Big Belgian Beer Breakfast
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Saturday, at 9am, location TBD, will be the second or third annual Big Belgian Beer Breakfast.
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Bring Your Own Big Belgian Beer. Please bring your own appropriate glassware.
Breakfast because it starts early in the morning. What do we mean by "Big Belgian Beer"?
Big: Big can mean large in size. A 750 mL bottle is big. A 6 L bottle is bigger. But big can also mean bold in flavor, heavy in body, rich in residual sugars, or high in alcohol.
Belgian: "Belgian" is more about the style of beer than the country of origin. For example: Abbey, Dubbel, Tripel, Bier de Garde, Bier de Mars, Flanders Red, Flemish Farmhouse Style, Lambic, Gueze Lambic, Fruit Lambic, Faro.
There are several companies in the US and Canada, and a couple in neighboring regions of France and the Netherlands that make exceptional beers in Belgian styles. These are perfectly acceptable.
There is also at least one beer that is made in Belgium that is not Belgian in style. If you think Stanley Kowalski would run through the streets of New Orleans demanding a real Belgian Beer, think again. That may be a fine beer to have as lunch, but we want something a bit more substantial for the most important drink of the day.
Most Belgian Beer has a cork instead of a cap, or in addition to a cap. Some non-Belgian styles have started doing that. If you bring a fantastically delicious beer that is not Belgian, you may be mocked. We'll probably still drink the beer. (If you bring any kind of homebrew, you will definitely be mocked, and we'll definitely drink the beer.)
If you're coming to Flipside from out of state, or have friends who are, have them contact Nobody@NobodobodoN.com for suggestions of Belgian Beers that are not available in Texas, in the name of improved variety.
Leave No Trace! Pack it in, pack it out. Beer bottles and glassware are not part of the natural environment, nor are they an artistic contribution to the effigy. Bring it back home with you. If you break any glass, you have to pick up every piece. We don't recommend eating broken glass.
In case you have a hard time with the obvious: This is not an "official" Flipside function anymore than you drinking at your camp is, regardless of what role any of the attendees might play in the event.
