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Geek Culture / The Importance of Beer

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Damokles
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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 15:26
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But you must admit that Belgium is much smaller than Quebec. We have many kinds of beers for our little area, and we're fiercely proud of it .

Most of the names I gave are not only one beer, but represents a collection of beers.
Example :
- Kriek Cerise
- Kriek Framboise
- ...

(fruity beers ... mmmh so tasty)

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Manticore Night
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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 16:14
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Quote: "- Kriek Cerise
- Kriek Framboise"
Hey, those names are french.(didn't look at the whole list above, just kinda assumed that they were words that I wouldn't understand, instead of just looking). Is french an official language in Belgium, don't they speak belgian. Excuse my ignorance, I only ever though of Canada, France, and a bunch of african counties were officially french.

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Damokles
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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 17:09
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Well, Belgium has 3 official languages :
- Dutch
- French
- German



Mostly I could say the northern part speaks dutch, french in the southern part and at the extreme East, it's German.
But that doesn't mean people are stuck in one of these languages. I have german-speaking friends, french-speaking ones and dutch-speaking friends. But most of them know also the other languages.

And we are all into belgian beers

P.S. Swiss speaks french too

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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 18:58
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An awful lot of Europe's breweries are owned by Interbrew anyway, so it's kind of hard to avoid 'Belgian' beer.

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