a freeze of its communication with the UMC.

“Cloudwater x The Veil Brewing Co.”

Tropical fruits, with somethins else I cannot describe. Contains barley, oats and wheat.

Cloudwater Brew, Manchester, England. 8% alcohol.

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Barely out of jail, Danny Ocean already plans his next robbery: the common vault of three Las Vegas casinos. Incidentally, Ocean's ex-wife Tess had left him for the casino's owner, Terry Benedict, when he went to prison. With the help of his friend Rusty Ryan and the financial backing of Reuben Tishkoff whose casino was bankrupt by Benedict, Ocean assembles a team of ten criminals with various skills. They start by observing the casino, learning its routines, the behaviour of its staff and the building itself. They connect themselves to the casino's video surveillance system and also build a replica of the vault for rehearsing the theft. The destruction of Tishkoff's old casino causes a power loss in the district, causing the maintenance personnel to correct an issue that Ocean is planning to exploit. They solve that problem by stealing an EMP device from a university research center. Danny meets with Tess and Benedict has him barred from the casino. The heist starts with Ocean entering the casino and being detained in a surveillance-free room to be beaten up by a man who secretly works for Ocean. He reaches the elevator shaft through the ventilation system and meets Linus who entered the place pretending to be a gambling official. Meanwhile, Saul convinces Benedict to store a precious briefcase containing disguised explosives in the vault. Virgil an Turk smuggle acrobat Yen into the vault in a casino trolley and Basher uses the EMP device to cut the power, disabling the laser grid protecting the shaft. Yen then uses the explosives to open the door from the inside, letting Ocean and Linus in. Rusty calls Benedict, reveals the robbery and blackmails him into giving up half of the cash, to be put in a van waiting outside. Through the surveillance cameras, Benedict verifies the vault is compromised and surrenders to the blackmail. He calls a SWAT team while his men follow the van to the airport. The SWAT team assaults the vault but explosives are detonated, destroying the remaining money. Meanwhile, the van is found to be radio-controlled and to contain only worthless paper. Benedict dismisses the SWAT team before realizing the surveillance system has been compromised: he was watching a video filmed in the replica vault. The SWAT team was actually composed of Ocean's team who emptied it before leaving through the front door. Ocean returns to the secure room where Benedict arrives to confronts him; he is tricked into admitting that he would give up Tessa in exchange of recovering his money, but Tessa is shown the scene and decides to leave him. Ocean is sentenced to few months in prison, but Tessa and Rusty are waiting for him on his release.

“gluten-free… tropical… guava…”

Strong guava flavour (it contains guava flavouring) with a hint of that taste I don't like in some German beers. Contains malted barley and buckwheat.

Williams Bros Brewing Co., Alloa, Scotland. 3.5% alcohol.

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In Victorian London, Frederick Treves, a surgeon, discovers John Merrick in a freak show. He pays Bytes, Merrick's “owner” to have him at his hospital to study his deformities. On his return to Bytes, Merrick is badly beaten and asks for help from Treves who gives him shelter at the hospital. Nurses are frightened because of his appearance and Treves believes at first he is intellectually disabled, but soon discovers that he can speak and read. Merrick has tea with Treves and his wife and from then starts to get London's high society interested in him and visit him in his room where he builds a model of the cathedral he can see from his window. He even receives actress Madge Kendal who gives him a copy of Romeo and Juliet; the they play some lines from it and Kendal kisses Merrick. At the same time, a night porter named Jim starts selling tickets to locals who come at night to gawk at the Elephant Man. Some members of the hospital council consider that the hospital should not pay for Merrick's lodging, but he is guaranteed a permanent residence by Queen Victory, the hospital's royal patron. One night, during Jim's showing where they invade Merrick's room, Bytes kidnap him and forces him to play the Elephant Man in the circus, this time in Belgium. Merrick is ill and weak and unable to perform, so Bytes leaves him to die in a cage. He is however rescued by the other freaks who all flee in the night. Merrick travels back to London where he is first harassed at the train station before being returned to the hospital by policemen. Merrick recovers some of his health and even attends a performance of Kendal's at the theatre; Kendal addresses the audience who then applauds him. Back in his room at the hospital he finishes his cathedral models then lies down and dies (his was aware that, due to his deformities, lying down would cause asphyxiation).

