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#Repost @beer4gonzo ・・・ I was lucky enough to get my hands on a Pliny the Younger this year. Aromas are very west-coast with pine and resinous, dank hops, not a lot of heavy alcohol. The taste is hoppy and flavorful, crisp, piney, grapefruit, citrus. Sharp west coast style while being incredibly balanced for a triple IPA. Crisp mouthfeel, medium body with a nice clean finish. 10/10 🍻🍻🍻 #beer #craftbeer #beerstagram #beertography #craftbeerporn #craftbeerlover #craftbeernotcrapbeer #craftbeerculture #beerventures #brewventures #craftbeerjedi #craftbeersith #ipa #tipa #plinytheyounger #plinytheyounger2021 #hops #hoppylifehappylife https://www.instagram.com/p/CLiwlzLrqij/?igshid=vdy5uq2k9k96

#plinytheyounger is on again @pizzaportsc ! Cheers! 🍻🍻 (at Pizza Port San Clemente) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9ADQ4GpGKI/?igshid=7yphy1x3nv0s

i really want to still look like me but have an elderly british don gentleman voice, perhaps one that i can turn on and off

to make a long story short, the textile workers in the Neo-Assyrian Empire had access to many different kinds of vegetable dyes and could produce various shades of blue/green, brown, black, and maybe orange. There’s also a bright crimson red made from kermes, a kind of scale insect (like cochineal), and a whole range of blue, blue/purple. red/purple, red, and black dyes made from sea snails, of which the most important are a color referred to as takiltu (a blue-purple, like Hebrew tekhelet) and argamannu (a red-purple, probably identical to Tyrian purple). The color i’ve matched is argamannu (and as we all know, tekhelet is a whole other kettle of molluscs).  It’s theorized that paradigmatic takiltu and argamannu come from different species of snail (Hexaplex trunculus and Bolinus brandaris) - buuuuut both color terms can refer to a fairly wide variety of shades and the textual sources don’t distinguish between colors achieved with shellfish dyes and vegetable dyes, and in any case Akkadian color terms have more to do with brightness and saturation than precise hue, so who knows. Information on how they were manipulating the cloth is much harder to come by; there’s a debate in the literature over whether patterned hems are woven or embroidered or sewn-on gold plaques, and probably it’s some combination of the three. Please don’t ask me about weaving. 

@plinytheyounger: 'you don't get legs that long without a price!'

Here’s another snippet of a big thing soon to be revealed. And, again, since there are no cats on this structure, please enjoy the pic of me in a heated debate with Bella over who was better: Pliny the Elder or Pliny the Younger. #squarepaws #cattowers #catcafe #southbeach #plinytheelder #plinytheyounger #tacitus #ancientromanhistory #beachlife https://www.instagram.com/p/BoOtbkBBia6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=inydssc2dygg