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    We are going to reach seven hundred dead any day now

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    Quote Originally Posted by Septentrionalis View Post
    We are going to reach seven hundred dead any day now
    What country?

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    Finland, presumably.

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    I was going to say Kyrgyzstan, but I'll be happy with Finland just the same.

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    I don't believe in countries. In fact I don't believe in anything for that matter.

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    Don't you even believe that you are going to have a beer tonight? That is something I have never lost my faith in.

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    That is something I don't have to believe in. I know I will have a beer tonight. Maybe 2. Maybe 3. Maybe 4. The night is young and so am I.

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    Well a friendly cheers to you then! I need to get some stuff done, but later tonight it is beer time.

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    Kippis sille!

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    Prost.

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    I think, i must have the last one from christmas in the fridge.^^
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    Tonight is definitely a beer night. As are most nights to be fair, but you have to hold on to the reasons to celebrate don't you?
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    And otherwise you just make things up to celebrate. All celebrations are made up anyway so why not add to them?

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    Right on, brothers! Being alive is reason enough to drink beer.

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    And to put my beer where my mouth is, I just opened the first one.

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    I just finished drinking a bottle of fine flemish red ale

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    Schol!

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    Wow, looks classy, what with the glass and the fancy bottle and all!

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    Rodenbach for sure is one of the more fancy beers out there (especially the vintage batches). We like to make beer an art here in Belgium with detail to different kinds of glasses for different kinds of beers. It's one of the few things we have that is completely ours culturally speaking.

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    That is the impression I have had. Belgium really puts class in beer. Is there a difference in between the Walloon and Flemish people in terms of preferences?

    I recently wrote about how Finnish people have had this unnatural disposition to wine in recent times (and to some degree today) as if it was something very special, whereas wine countries such as Italy have a far more pragmatic and everyday approach.

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    There isn't really a preference difference between Flemings and Walloons in beers, not in my experience that is. It is the rare thing that's Belgian instead of particularly Flemish or Walloon. On both sides of the language border we brew and enjoy doubles, triples, quadruples, blonds and ambers. The thing we are probably most famous for are the Trappist beers which come from both Flemish and Walloon abbeys. Only the brewing of red ales is predominantly done in West Flanders and of course the geuze (a type of sour ale) comes only from the Pajottenland near Brussels because it is made with a natural wild yeast that lives in the soil there and nowhere else in the world.

    I'm guessing wine isn't really a domestic product in Finland (I can't imagine grapes do very well in the cold climate there up north) and get a more special place in people's minds than in countries like for instance Italy where wine is found by the dozens and has a long tradition and history. I have the same when I eat some exotic food. I reckon for the people who it's from they don't really get that wow-feeling when they eat it.

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    Thanks Turkafinwe for taking the trouble to explain. The cultural aspects of Belgium are not very well-known here, I would dare say, and I was thinking if the French-speaking population prefers wine to a greater degree than the Flemish-speaking one.

    For us the great divide lies in between the east and the west and, to more detail, northeast and southwest. I grew up in the deep southwest and never really had a friend who would go out to get a bottle of vodka from the store for a boys' night. Mostly just beer and occasionally some wine. In the east and up north, hard liquor with some beers is the name of the game, but no wine. That is not just my prejudice. I read an article that specified how little vodka is sold in the southwest compared to the eastern and northern parts of the country. When I started accumulating acquaintances from those vodka regions, I learned that it is true.

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