For some reason – probably because I've recently sampled a few choice beers (in moderate quantities I hasten to add) from Belgique, I thought I'd post a quick 'microbrand link' to a certain place/brew that slips (or sups) very neatly into the afore mentioned category.
Drum roll – it's Lambicland – 'the world's most complex beers and simplest cafés'. I quote from the font of all beer knowledge, Mr Tim Webb:
'From a peasant history, an as yet largely undiscovered craft beer called lambic, represents the lost masterpiece of the world of brewing. In chic beer emporia on the lower side of Manhattan they will ask and get $25.00 for a single bottle of this extraordinary brew. Yet in the cafés of its own country, Belgium, they eschew the authentic in favour of sweet imitations.
Just west of Brussels, twenty minutes from the places where the fate of Europe is decided, is an area called Payottenland. Here, among scattered villages, farmsteads and outcrops of industrial suburbia, they make lambic, probably the oldest, and certainly the most remarkable beer style, in the world.'
Cheers . . .
