Russian-style stout beers are all the rage in some American brewpubs. The World’s Jason Margolis finds out what makes these stouts special and what the connection to Russia is really all about. Download MP3 Video: Tour the Portsmouth Brewing Co.
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My rather hurried effort to capture and put into words the quintessential feelings – environmentally, physically and emotionally – of what were those dark, complex Winter days in 2007 walking home from University while living in Russia.
Drifted snow, black ice
Winter chokes my face, fingers numb
A Norse-like grip stunts 3pm into silence
Muffled frenzy
Heart still beating,
And encircle each strand of frost-nipped hair
Birds above soar swallowed up by the gray,
And scattering, aimless, as if to say:
Southward flight isn’t an option – just survive, survive somehow, somehow until Spring’s near…
Swirling atmospheric gloom
Stony-faces glares glaring out of mink chapki
And haughty silver-fox’ strut briskly on by…
And yet my heart beatsbeatsbeatsbeatsbeats
Despite this January life…
