I have Affligem, Grimbergen, Leffe (3 types), Chimay (2 types) and some other stuff. That’ll stay at home. i’ll get a fourpack of Tesco Value Bitter. That’s great stuff.

It is both their blessing and their curse that they do not know. But I know, I have always known.

(Not Blade runner)

Bloody hell is that the best you can do?! There are actually five types of Leffe (Blonde, Brune, Radieuse, Tripel and Vieille Cuvee!) and three types of Chimay (not counting those in the big bottles which are just rebottlings of the others) – Red (7%), White top (8%) and Blue (9%). There are at least two Grimbergens, more than one Affligem.

You should see the beauties we have in our cupboard after a day trip to Brussels – all the Rocheforts (6, 8 and 10), Ciney (Blond last time), Ename (Tripel last time), Brugs, Piraat, Hapkin, Jan van Gent, De Koninck to name a few.

And on Saturday I am drinking the undisputed God of Beers, the one and only Sloeber brewed in a town called Mater, near Oudenaarde, by the Roman brewery. That beats the crap out of the cheap water you get in the supermarkets here!