Path: news.ccsf.jp!norn-news!news.heimat.gr.jp!news.snarked.org!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!unknown!not-for-mail From: mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: My mini mid life crisis Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:07:27 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Subtlties R'nt Us Lines: 22 Sender: scjmmod@haven.eyrie.org Message-ID: References: <0286c24a-2d84-4334-b3f8-5f02ca913fd6@u28g2000yqf.googlegroups.com> <624a90a4-6158-414a-8481-0b5a1303fe53@h7g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <121b8500-f942-418c-806b-66f7d4821faa@h25g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <4f236a85-909c-4b2f-8f1a-98e636d83d22@p29g2000pre.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: mtfester@netscape.net NNTP-Posting-Host: haven.eyrie.org X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1310443647 29373 166.84.7.159 (12 Jul 2011 04:07:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu User-Agent: tin/1.9.3-20080506 ("Dalintober") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.35.4-xen3-U (i686)) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:170088 Declan Murphy wrote: > On Jul 11, 10:37?pm, CL wrote: > > On 07/11/2011 06:35 PM, Declan Murphy wrote: > > Belgians, yes, I do have them and enjoy them often, but let's face it, > > most of the Dutch beers have been reduced to a uniform horse piss status > > by Stella Artois through their numerous takeovers and quality > > devolutions, much like the reduction of most champagne to porcine wee > > status through "quality standardization." ?A decent Asti or cava is much > > better than anything the French produce and charge 3x for. > For Belgian beers I tend to stick to Chimay, Orval, Delirium, Pauwel > Kwaak and Duvel, though having the Leffe on tap makes a huge > difference. Problem is getting through the 30L kegs quickly. !st half > keg is fantastic. 2nd half of a keg, I tend to start thinking of > stewing a rabbit etc. Tangential, but I wonder when the Japanese craft beers are going to start becoming more available. Some of the few I've had have been very good, but are nearly impossible to find. Mike