Good Beer Guide Belgium
This completely revised edition of Good Beer Guide Belgium has been four years in the making. So it should be no surprise that aside from the changes to the breweries, the beers and the café listings, which are all too numerous to count, its design, style and coverage have grown up a bit too.
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Breweries
Good Beer Guide Belgium tells you about every brewery in Belgium, for the first time rating the brewery’s overall production quality as well as every one of its regular products. It also tells you whether you can visit and when, or if there is somewhere nearby to try its beers.
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Beers
Good Beer Guide Belgium has a comprehensive, 28-page, easy-to-follow section on the sometimes complex brewing styles of Belgium, plus classic or up-and-coming examples of each. And it does not hold its punches on what it thinks of beers that have fruit syrups added to them.
Getting there
Good Beer Guide Belgium includes a completely independent guide to all the ways of getting between Belgium and the UK is included based on real experience, plus travel tips for travelers from further afield.
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Being there
Good Beer Guide Belgium lets you get your head around the train (see Belgian Rail Map), tram, bus and road systems before you set out, so as to plan your trip more realistically. And it tells you why it makes sense to consider the bicycle as the beer drinker’s best friend.
Tourism
As well as giving suggestions of small, usually family-run hotels to stay at and local tourist sites to see between beers, Good Beer Guide Belgium also gives details of two dozen museums related to beer and brewing, plus over thirty local festivals featuring beer.
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