This photo is the duplicate Beir drawer. These are extras, I just left them in the drawer. I couldn't take them I couldn't drink them, all. I only needed one beer but sometimes I was forced to buy many beers, to get the one I needed. In my office we had a big file cabinet drawer, I put the beer duplicates in there. It was a potpourri drawer of exotic beer.

Europe has Pubs that were serving beer when America was covered with Buffalo herds 900 hundred years ago. We're talking the middle ages. The Pub Zum Riesen in Germany dates back to at least 1150. Other notable mentions are the Brazen Head Pub in Ireland, believed to be from the 12th century, and the Hofbräuhaus in Munich, established in 1589. The two big beers in Stuttgart in 1980 were Hofbrau and Dinkel Acker.

I wanted to be the first ever to gather up one beer from all 29 NATO Member countries. This had never been done before that anybody knew of. It took me months I went hunting all over Brussels. Since we were right near the French border I assumed a French beer would be easy to locate. I couldn’t find one anywhere! So I drove to France. It was a wonderful mission to have.

In the Kitchen slash meeting room I setup a gauntlet. In front of each beer was a shot glass. You had to go down the row and do one shot from each country. If you made it you are officially certified. A typical Belgium Beer starts at 6% alcohol some of those beers were over 10 percent so you were feeling it after 29 shots. Do it twice and you can speak Dutch, and French too.

NSHQ Mons Belgium 2017
SHAPE

I been tryin to get to SHAPE for 20 years. One day SOCOM Admin called up and asked if I want to go to Belguim. What? Are you kidding me. Half that group didn't even want to go how lame, I couldn't beleive it. They were ORDERED to go. I said you don't need to order me to go to Belguim and sample the finest beers on the planet.

Here is a video of friends that were imported all the way from the USA to participate in the Sampling of Belgium Beers on the way to Castles that are on the road to Amsterdam -
Sampling Belgium Beer in Belgium and Berlin and Prague and France too

The Dubuisson Brewery, founded in 1769 in Pipaix, Belgium, initially sold beer only to local workers and residents. In 1933, the brewery created the Bush beer to compete with strong English beers, and it has since become known for producing some of the strongest beers in Belgium, including the Amber Bush with an alcohol content of up to 16%.

The Bush brewery, founded in 1769 in Pipaix, Belgium, was initially a farm brewery that began selling beer to local workers. It survived the Napoleonic era and both World Wars by continuing operations, with the brewery acting as a hospital during World War I and maintaining its original brewing equipment during World War II, which helped it retain production capabilities despite the challenges.

BELGIUM HAS SIX OF THE THIRTEEN TRAPPIST BREWERIES IN THE WORLD

I was at a Pub in Brunssen that had 10 of the thirteen Trappist Beers. I tried to do all ten. I couldn't do it. You're speakin' fluent German after six O them. I don't remember which ones I had, I should have wrote it down. I was lucky just to make it back to the room. I don't even photos of that evening.

Westvleteren Brewery (in Dutch: Brouwerij Westvleteren) is a brewery founded in 1838 at the Trappist Abbey of Saint Sixtus in Vleteren, Belgium. The brewery brews three traditional Trappist beers in small quantities to support the operations and philanthropic causes of the abbey. The brewery is referred to by several names in Dutch and English, including Westvleteren Brewery and the Saint-Sixtus Abbey brewery.

The Saint-Sixtus Abbey was founded in 1831 by Trappist monks from the abbey at Mont des Cats in France. Records show that a small volume of beer was brewed at the abbey in 1838 and in 1839 the abbey received a brewing license from King Leopold I. In 1850, a group of monks left Saint-Sixtus abbey and founded Scourmont Abbey, which also brews a Trappist beer under the brand name Chimay.

The brewery continued to operate during both World Wars albeit at a reduced capacity. In World War I the abbey acted as a hospital for allied troops and in World War II the area was occupied by German forces[citation needed]. During this time it was the only Trappist brewery to retain its original copper brewing vessels, with materials requisitioned from other breweries by German occupation forces. Beer was only served to guests at the abbey until 1931, after which its beer was sold to the general public. Between 1946 and 1992, the St. Bernardus Brewery in Watou was granted a license to brew beer under the St. Sixtus name. Today, St. Bernardus brews beers of similar styles but under their brand name. In 1992, the brewery was modernized.

Brewing operations are carried out by the monks from the abbey, with a small team of secular workers for manual labour tasks. Of the 26 monks that reside at the abbey, five run the brewery, with an additional five who assist during bottling.