>>>So, you go to Belgium to get drunk ?
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>>>An overview : http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Belgian+beer
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>>>And we do have a lot of them http://www.belgian-beer.net/fullindex.php?BelgianBeerNet=166ebf3b9a3d25d3ae20921d71c1268d
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>>>It will take you some time to taste all of them - after 16:00 this is
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>>>
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>>>This is a nice beer : http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Rodenbach The brewery is not far from where I live
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>>I was chatting with a friend last night, she was saying how when she was in Paris, the waiters kept plying her with different types of wine to taste, when what she really wanted was a beer.
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>>We then ruminated on our inability to name a single French beer... not one. The French *must* have a beer industry, don't they? Maybe they just don't export anything...
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>Plenty - I asked on a french newsgroup - http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_marques_de_bi%C3%A8res_brass%C3%A9es_en_France

You live literally next door to France, and you had to ask a French newsgroup? Kind of proves my point, doesn't it? ;-)