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Those nice people at Waitrose are importing two of the Pietra beers from Corsica.

Pietra is a dark long-fermentation beer made with chestnut flour alongside the normal malt and hop mix, while Columba is a white wheat beer with herbal aromas based on the scent of the maquis.

Excellent stuff, and thank goodness for a supermarket that's willing to experiment.

However, I'm still looking forward to Whole Foods Market opening in London next year. The beer selection in the US stores is superb, and mainly micro-brewed stuff at very good prices. Here's hoping that they do the same over here.

...comes a damn fine Japanese beer. We shared a bottle on a recent trip to Las Vegas...

HITACHINO NEST BEER is a brand of our quality top-fermented ales. We started brewing HITACHINO NEST BEER in 1996 with a hint of our traditional sake brewing method. Since then, we've made a name and won numerous awards worldwide. HITACHINO has established the market in the U.S.A. since 2000, is now well known not only as a of unique "Owl" character, but also its innovative brews.

It also has the cutest little owl logo...



One for feorag, methinks...

...a scrolling message mug.



I'm just not sure about it saying "World's Greatest Dad". Why not the M25 version with "Variable Speed Limits In Operation", or the "LA Story" version with "There are more things in heaven and earth, Harry, than are dreamt of N your philosophy. "

[via Red Ferret]