after all this beer, how are we supposed to believe your judgment?

...but without the humor this is a childish discussion. It all depends on your taste or what you are used to. Even if beer might be the only interesting discussion in a Belgian politics thread

> Little Paul wrote:

> after all this beer, how are we supposed to believe your judgment?

...but without the humor this is a childish discussion. It all depends on your taste or what you are used to. Even if beer might be the only interesting discussion in a Belgian politics thread

aye there is no right or wrong taste. but i think Belgians have nothing like the British porters and stouts.  Alot of the time, the only thing a belgian beer does for me is make me want a british beer even more

i think in 50 years the US will have the best beer. it seems like alot of european breweries are stuck up in the past and specific styles. where American microbreweries especially in California, Colorado, and Michigan are making new, great beers, with no loyalty to older beers or a specific style of beer to hold them back.

> East wrote:

> meh there is a lot of small scale and local beer brewing going on in europe too, it just doesn't reach the US market very often because it is... well... small scale and local

oh, i know there is

and who owns the Lower Germanies, if not El Catolicissimo?

Part of them used to be Calvinist. Now religion hasn't got that much power anymore.

a little educational explanation to give this thread a purpose:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geuzen

My grandmother's name is Grijalva

And they go back to Don Diego de Grijalva

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Belgium to rent Dutch jail cells

Tight on space in its jails, Belgium will start renting 500 cells at Tilburg prison in neighbouring Netherlands.

The agreement will make up for the shortage of cells across Belgium and send roughly 500 prisoners away for three years.

Belgium will pay 30m euros (