Brussels, and how to survive there.

http://www.bas-ne.org/advs/products/interbrew/interbrew.htm another interesting one !

i didnt read the whole thing , but you are right in that , even i got crappy french 🙂 . but i liked the part where you could listen how for example duvel is pronounced in dutch 🙂

Interesting link there Joker! Though I have to say that my experience of travel in Brussels is nothing like that described! To say that you are more or less regarded as sh*t if you don’t speak French is just that – sh*t! We don’t speak French, and have never, ever encountered problems from the people of Brussels, even when we have been looking at street maps, they have come to talk to us, and given us good directions and been generally helpful. What that website says paints the people of Brussels in a very bad light, and I just had to say something in their defence!

http://www.belgianstyle.com/mmguide/pronounce/speak.html 🙂

Drink it “locally” in say 10 minutes, then add another, and another, and… 😀

So, you can taste more than one !

I like your idea there Frank! I have two more trips to Belgium this year – 10 days of beer drinking in September and one day of beer buying in November. I try to cram in as many new types as I can whilst trying the favourites I cannot get at home 😀 (And my last Sloeber took only 40 minutes to drink!)

Brussels? That’s local! Apart from the small stretch of Channel I think Florennes is closer to my place than Waddington.

Go on and enjoy yaself, Steve.

My record for a beer is spending 90 minutes drinking one Sloeber (what else can you do when you have to import the beer from Belgium when you go on holiday?)

Drink it “locally” in say 10 minutes, then add another, and another, and… 😀

So, you can taste more than one !

i havent tried that with bushs yet , and yes kasteelbeer has to be served on room tempature . with normal beer like for example Jupiler or stella i manage to drink 15 of them in a row and look pretty decent afterwards , but , i allready seem like an alcoholic allready to the other ppl here 😎

duvel indeed is a beer not everyone will like on first try , have to love it or hate it , but be warned , even the belgian beer drinker cant take more then 8 duvels in an hour , i found out the hard way 😉 , also i like the dark kasteelbeer better then the light one but that just personal taste :).

I was once in Brugge and they served the dark Kasteel straight out of the fridge – very cold. I prefer my dark beers at cellar temperature. We always give the goldens a chill though.

I cannot even imagine drinking eight Duvels in one hour! How many Bushs could you drink in an hour (and still be standing afterwards?)
My record for a beer is spending 90 minutes drinking one Sloeber (what else can you do when you have to import the beer from Belgium when you go on holiday?) I had to savour the beer because I didn’t know when I would taste another. As it was, I had a trip to Brussels in March to buy some Sloeber, and came back with four bottles.

i dont know that one , but there is a contest if you can drink 10 of them within the hour you win the jackpot , from radio donna or something , but thats impossible for for everyone .

8 duvels/hour? That’s suicide. There’s an unwritten rule that if you can drink 5 Duvels without going to the toilet (and still be able to walk), you don’t have to pay for them.

duvel indeed is a beer not everyone will like on first try , have to love it or hate it , but be warned , even the belgian beer drinker cant take more then 8 duvels in an hour , i found out the hard way 😉 , also i like the dark kasteelbeer better then the light one but that just personal taste :).

Dont forget to try duvel and kasteelbeer , now those are good beers 😀

You need to acquire the taste for Duvel I think, it is not a beginners golden ale. Sloeber is the easier one to drink. It took me a couple of attempts before I finally got the taste for Duvel. Kasteel is indeed good, though the blond is better than the dark one I think. Another must try is Rochefort, the 10 is one of Belgium’s best beers (it is one of the Trappist beers for which Belgium is famous). (Contrary to many popular beliefs of people who don’t know what they are talking about, Leffe is not a Trappist beer, it is a beer produced in the abbey style by a regular brewery).
Belgium’s strongest beer is Bush, at 12%. Unofficially, Bush Noel can get up to 13% but this is always marketed as a 12% beer.

And Zaventem Airport – can’t wait to see it again 😀 I have four more flights with SNBA this year, and that is just wonderful!

Zaventem Airport. So bugger off.

(Sigh!) This isn’t an aviation forum! This is a general discussion forum!
What aspect of aviation are we discussing here?;)

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From brewerie ‘MURDERHOLE’? 😀

That’s what I like about Belgians, their first post on an aviation forum however only discussing beers :p

Dont forget to try duvel and kasteelbeer , now those are good beers 😀

Tax pressure in Belgium is quite high, 21% VAT on Luxury goods and 6% on food. However, Belgium is still cheaper than the UK. Brussels is a nice place, I like to come there. I don’t really know about the traffic congestion there.
Belgium is the country with the highest concentration of highways in Europe. Every “big” (for us belgians) city is connected with eachother. Still traffic is quite chaotic, but where isn’t it?

I’ve never had a problem holding my Kwak glass 😀 (but then again I’m never drunk, even on these ultra strong beers I drink!)

Yes, that might work…;)

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