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Guess I’m jumping on the bandwagon, too, but with a Gelatinous Mammoth Cube

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Landslide unearths pre-historic tusk in lignite plant in W. Macedonia

A landslide at the Amyntaio lignite coal mine unearthed a 2-meter-long tusk.

The pre-historic finding was discovered by workers of the Greek Public Power Company when they went to inspect the landslide area last week.

They immediately informed their director about the finding and on his part he informed the competent authorities as well as the Paleontology Museum of Prolemaida in West Macedonia.

According to local media kozan, experts form the Museum visited the site the following day and took all necessary measures to transfer the tusk to the Museum.

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The Museum of Natural History 7/8/15 ♦ Photo by Ellie Decker

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MARTELIVE: sezioni di arte visiva CURATELA e arti perfomative PERFORMATIVA

MARTELIVE: sezioni di arte visiva CURATELA e arti perfomative PERFORMATIVA

Tra gli eventi più interessanti in programma figura sicuramente TWINNING al Rialto Sant’Ambrogio il 26 settembre, un evento multidisciplinare ma anche un gemellaggio tra le sonorità dell’Italia e quelle dei “Paesi Nordici”, con i danesi Marstal: Lidell e Arvid, che affiancheranno il neo acquisto dell’etichetta MArteLabel, i Mammooth. (more…)

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Hecate Mammooth Imperial Stout (9% ABV)

This beer represented the wild card selection from my most recent trip to the local purveyor of beers. I say this because I had never actually tried an imperial stout before popping this one open. I find stout to be somewhat hit and miss. In casual drinking situations I do enjoy them but when I go out with friends I sometimes find them a bit heavy for regular consumption. That being said, at times there really is nothing like a fresh pint of Beamish in a bar in Dublin.

This example is a new release for 2012 by the Hecate brewery in sunny Granada. Their range includes a pale ale and a Weissbier, neither of which I've tried, so here I took a leap of faith. In general one should not expect too much from stout in Spain. Guinness is definitely the staple stout but much of the flavour seems to be lost over here, perhaps through transport or the poor pouring technique of Spanish bartenders. Some supermarkets offer their own interpretations of stout ('cerveza negra') but you'd really have to use the term stout liberally with them - none have the rich flavours or smooth textures that Irish drinkers should be used to. In fact, many seem like black lagers.

This beer really impressed me. The aroma is sweet, initially reminding me of strawberries - maybe in milkshake or yoghurt form - but as my nose picks up the alcoholic hue it becomes ripe banana, again in milkshake or maybe even ice cream form, such is the underlying sweetness. There is a hint of toasted cereal but this is hard to detect behind the banana overtones. This beer wasn't as tempermental as the last and pouring it resulted in a nice, even, finger-thick head that dissipated quite quickly. The head never reaches the same density as a Guinness or a Beamish and by the end of the beer it has gone altogether.

The banana like character of the aroma remains as the beer hits the tongue but it is carried away quickly by a more bitter flavour that ends with a strong taste of alcohol as you swallow. This beer has none of the toasted coffee flavours of Guinness and its imitators. Nor does it have the charred meat flavour of some of the craft stouts I've tried in recent times. This stout has a definite fruity character that I find much easier on the palate than many of the other stouts on the market, despite its much higher alcohol content.

The higher alcohol content is something that I don't really notice as I drink the bottle but I certainly notice it as my body starts to digest the beer. Unless you want to unleash your inner Rasputin this might not be a beer for every day consumption - the price of €3 a bottle might also dissuade you - but if you want to relax with one or two bottles of something flavoursome, relatively light and quite special then this beer could be the one for you.

4.5/5