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Chicago Surgeon Richard Kimble is sentenced to death for the murder of his wife. He claims to be innocent and that his wife was killed by a man with a prosthetic arm, but the police is not able to find that man. A year later Kimble manages to escape during transport when other prisoners cause an accident leading to the bus being destroyed by an oncoming train. Kimble sneaks into a hospital, tends to his wound, shaves his beard, steal clothes and escapes in an ambulance. US Marshall Samuel Gerard chases Kimble into a tunnel from which Kimble escapes through the storm drain and despite being followed by Gerard, manages to disappear by jumping from a high spillway into the river. Kimble then returns to Chicago to find the one-armed man himself, getting money from his friend and colleague Charles Nichols. Posing as a janitor at the prosthetics' department of Cook County Hospital, he manages to make a short list of patients who could be his wife's killer. He however blows his cover when he is asked during a rush in E.R. to take a boy on a gurney to another floor but instead modifies the doctor's orders so that the boy would be operated on, saving his life. Gerard deduces what Kimble is doing and produces his own list of suspects. He spots his fugitive when interviewing a jailed suspect in Chicago City Hall, but loses him during the St. Patrick's Day parade. Later Kimble breaks into the home of his last suspect, Fredrick Sykes, a former cop, now chief of security for a pharmaceutical company. Kimble finds a link between this company and Lentz, the doctor who was in charge of testing a new drug, soon to get FDA agreement, that Kimble knew was causing liver damage. Kimble phones Gerard and leaves evidence in sight before leaving. He then visits a former colleague of his at the hospital. He learns that Lentz has died in a road accident six months earlier (presumably killed by Syskes because he too had found that the drug had side-effects). Kimble then gets proof that the liver samples used for the FDA agreement are fakes, and that Nichols, now a member of the board of the company, is the only person who could have replaced them. On his way to the cardiologists' conference where Nichols is going to announce the new drug, Kimble is attacked by Sykes on a train and a transit police officer is killed; Kimble is blamed and Chicago PD wants revenge. At the hotel, Kimble confronts Nichols, they fight and end up in the laundry, followed by Gerard and his men. Kimble saves the US Marshall's life when Nichols attempts to kill him. Gerard tells Kimble they have got Sykes and proof that Nichols helped the killer to stage the burglary of Kimble's home and to kill his wife.

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Dix ans après la seconde guerre mondiale, Sir Hugo Drax est un industriel britannique qui a fait fortune dans les minerais stratégiques et construit pour le royaume son premier missile balistique près de Douvres ; pour des raisons de limitations budgétaires, tous les techniciens travaillant sur la fusée ont été sont Allemands et ont été embauchés par Drax, et seuls deux policiers de Scotland Yard sont chargés de la sécurité, dont une, Gala Brand, sous la couverture de secrétaire de l'industriel. Drax fréquente le même club que M, et ce dernier le soupçonne de tricher au bridge. Il demande de l'aide à Bond, qui se fait un plaisir de faire perdre une fortune à Drax. Peu de temps après, le policier en charge de la sécurité est tué par un des techniciens pour une histoire de c½ur. Le Yard demande de l'aide à M et Bond devient le nouveau chef de la sécurité. Il découvre que son prédécesseur avait aperçu quelque chose de louche au large la nuit précédent sa mort, et Brand et lui manquent de se faire tuer par l'effondrement de la falaise alors qu'ils examinaient la plage. La veille du premier lancement d'essai, Drax part à Londres avec son homme de main, Krebs, et sa secrétaire. Brand parvient à voler le carnet dans lequel Drax note chaque jour les réglages des gyroscopes du missile que sa secrétaire calcule en fonction de données météo. Elle découvre que ces réglages emmèneraient le missile de test droit sur Londres et non pas vers la mer du Nord, mais Drax s'en aperçoit et la fait prisonnière. Ayant planifié un rendez-vous à Londres avec Brand et ne la voyant pas venir, Bond part à sa recherche et finit par poursuivre la voiture de Drax. Ce dernier provoque un accident, et Bond se réveille prisonnier dans la base aux cotés de Brand. Drax révèle être un ancien officier Nazi qui, déguisé en soldat anglais, avait posé à la fin de la guerre une bombe dans un QG britannique ; il avait été blessé dans l'explosion, a feint l'amnésie et pris une fausse identité en sortant de l'hôpital. Drax compte se venger du Royaume Uni en plaçant une ogive nucléaire fournie par les Soviétiques dans son missile et en le lançait sur Buckingham Palace. Drax ayant laissé Bond et Brand se faire incinérer par le décollage du missile, ces derniers parviennent à s'échapper et à re-régler les gyroscopes de sorte à le faire retomber dans la mer. Drax et ses hommes, qui s'étaient échappé à bord d'un sous-marin soviétique, sont tués dans l'explosion. Bond part alors à l'étranger, se faire oublier quelques temps.

