Can Cantillon be found in Germany?

Does he have a car? Brussels is not that far from Ramstein. At least from the US distance perspective.

 

So you think it is a beautiful, culturally rich area with wonderful people? hmmm most Germans seem to have the ignorant idea that Belgian beer is poison.

cheers

 

Yes, I do. I also think their food and drink has to be approached with extreme caution.

 

Oooh...gotta speak up for the quality of Belgian food. I find it a (very) close second in Europe, only to France. A nice medium-rare filet steak with peppercorn sauce and a Rodenbach to drink alongside. Yum....

 

Mussels , Pommes Frites and a Duvel: YUM!

I have that several times in Brussels and I was happy as a clam (or quahog as a tribute to Stahl’s lovely wife).

Cheers!

 

It's always an American and he's always look on for Cantillon.

 

Which is why I gotta give these young pups a hard time... they deserve it.

...but I gotta say, I was asked in the 80s with a completely straight face by a German if I knew JR Ewing... I'm originally from Dallas, but that took the cake...
...and a German student of mine told me that once at a home stay at an American HS she was asked if there are cars in Germany. The answer was... heard of BMW, Mercedes, VW? Yeah, was the answer, those aren't American?
So no country has a monopoly on ignorance, but it's fun making fun of them.

 

I thought we were supposed to take it easy on and have understanding for these adolescent approaches to good beer?

 

Ah, he's never had it before and his buddy will be stationed not too far from the border. Give him a break!

 

Don't want to single him out...but I would pay good money to un-see everything I have read/witnessed about rare beers, one-offs, and limited releases. Unfortunately that's all but impossible if you want to take part in any aspect of "craft" beer these days.

 

I hear you. Cantillon, though, at least with many of their beers, is not really that rare or limited, it's just hard to get in America (and Germany). It's not like OP was asking for Blaeber (sp?) or what have you, he was just looking for anything.

So when Ami's have friends in Europe they put out the feelers for a beer they might not otherwise have a chance to get, is that so wrong?

 

Never said it was wrong. Matter of fact, it seems to be an integral part of U.S. "craft culture."

 

“it's just hard to get in America”. I have read in the past that Cantillon sells more of their beer in the US then is consumed in Belgium. The ‘challenge’ is that the US is just too large (from a Cantillon production perspective) and there are tons of people who want to drink this wonderful beer. I had the chance to drink two small-ish snifters of Cantillon Kriek at a local beer bar last weekend (it was available on draft). There is no doubt that Cantillon makes absolutely wonderful beer and that there are many, many, many US craft beer drinkers who desire to drink this beer. The problem in a nutshell is that Cantillon makes outstanding beer and there is more demand than supply for their beers.

I personally do not see an ‘easy’ solution to this issue. I have never been to the Cantillon brewery but I suspect there is no ready solution to up the production there. On the other side of the equation, I can’t envision that there will ever be a decrease in demand for Cantillon beers because they are of OUTSTANDING quality.

Cheers!

 

My wife and I were in Berlin this year and as a joke swore we we're gonna ask the tour instructor where ever we went "was ****** ever here?" I mean it could have been the Berlin Wall and we were gonna ask

 

My solution has been to piss off the geeks who hold such "outstanding" beers ransom to such a degree that they will never seek out my favorites purely on principle.

 

Seriously, though: trading/mailing beer is illegal. Crack down on this the way eBay sales were cracked down on. That way the folks who snatch up multiple allotments of these beers only to hype them by posting "latest haul," "my cellar," and "what [whale] are you drinking now" beer "****" pics on sites like this lose a big part of their platform. Then, hopefully, people will begin to focus more on all the good beer available to them locally -- which isn't hard at all in the current climate most anywhere in the world.

EDIT: unfortunately, that ship has, in all likelihood, already sailed (at least in the U.S.). In short, that scene (trading) has killed the old scene (traveling).

 

Trading takes less time, $$$, and commitment than travel. With the average age of most BAs, they are more lokely to trade. Heck, I didn't have a passport until I was 37, and that was for a Business trip to Germany.

 

How'd that work out ?

 

I read that complaint a lot even here to which I always reply, if you don't like what the locals do, don't try to change the locals, start home brewing.

 

Yeah, exactly what I was thinking. Rare is the event that could rival the indelible scar left by ****** on Germany and you want to bring it up over and over. Even as a "joke" ... and Americans wonder why they are so maligned around the world.