Coffee growers had beans roasted on the bush when the peaty soil caught fire.

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The Triple Smoke is a tasty American single malt whiskey with a golden colour and a peaty butterscotch flavour.

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Some people prefer a dry and peaty Islay, others the sweetness of a Speyside or the depth of a Campbeltown.

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Some have never gone out, but have smouldered on in peaty soil or coal seams underground and have rekindled themselves.

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If you want to take its salty, peaty ambrosia home with you, a bottle from the souvenir shop will set you back about 20, 000 yen.

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Now it was nutty, redolent of caramel, peppery, and that toasted, peaty character that threw me for a loop at first was all of a sudden awesome.

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Much of Dublin's early history is as murky as the peaty basin where the River Liffey joined the now-underground River Poddle, near the site of what is today the Dublin Castle gardens.

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The idea is simple: propel yourself down two narrow 120-metre-long bog water-filled trenches using only your feet (no swimming strokes allowed) and the first to past the peaty post is the winner.

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Last year a Dutch study found that draining Indonesian swamps to make way for oil-palm plantations resulted in 33 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions for each tonne of palm oil produced, by speeding up the decomposition of the peaty soil.

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