Hapan ja hedelmäinen, muistuttaa vähän Madeirasta. Sisältää ohramallasta, kauraa ja vehnämallasta.

Panimoyhtiö Hiisi, Jyväskylä, Suomi. 8.0% alkoholia.

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During the American Civil War, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March live with their mother in Concord, Massachusetts while their father is at the front. Meg wants to become an actress, Jo writes, Beth plays the piano and Amy draws and paints. They live near the Laurence's house where Laurie lives with his grandfather and his tutor John. The sisters live happily many years together even though Amy is jealous of Jo's relationship with Laurie. Mr. Laurence invites Beth to play his late daughter's piano in his house, eventually gifting her the piano. Mother and daughters also help a poor neighbouring family, the Hummels, from which Beth contracts scarlet fever, and Amy is sent to rich Aunt March to avoid catching the disease. Despite getting eventually better, she remains in weak health. Aunt March eventually takes Amy to Paris to take art courses, while Meg marries John and resents being poor compared to her richer friends. Laurie appears in Paris, revealing that Jo rejected his marriage proposal as she does not see herself married. Amy however refuses to be his second choice, despite having secretly been in love with him for many years, but also rejects the proposal from her wealthy acquaintance Fred. Jo has gone to New York to become a writer; she manages to publish dreadful stories that sell well, but her friend Friedrich criticises her work, angering her. She returns to Concord upon receiving a letter telling her that Beth's illness has worsened; she eventually dies. Amy returns from Paris with an ill Aunt March. Jo wonders if she should have accepted Laurie's proposal, but discovers he and Amy got married on their journey back. Jo then begins to write a novel based on her and her sisters' lives. In the meanwhile, Friedrich visits her and her family on his way to California. Jo's publisher is not impressed by the first chapters, but eventually agrees to publish the novel after her daughters demand to know how the story ends, but refuses to accept that the protagonist remains unmarried in the end; Jo then ends the book with the protagonist, herself, asking Friedrich to stay in the East. Jo successfully negotiates copyright and royalties. Following Aunt March's death, she inherits the house and opens it as a school where Meg, Amy, John and Friedrich all teach.

Al·Ith is the queen of Zone Three, where people live in harmony and have some kind of a shared consciousness. The god-like Providers order Al·Ith to go to Zone Four and marry its king, Ben Ata. Zone Four has lots of natural resources but its completely militarized civilisation makes no use of them and to Al·Ith its people look poor and unhappy. Both countries however see the natality rate of both humans and livestock decline very rapidly, and Al·Ith supposes that the marriage between the zone is going to solve it. The two rulers could not be different, Ben Ata being foremost a soldier, not used to the company of women he cannot control. After being forced to live together they however learn each other habits and end up falling in love. A son is born, Arusi, future ruler of both Zone Three and Four, and Al·Ith receives the help of some women, led by Dabeeb. The Providers then order Al·Ith to go back to Zone Three without her son and Ben Ata to marry Queen Vashi of Zone Five, ruler of many tribes of desert nomads who pillage the rest of the rich Zone. Both Al·Ith and Ben Ata are devastated by this news. Back in Zone Three, nobody recognizes Al·Ith whose sister Murti· has taken over as queen. Murti· is disturbed by how her sister has changed and exiles her at the frontier with Zone Two. She tries to enter the Zone but she finds it inhospitable and is told by invisible people it is not her time yet. In he meanwhile, Ben Ata disbands most of his army so that the men can rebuild the towns and villages; he also manages to gain Vashis's confidence and convince her to stop plundering Zone Five. With Arusi old enough to travel, Dabeeb and her band of women travel to Zone Three to visit Al·Ith and are shocked to see the former queen working in a stable. the inhabitants of Zone Three also have xenophobic attitudes towards the visitors. Five years later, the Providers tell Ben Ata to go and see Al·Ith. He is at first stopped at the border by a makeshift army but comes back with his own troops and despite not being well received, he finds his first wife surrounded by a small band of followers. Ben Ata tells her of the reforms he introduced in Zones Four and Five. One day, Al·Ith enters Zone Two and does not return but there are apparent changes in the three previously stagnant Zones where people and knowledge flow freely between them.

