globalization
Submitted by kev on Mon, 2006-08-14 17:34.
  I'm staying about 200m downwind from the Stella Artois brewery--the biggest brewery in Belgium, the most beer-obsessed country in the world. It smells quite nice here. This is the beer that's marketed as "Reassuringly Expensive" in the US, although it's considered low-end and is relatively inexpensive here.
I heard from a little brewery around here that Stella is the only brewery in the country that makes its own malt.
Submitted by kev on Tue, 2006-08-01 09:29.
This is Rotterdam harbour, which was the biggest harbour in the world until two years ago when it was surpassed in total container shipments by--you guessed it-- Beijing. I have a hard time appreciating the scale here, it's bigger than i think any of us can possibly conceptualize. I shelled out 8 euros for a little 1.5 hour boat tour, and which probably didn't even cover half the harbour. For globalization/supply chain/transportation geeks, there are more pictures in an album here.
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I'm staying about 200m downwind from the Stella Artois brewery--the biggest brewery in Belgium, the most beer-obsessed country in the world. It smells quite nice here. This is the beer that's marketed as "Reassuringly Expensive" in the US, although it's considered low-end and is relatively inexpensive here.
