This post is a part of the 2015 New Beer Every Day Beer Diary Challenge, #ottbeerdiary. Over the course of 2015, I will be trying a new beer every day. Please read the background in the link above, and enjoy reading about the most recently tasted beers below. If you’d like to join the challenge as well, let me know in the comments below, and be sure to check out Grown-up Travel Guide and his #grownupbeerdiary, where Andy Higgs came up with the diary format in use below. You can catch up on all of our posts as part of the challenge under the tag ottbeerdiary.
Day 275: October 2, 2015
Diary entry:
Relatively quiet day today on the meetings front. Only two on the agenda, both before noon, so I took the afternoon off so we could get on the road to Paris.
One work of advice…NEVER go ANYWHERE near Brussels on a Friday afternoon! Don’t take the R0 West. Don’t take the R0 East. Don’t try to go through town. STAY AWAY! Traffic nightmare on all fronts!
It took us under 90 minutes to get to the Brussels Ring. It took us over two hours to get from there to Waterloo!
AWFUL!
I should have just kept going towards the Kennedy Tunnel at Antwerp and through Ghent.
Next time.
All in all, it took around six and a half hours to get from Boxtel to our hotel near Disneyland Paris.
The Beer:
Name: Durboyse Blonde
Style: Belgian Pale Ale
Producer: Brasserie Lefebvre
Alcohol content: 6.3%
Bottle size: 0.33l
Purchased from: Local products shop in Durbuy, Belgium.
Durboyse Blonde by Brasserie Lefebvre. Decent fruity blonde. Not too sweet (though a little). Not too bitter. Local label of Floreffe Blonde for Durbuy, Belgium, the “smallest town in the world.” 6.3% abv.
