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What is brewing in the Divided States of Belgium?
It would certainly lead us into an enchanting tangent
to explore all 450+ of the nobel brews.
Alas, time and webspace are limited. So what would be a
worthy choice to make? What brews could proudly represent
the country that Michael Jackson (the "Beerhunter",
of course) with more infatuation than objectivity described
as follows:
This country has known more foreign rulers than Louisiana,
more wars have been fought over its territory then over
most spice islands, and yet the Belgians have survived.
They have always managed to take more from their rulers
than vice versa. The result is a nation of individualists
that set a proud face against any form of authority.
Their brews are equally individualist.
A small class of beers is called Trappist ales.
Only six breweries, all run by Trappist monks (which is what
gives this peculiar class) their name, produce this rich,
mostly quite potent and sometimes downright idiosynchronatic
brews.
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