Belgian beer

I bought some Belgian beer from Specs Liquor Warehouse a few months ago, and I just got around to trying the Orval. It was expensive ($5 for a 12 ounce bottle), but worth it. What a fantastic beer, a light citrus taste with a very bitter hoppy finish.

There are over 450 different varieties of beer in the small kingdom of Belgium. Belgium is to beer what France is to wine. Blue Moon, a Belgian-Style white beer brewed by the Molson Coors, is becoming one of the most popular craft beers in the US, ranking at number two in 2007, just behind Samuel Adams Seasonal. I've been thinking about taking a trip to Belgium and doing a tour of breweries. I wonder how long it would take to sample each of the 450 different beers?