hi ,

I am making a study on special Belgian beers in europe.
The following questions can help me with this question
- would you be interested in belgian beer ?
- Which brand would you like to buy ?
- What is the price you expect to pay for that ?
if you only now answer 1 or 2 questions no prob send them ...

"stef" > wrote in message
> hi ,
>
> I am making a study on special Belgian beers in europe.
> The following questions can help me with this question
> - would you be interested in belgian beer ?
> - Which brand would you like to buy ?
> - What is the price you expect to pay for that ?
> if you only now answer 1 or 2 questions no prob send them ...

I'd love to, but I don't live in Europe. Do you still want to know? Cuz I
live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, and we drink more Belgian beer here
than in all of freaking Germany put together, and I ain't talking Stella
neither. Just so's you know.

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stef wrote in message >. ..
>hi ,
>
>I am making a study on special Belgian beers in europe.
>The following questions can help me with this question
>- would you be interested in belgian beer ?
Yes.

>- Which brand would you like to buy ?
Girardin Lambic.

>- What is the price you expect to pay for that ?
A lot.

>if you only now answer 1 or 2 questions no prob send them ...
OK.

/ Per

stef wrote:

>I am making a study on special Belgian beers in europe.
>The following questions can help me with this question
>
Well, IMHO you shpould look a little bit deeper into it first, and
realise that countries such as the Uk, France, Switzerland, Italy, the
Netherlands, even Scandinavia are already pretty much saturated with
belgians special beers already, ie. in those countries, beer enthusiasts
can already buy pretty much all the yould want in terms of Uk beers

>
>- would you be interested in belgian beer ?
>
Question is badly formulated : I am, have been for years.

>- Which brand would you like to buy ?
>
Again, badly formulated a question : there's probably something on the
lines of 150-200 different belgian beers currently available on the
Swiss market if you know where to look for them. And it's been the case
for 25 years or so. We even get beers that are reportedly hard to get
hold of outside the immediate vincinity of the brewery... >
Besides, trying to pick ONE brand over the whole Belgian beer scene is
IMHO plain silly. What makes it all interesting is its diversity !

>- What is the price you expect to pay for that ?
>
Standard price in a swiss specialist chop is CHF 3.50 to 4.00 swiss
francs for a 33cl bottle of Duvel or Chimay, and CHF 7.50 to 8.50 for a
75cl of the same. Rarer beers command a higher price, of course.

>if you only now answer 1 or 2 questions no prob send them ...
>
BTW You might be better off posting this on specific european NGs such
as uk.food+drink.real-ale, it.hobby birra, z-net.alt.bier,
fr.rec.boissons.bieres...

Cheers !

Laurent

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>>>>>> I am making a study on special Belgian beers in europe.
> The following questions can help me with this question
> - would you be interested in belgian beer ?
> - Which brand would you like to buy ?
> - What is the price you expect to pay for that ?
> if you only now answer 1 or 2 questions no prob send them ...

I live in the U.S. but spend about 10 weeks in Germany every year. I would
love to be able to buy Belgian beers in Hamburg (you can sometimes find
Chimay--but you have to search--and the bottles are dusty). The reason
they don't carry Belgian beers there, I think, has to do with a pathological
obsession with the Reinheitsgebot, and a bizarre closed-mindedness.

The beers I would like to buy there (as I can easily do in supermarkets in
France and Spain) are Orval, Bush, Duvel, anything called a tripel, anything
called a grand cru, Westvleteren, and anything else that is dynamic and
original.