The longer that I let this blog go without a post, the longer I feel that it will go without one. So I’ll start with something good: beer.
For those who don’t know me, I’m a bit of a foodie. Lately, I’ve been a bit infatuated with the fact that so many different flavors can be produced from four ingredients: water, barley, hops, yeast. Before I discovered Belgian beers, I never would have considered myself to be a “beer guy”. In fact, I had a very small selection of what I would even consider tolerable beer. That changed with my first taste of Duchesse de Bourgogne, a beverage unlike any other that I had ever tasted. Unfortunately, I didn’t have any of that in my fridge to share a photo with you, so I chose something that was new to me: Westmalle Dubbel.
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