Craft beer chain BrewDog has said it will move to open a “beer hotel & bar” in Edinburgh in the third quarter. The boutique hotel will be in a former schoolhouse near the city council headquarters on Market Street. BrewDog founder James Watt said: “Expect beer on tap in all the rooms, mini-bars filled with the best beers in the planet
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Looking to challenge convention, Phillippe Giraud set out to combine his family’s cognac expertise and passion for whisky. Merging techniques mastered by the Giraud family of cask makers and cognac cellar masters over the past 130 years, the family looks to establish a new tradition of French malt whisky, a refinement they call a balance of nature and creativity. Phillipe
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Our crops came out of the winter in relatively good shape. There were plenty of wet patches that looked bald, but the crops in general, did a lot better than last winter, when we had to replant half of them. We need the air temperature to get above 12C to get the crops to grow and we are not getting
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