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Beverages · The pairing room

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Name the dish's structure and the whole cellar answers — wine, sake, tea, coffee, beer or spirits on structural merit, never category habit. The move is always named; the reason is always written out.

Japanese Pickled Plum: Umeboshi Production and the Alkaline Paradox · as the Library describes it — light to mid weight · seasoned · bright · a thread of smoke · led by shiso and anise · a morning plate · adjust this plate →
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Springbank 10 Year Old Campbeltown Single Malt Whisky · Springbank Distillery · Campbeltown the dish's smoke meets 'slight-peat' in the pour; smoke speaking to smoke. After the morning pours, where the service allows. Not yet carried in British Columbia — its page tells you where it comes from.
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Jameson Irish Whiskey Whisky · Irish Distillers — Midleton · County Cork — Midleton Distillery the dish's smoke meets 'light toasted wood' in the pour; smoke speaking to smoke. After the morning pours, where the service allows. Not yet carried in British Columbia — its page tells you where it comes from.
Suggestions are structural, drawn from each pour's own recorded markers · back to your cellar