Going on from the best beer topic, I have been to the best brewing town in Belgium today – Oudenaarde, which has four breweries in its boundaries and they produce great beer, nothing beats a Sloeber drunk outside on a cafe terrace in the warm sunshine (although there was mist hanging about today). Tomorrow will be Antwerp, not many beers brewed there but it is a great place.[http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/sabenabelgianairlines]
By: Comet - 30th September 2002 at 13:18
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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 30-09-02 AT 01:19 PM (GMT)]History is tough Geforce, I know what you mean, I dropped it at the first possible opportunity to concentrate on science and languages (well, Spanish anyway). No, Belgium isn’t the only country which serves beer to students (probably the only country which serves PROPER beer though :-)!) The “university” I was at had the bar which served “beer” (though the stuff we get here is like brown water compared to the beauties you Belgians can get hold of!!) You are lucky to be in a place with so many pubs!!
I have finally compiled my Christmas beer order, we are requesting around 30 bottles of various Belgian types – Tongerlo, Ename, Corsendonk, Sloeber, Rochefort 6, 8, 10, Chimay Red, the list goes on!! I will be submitting it on Wednesday and waiting for the woman in the shop to retire to the madhouse!!!
By the way, LOVE the logo at the bottom of your posting. Some of the SN Brussels planes still have full Sabena livery, at least they did when I was last in Brussels on 12th September.
(When I read your message there was a Sabena logo on the bottom of your posting but it had gone when I posted this).
By: Geforce - 27th September 2002 at 15:24
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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 27-09-02 AT 03:42 PM (GMT)]I know, it’s a wonderful place, but quite dangerous for me. If have to from one college to the other one, I have to pass about 52 pubs on the Old Marketplace and the Ladeuzeplein. Yeah, studying history is tough though ;-). Oops better get back to work.
Is Belgium the only country where the cathering service of the university offers beer to its student. I was talking to some Americans studying there, and they couldn’t believe that there’s a bar in every possible college in Leuven.
By: Comet - 27th September 2002 at 13:04
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More on the beer. The woman at our local beer shop has a notice in her window offering to order unusual beers for Christmas. The poor thing doesn’t know what she’s letting herself in for putting up a sign like that!!!! I could give her a few – Rochefort 6, 8 and 10, Hapkin, Kasteel Blond, Tongerlo, Ename Dubbel and Tripel, Corsendonk, Delerium Nocturnum (the dark Delerium), Maes, Jupiler, Sloeber, I could go on and on.
Geforce – you are still making me jealous about Leuven, rather be there than in bloody Scarborough believe me.[www.groups.yahoo.com/group/sabenabelgianairlines]
By: Arthur - 24th September 2002 at 15:50
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The cinema’s in Tilburg are verry bad and the others in the
Netherlands are not so good either if you once bin to the
Metropolis.
Ahhh… you should try to sit your butt sore at Cinecitta and then rinse it all away with a nice beer menu at Kandinsky. Tilburg definately has it’s charms, although the cinema in de Heuvel isn’t all that much indeed.
By: Geforce - 24th September 2002 at 15:27
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Yeah I’m at Leuven for the moment, been here two days and already know all the interesting places (read bars) here }>. Next week I’m going with two of my fellow American students to Antwerp to guide them into the city, the city I love so much.
By: Comet - 23rd September 2002 at 13:23
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I can’t really comment on Leuven, I’ve only been through on the train (a train from Brugge to Verviers when I was going to Spa). If it is all Interbrew in the pubs then I can just imagine it to be all Stella, Leffe and Hoegaarden, not to mention Belle Vue Kriek, first time I was in Brussels nearly every pub I went in just served Interbrew stuff and a beer festival I went to on the Grand Place in Brussels last year was all Interbrew, so I had a Jupiler, but I do like Maes (can’t get it in England). Geforce – Corsendonk is indeed a great beer, as is De Koninck and Westmalle. Hapkin is good if you can track it down. I still like the Oudenaarde beers though. Mechelen may not be as good as Brugge, but it will be hell of alot better than Paris!!!!
By: shorthome - 17th September 2002 at 15:09
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I mean Metropolis, no I live in Tilburg. I think thats nearby because there is a bus going from Tilburg station to Turnhout.
The cinema’s in Tilburg are verry bad and the others in the Netherlands are not so good either if you once bin to the Metropolis. Maybe the Cinema in Amsterdam near the soccerstadium of Ajax(Booh).
But we do not go there verry often because I moved from near Amsterdam to the south.
By: Geforce - 17th September 2002 at 14:56
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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 17-09-02 AT 02:57 PM (GMT)]Nope, thats Jupiler you mean. But then I’d rather drink water from the canal }>. Anyway, the best beers are not brewed in Leuven but in Corsendonk, a 10 min walk from my house. }>
Gosh I don’t hate beer, cause I would turn nuts with all those breweries. Don’t come live here if you got an alcohol problem.
By: frankvw - 17th September 2002 at 14:53
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Yup… Stella. Made from water ot of the canal 🙂
By: Geforce - 17th September 2002 at 14:52
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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 17-09-02 AT 02:54 PM (GMT)]You mean the Metropolis or the Gaument??? the gaumont is in the middle of Antwerp, not far from the railway station. I guess you live somewhere near Eindhoven, right? (I live in Turnhout)
People here often go to eindhoven or breda, to buy err … coffee and stuff }>
By: shorthome - 17th September 2002 at 14:50
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Also bin to Leuven before the Beauvechain airshow, It was fun only the bierkelder was a strange place.
But Antwerpen has a verry nice Cinema, go there 1 or to thimes in a month. It is the best cinema I’ve ever bin!
By: Geforce - 17th September 2002 at 14:50
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Drinking a couple of bollekes (De Koninck) and studying is much more fun :7. At least I’m happy I don’t live next to Interbrew, that would be bad. Leuven has only two things: the world third biggest brewery and a university, a bad combination. 😉
By: frankvw - 17th September 2002 at 14:41
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Especially the cafés, eh? }>
By: Geforce - 17th September 2002 at 14:33
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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 17-09-02 AT 02:40 PM (GMT)]Yeah, I’m studying in Leuven, next to the old library is (and lots of little cosy cafe’s), on the market square.
By: Arthur - 17th September 2002 at 14:26
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Got a few beers two weeks back in Leuven (after Beauvechain airshow), i really like the place. Glad i wasn’t the driver…
By: Geforce - 17th September 2002 at 14:24
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The distance between the railway station and the zoo is about 50 meters. Haven’t been to the zoo in a long while, but indeed, it’s a superb place.
Planning to go to Mechelen. Well have been there a couple of times, it’s not half as nice as Antwerp or Brugges.
By: Comet - 17th September 2002 at 13:45
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You make me so jealous Geforce 🙂 Didn’t see as much as I intended of Antwerp this year, went straight from the station to the zoo and spent ages there. I intend to head to the river area next year if I get chance. As you say, it’s a superb place and you are so damned lucky to live there. I’m off to Mechelen next year, a change from Brugge.
By: Geforce - 6th September 2002 at 09:49
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Ahh Antwerp, juwel of western Europe :D. I fell in love with that city, and it’s only a 20 min drive from here. De groenplaats, the cathedral, city hall …
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