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Black Chicken Risotto

Taste is not just a matter of taste. It is not just a personal thing, but heavily based on culture and geography. There is much to appreciate and learn from such differences. I am nevertheless at times amazed, at what

/ April 4, 2012

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Black Chicken Risotto

Taste is not just a matter of taste. It is not just a personal thing, but heavily based on culture and geography. There is much to appreciate and learn from such differences. I am nevertheless at times amazed, at what

/ April 4, 2012

Cap for Black Xantus - Imperial Cofee Stout / Nectar Ales, California

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Coffee Beers #2 (25.VI.11): Black Xantus – Nectar Ales, California

We humans have been eating and drinking perhaps longer than we are “humans”, but this deep-rooted ability and need of ours might still be something we do not completely understand. It is even more difficult to grasp what the industries

/ June 30, 2011 / Leave a comment

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Coffee Beers #2 (25.VI.11): Black Xantus – Nectar Ales, California

We humans have been eating and drinking perhaps longer than we are “humans”, but this deep-rooted ability and need of ours might still be something we do not completely understand. It is even more difficult to grasp what the industries

/ June 30, 2011 / Leave a comment

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Towards the end of the thirdteenth century the idea of infusing herbal plants to substract their active ingredients reached European soil. The intention was to heal, for which reason only apothecaries and monasteries were responsible for this new science and only alchemists had access to the needed information. It was with the colonial age that sugar came into the picture and with it new possibilities, so that towards the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the use of liqeuers was pretty much established for their pleasure value, appreciated for their aroma or their effect. Its importance as remedie diminished in the society. Then came coffee and dozens of firms developt their own coffee liqueur recipies. This is a sample of my third one.