Belgium is a wonderful country for beer. There are quite a few wonderful beers available for very cheap, which anyone over the age of 16 can enjoy. Liquor is reserved for those over 18, but wine and beer are available at 16. My favorite beer I consumed there was Blanche de Brugge, a wheat beer that was available almost everywhere. Laura, on the other hand, stuck to the fruit flavored lambics, enjoying the extremely common cherry flavored kriek as well as a rasberry flavored beer.
One of the nights we were in Brussels we went to a bar called Delirium. Delirium advertises something like 1000 beers, with around 40 varieties on tap. It was quite an experience.
The other notable drink in Brussels is the half and half, which supposedly started at a cafe called Cirio. We went there to try it, though it is now apparently available all over Brussels. The Story behind the drink is that one day a woman at the cafe ordered a champagne, but there was only half a glass left, so the waiter topped it off with white wine. The woman ended up enjoying the beverage, so it stuck. I can see why she enjoyed it. It was extremely good, and very relaxing on a hot summer afternoon.
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Coincidentally, one of the Scottish girls I met in Guatemala was raving about the Belgian cherry beers over lunch today, you should recommend them to Laura if she hasn't already tried it.
Ahh, I suppose I forgot to mention that kriek is that cherry flavored beer. post edited.
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