Laura Hadland
@morrighani.bsky.social
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Drinks writer and printmaker. My latest book, 'Beer Festivals: a great British tradition,' is out now.
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Was handed a medicinal Talisker by one of my quiz teams, so not all bad tonight.
A dram of Talisker with a single ice cube is held up in front of the busy lounge of quiz teams.
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Urgh, sorry you've been poorly too! It's not nice.
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And by celebration, I mean a full fat Lemsip, because I've not even touched my paracetomol quota for the day yet.
morrighani.bsky.social
Good news everyone! After pretty much a week of the most horrible cold, I feel like I may have turned a corner this afternoon.

As such, I'm going to be (reasonably) OK for calling my quiz tonight and maybe, just maybe, I might get some reasonable sleep tonight!

This calls for celebration.
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Well that's all jolly helpful Andreas, not least because I am writing about the unions as we speak and going to Wheatlow on Friday!! I will shameless steal some of this info and credit you.
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Perfect parent's evening report for Bammers tonight, no notes.
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Laurieston, Pot Still and a stop at the Wee Beer Shop before heading over the road to Koelschip Yard.
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What do we want? Brewery clobber. When do we want it? Now. 💁‍♀️
📷 by the tabard-snapping @morrighani.bsky.social at the Damm Eagle Brewery celebrations last week.
morrighani.bsky.social
It's the bump caps that really set the outfit off.
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The second person to ask me this. People don't read anymore 😂
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Repeating myself for the morning crowd, because I'm pleased.
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Very chuffed to have picked up a second place in the @nagbw.bsky.social awards tonight for my piece on cider apple DNA profiling for @ciderreview.bsky.social.

cider-review.com/2024/11/02/h...

Congratulations to all the winners, it was a pleasure to see so many friends picking up awards too!
2025 NAGBW Awards Ceremony Winners

North American Guild of Beer Writers

Best Other Beverage Reporting

Second Place

Hadland, Laura. "How do you fingerprint an apple?" Cider Review, November 2, 2024. https://cider-review.com/2024/11/02/how-do-you-fingerprint-an-apple/

Pull quote: "It's exactly the same as the forensic services use [...] We used it to identify one individual versus another. We generate a barcode for the individual and we match it up to the barcode of other individuals. If they match, they're the same and if they're different, then they're different varieties.""
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Thanks for giving me an undeserved air of mystique, Dave!
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Right, I've drained my celebratory hot blackcurrant (maxed out my Lemsip quota already), off to bed I go.
morrighani.bsky.social
And congratulations to you for your well deserved award too.
morrighani.bsky.social
So sorry mate. It roundly sucks.
morrighani.bsky.social
Very chuffed to have picked up a second place in the @nagbw.bsky.social awards tonight for my piece on cider apple DNA profiling for @ciderreview.bsky.social.

cider-review.com/2024/11/02/h...

Congratulations to all the winners, it was a pleasure to see so many friends picking up awards too!
2025 NAGBW Awards Ceremony Winners

North American Guild of Beer Writers

Best Other Beverage Reporting

Second Place

Hadland, Laura. "How do you fingerprint an apple?" Cider Review, November 2, 2024. https://cider-review.com/2024/11/02/how-do-you-fingerprint-an-apple/

Pull quote: "It's exactly the same as the forensic services use [...] We used it to identify one individual versus another. We generate a barcode for the individual and we match it up to the barcode of other individuals. If they match, they're the same and if they're different, then they're different varieties.""
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Might be an idea like 🤣
morrighani.bsky.social
You absolutely can pay for it, if you want to! I think most pharmacies offer it.
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I was glad to get home on Thursday. No more trips away for a whole three weeks. I was excited just to get back to normal for a bit.

So naturally I immediately came down with a stinking cold. ALWAY happens.