Ik zie dat ik het woord “non” ben vergeten. Wat ik wilde zeggen was “Een Belg die liever buitenlandse biertjes drinkt, is dat niet ketterij?”
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Aha! Now I get it 
No I wouldn’t call it heresy… While we pride ourselves as a beer country, only drinking the local stuff would get boring quite rapidly.
That being said, there are lots of Belgian breweries that also make IPA’s and Russian Imperial Stouts… (just because there’s Russian in the name, doesn’t mean they’re brewed in Russia 
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I’m actually quite fond of all the magnificent little micro-breweries you have in The Netherlands!
(Just don’t serve me your supermarket beers, although Brandt and Amstel are fine I guess?)
My favorite website to order from is from your side of the border: Mister Hop
My all time favorite brewery is also from The Netherlands: Brouwerij De Moersleutel
With To Øl from Denmark being a close second
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I know it’s not heresy, it was just a joke. But I do feel it’s close to impossible for your beers to get boring, with over 1600 beers to chose from.
Have you tried La Trappe? It’s made in my hometown of Tilburg! I can recommend the triple.
As for Brandt and Amstel; Amstel is terrible. Brandt however is quite nice and I think many Limburgers would feel insulted of you label it as supermarktbier
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Visited the cloyster / brewery of La Trappe 2 years ago…
I still have 2 bottles of La Trappe Oak Aged aging in the cellar (batch 21 I think, the ones that were aged in white wine barrels).
I always buy little 2L vats for my Krupps SUB compact home tap… It’s one of the cheaper brands to get, and in all honestly, If I just want a quick cheap cold beer, it’s just fine for me. (Not that buying beer for that device is actually cheap 
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2 years ago, when I was at “De Zwarte Cross” festival in The Netherlands, the only beer we could get was Grolsch…
It took a lot of conviction to drink enough of the stuff to get properly drunk 
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Wow, obviously you’re a real beer connoisseur!
Interesting how tastes can vary. I personally do like Grosch, but not at a festival in a plastic cup. “Festival bier” is never that great. Only from a proper “beugelfles” should one drink Grolsch. 
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Wouldn’t say that, but I like to treat myself to the good stuff from time to time
Over there they where in a can, not in a plastic cup… But we very quickly discovered that if we chucked 1/3 of the can, and fill it back up with a liquor they called “Nozemoil” (something like flügel) it was actually quite drinkable, and we where shitfaced in no time 
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A Spanish red wine. Loios.
Quite nice.
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Polish good beer.
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A good meal - and then old-timey blues on the radio, with Irish Coffee and Brazil Flor Fina quality cigarillos. Ahh…doesn’t get much better!! OK, only thing better would be if I’d have time to homebrewing, and Linux, again. Better times will come!
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Love a GOOD Irish coffee. Use to pick a day to do mt Christmas shopping and stop in one of my favorite places and have one then go do my shopping.
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The trick is the cinnamon. Ideally, I’d have a fresh stick in the drink.
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Agree 1 BILLION percent.
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Remeber all that ‘‘Global Village’’ talk in the nineties, with the then new internet? Haha, the nostalgia! But damn if they were’nt right. Nowadays, it is almost as natural to share a beer with people basically across the globe, as it is to meet your new neighbour over the fence and invite him over for a cold beer in the garage. Gotta love it!
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No Guinness in the fridge so today it is Mac’s Black. A rather normal tasting Porter.
I am missing my usual though.
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Look what I found in the fridge - yet another beer from Foulmouthed Brewing (South Portland, Maine USA), who have been very impressive in my tastings so far. This is their Yuzu Kosho Gose. I bought this one about 2 weeks ago and forgot I had it.
Yuzu Kosho is a Japanese condiment made from chili peppers (usually Bird’s Head peppers) fermented with salt along with juice and zest from yuzu, a tart citrus fruit that grows in East Asia. Let’s see what this brings to the table.
Pours with a slight, rapidly diminishing head. It looks hazier (and somewhat darker) in the photo than it is in real life. A very mellow aroma, slightly sour with a bit of citrus scent.
On the tongue, you know this is a gose right from the start. Slightly less salinity than most American gose, but bracing nonetheless. Nicely sour (more so than a lot of gose), and the Yuzu Kosho influence is mild, with a noticeable citrusy tang, mildly grapefruit-esque but also subtly lemony, and a nice, mild spiciness rising on the medium-length finish. A tiny taste of funkiness, which I always enjoy. Like all gose, it’s very refreshing.
Another big winner from Foulmothed Brewing. This is my second favorite (American-style) gose to date, butting up against the phenomenal Rising Tide Brewing (Portland, Maine USA) Pisces Gose. I’m beginning to think this brewery can do no wrong.
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Nothing special today, just a 50cl can of Jupiler, which is our highest selling supermarket beer…
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Jupiler in Belgium, you take your case of 24 bottles back to the seller as consigned, then you pay it very less expensive 
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Pas seulement Jupiler
I’m guessing we’re not the only country doing this, but yeah, we have a few standard shapes of beer bottles that most brands use here (but not all of them).
The most common are the tall 25cl bottle, tall 33cl bottle and a shorter chubby 33cl variant (like Duvel).
We use this for a deposit-return system.
We pay a deposit for the plastic crate itself, and we get about 10cents per bottle back when we return it.
Doesn’t matter if we return a mix of different beer brands in the same crate, as long as the shape of the bottles is the same. (some shops don’t even care about that, and just count each type of bottle manually and pay us back)
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Belgium is the only other country I saw people paying a deposit, be it just 5 euro for the crate itself. During my time working there, I pretty much lived off of Jupiler lol.
Here in Lithuania, for a few years now, we have to pay a deposit for every bottle (glass or plastic) and can, alcoholic or not, we buy – then we can return them to any specific location to get our money back.
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Definitely have the deposit system going here in Canada - most beers are sold in ‘stubby’ bottles - mix and match for returns:
(looks like a party!)
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