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Before my train from Brussels to Amsterdam, I padded down a nearby street to visit the Cantillon Brewery, where they make gueuze, kriek, and other lambic-style beer the old-fashioned way. I had their kriek last night, and it was one of the best things I’ve ever tasted: incredibly sour, intense cherry flavor. I didn’t expect […]
Brussels, Belgium
Brussels, Belgium

Before my train from Brussels to Amsterdam, I padded down a nearby street to visit the Cantillon Brewery, where they make gueuze, kriek, and other lambic-style beer the old-fashioned way. I had their kriek last night, and it was one of the best things I’ve ever tasted: incredibly sour, intense cherry flavor. I didn’t expect that I would have time to get over to the brewery, but fortunately the train schedule allowed for it (or so I thought; it turns out I had misread my ticket, thinking the arrival in Amsterdam time was the departure from Brussels time). Perhaps that was another fortunate mistake, because I wouldn’t have had time to go over to Cantillon if I had had the sense to read my ticket correctly. And I wouldn’t have tasted their spectacular gueuze, a small glass of which I enjoyed, or had another glass — a large one this time — of Cantillon kriek, which you see in the shot above, taken from my seat in the brewery’s cafe. (Don’t worry; the other glasses belong to the party that sat there before I did.) What I can tell you is this: Lord, now let your servant depart in peace, for my mouth hath tasted my favorite beer in all the world at its source, a light to enlighten beer drinkers the world over.

Another shot. Look at this man on staff at the Cantillon brewery, especially at his face. That is a happy man. He is happy because that is a pitcher of the beer he makes, and he is about to pour it for visitors. He does good work, making others happy, and that is why he is happy:

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