Lambic – the enchanting beer from Belgium
With its roughly 11 million inhabitants, Belgium is one of the smallest countries in Europe; however, despite its size, Belgium’s cultural heritage looms large. Comics by Hergé (Tintin and Snowy), Morris (Lucky Luke) and Peyo (The Smurfs) are popular the world over. Its gastronomic contributions are equally famous, if not more so: pommes frites (french fries), Belgian waffles and pralines and not least the astonishing diversity of its beer culture are all part of the diminutive kingdom’s national treasure it has shared with the rest of the world. Belgian beer flows not only out of the massive kettles and tanks of the giant conglomerates but from innumerable tiny breweries, which have nestled nicely into the “niche of microbreweries”, producing a range of remarkable beer styles. Without a doubt, the exhilarating brewery Cantillon belongs to the latter, at home in the country’s capital of Brussels. An inimitable elixir is formed in its wooden barrels, a sour beer known as lambic, to be savored in a number of distinct variations.
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