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Random notes about beer globalization ...

Submitted by kev on Mon, 2006-08-14 17:34.

200608132242MaltingsI'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.

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