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And why is it Belgium?

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[–] fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

USA. And I'm not talking Budweiser. Craft breweries are plentiful, often paired with some local music and hopefully some locally sourced meals.

[–] zloubida@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Westvleteren was considered as one of the best beers in the world and very hard to obtain outside of Belgium. But about a decade ago they needed to raise money for repairs or something, so they exported a big batch. My buddy and I searched high and low as there was a buying frenzy for this stuff, until randomly in a small mountain town liquor store on the floor of their walk-in fridge we found a flat of this stuff, so we bought them all. Anyway I didn't like it at all haha found it it way too "flavourful" price-is-right-sad-trombone.wav

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[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Two words: Saison DuPont

More words: avec les bons voeux de la brasserie dupont

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Countries don't make good beers. Artisans do. I do.

[–] zloubida@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Indeed, but cultures help artisans to grow in competence or not. Belgian culture does, and quite a lot.

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

That is true, but then there are situations where it's constraints that enable artisans to push the limits, experiment. Belgium has a respectable tradition and I like Trappist beers a lot, thus I reverse-engineer them a lot, too.

Our culture limits artisans hard, selling quality beer to anyone here is economically unsound. Yet I consider it as an opportunity to fight the challenge.

[–] finalaccountforreal@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Correct! ...so which country has the best artisans? :p

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

As I said, I'm in Finland

[–] Wigners_friend@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Rwanda. Virunga mist is the shit.

I need to try that!