On 5/31/2008 10:38 AM Steve Jackson ignored two million years of human
evolution to write:

> Dick Adams wrote:
>
>> If the Belgians started brewing Industrial Light
>> lagers in Belgium, the Trappist Monks would burn
>> them at the stake.
>
> Um, there aren't many fires around the Stella Artois brewery (owned by
> InBev, incidentally).

Or sister brewery Jupiler, or SCAM's Maes brewery, and even smaller
concerns like Bavik put out an everyday lager; hell, even Mechelen's
Het Anker brewery, known mainly for its Gouden Carolus line, makes
a lager.

And there are some beers, like Bavik's awful sweet Wittekerke Rosé,
that are still mediocr junk, no matter how credible the base beer and
brewer might be. Belgians are perfectly capable of producing (and
sometimes, consuming) mediocre swill, as is any brewing country.
--
dgs