Sweet and Boggy: Myrica Ale

How could one pass up an opportunity to drink a beer with “bog myrtle” as a key ingredient? Images of humus-y stench and putrid strings of anaerobically semi-decomposed muck pair so well with a refreshing pint, right? Sort of like cigarettes?

Myrica gale’s other common name, “sweet gale” is a bit more immediately [...]

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What’s Better Than Roses on Your Piano?

truly traditional roses — the garden-variety, only five-petaled kind — are still pretty sexy

Answer? Tulips on your organ….!

Gotta love florist humor — that 3:00 a.m., two-inch stack of bouquet orders and standing in a pile of stems and leaves deliriousness. But truly, having devoted almost a dozen Valentine’s Days to cleaning [...]

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