“tropical medley of American hops… Centennial, Citra, Ekuanot, Mosaic… pineapple and grapefruit… peach, lemon… orange, papaya”

Tropical fruits indeed. Very good. Contains malted barley and wheat.

Thornbridge brewery, Bakewell, Derbyshire, England. 6.2% alcohol.

“tropical with a citrus burst of bitterness”

Definitely tropical fruits. Quite good. Contains malted barley, wheat and oats.

Williams Bros Brewing Co., Alloa, Scotland. 5% alcohol.

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Isaïah et Agathe sont chasseurs de fantômes : elle est médium est peut les voir et les attirer dans un piège pour que lui, sorcier hoodoo, les force à partir vers l'au-delà. Ils sont appelés à Landrez en Bretagne pour chasser les fantômes du manoir de Ker ar Bran, situé à coté d'un phare que l'on dit maudit : celleux qui en ouvrent la porte sont condamnés à mourir sous peu. Agathe se rend compte que la maison est hantée par les fantômes de deux jeunes filles, et parvient à apprendre le nom de l'une d'entre elle, Solen (grâce à un enfant qui l'a vue et lui a parlé). Iels découvrent aussi les archives de Théophile, un érudit parisien, ésotériste spécialiste des anges, venu s'installer à Ker ar Bran en 1921 et mort tragiquement en 1922 après avoir tenté un rituel magique pour invoquer des anges. Les archives de la mairie, qui auraient pu les éclairer sur l'identité des fantômes ont été détruites dans un incendie quarante ans plus tôt. Toutes ces informations sont cependant insuffisant et Isaïah et Agathe repartent à Paris ; Agathe surtout a le sentiment d'avoir échoué alors qu'elle aurait dû réussir. Après avoir demandé de l'aide à un sorcier plus puissant qu'elleux, iels sont rappelés à Landrez et retrouvent des document ayant échappé à l'incendie des archives. Iels découvrent qu'en 1841, Tugdual de gardien du phare qui habitait Ker ar Bran a été reconnu coupable du meurtre d'une adolescente. La même année, Gwennyn, qui avait été accusée de sorcellerie a été bannie du village. Avec les prénoms des deux fantômes, Isaïah et Agathe tentent un nouvel exorcisme, sans plus de succès. Mais Agathe découvre une connexion avec Gwennyn (Agathe, Théophile et Gwennyn partageraient la même âme) et parvient à lui parler. Elle lui révèle que Solen, fille d'un marin mort dans un tempête, a été tuée par le fils du maire en essayant de la violer. Le maire a étouffé l'affaire en faisant accuser et condamner Tugdual. Gwennyn, qui pouvait entendre les fantômes, a appris de Solen qui l'avait tuée et l'a annoncé à sa mère. Cette dernière, horrifiée par le pouvoir de sa fille, l'a dénoncée au curé qui l'a fait bannir, la conduisant à se suicider. Théophile, quant à lui, a réveillé les nombreux esprits vivant sous Ker ar Bran et même s'il a été sauvé par Nenoga, une sorcière locale qui y a laissé ses pouvoirs, a fini par tomber en dépression et se suicider. Après ces révélations, les deux fantômes, apaisés, décident de leur plein gré de partir vers l'au-delà.