Odds and Ends

Those of course, would be the odds and ends of my body that have been progressively freezing off. When the high for your lovely city has been hovering around 20 degrees (and that's being generous), you tend to redefine your notions of cold.

A while back, a couple of requests were made for a summary of great Belgian beers I enjoyed on my way to representing my country in the clink for a night. Here they are in all their glory (ratings subjectively assigned by my beer connoisseur buddy and roommate)
Tripel Karmeliet (10)
Orval (8)
Rochefort 10 (8)
St. Feuillien (8)
St. Bernardus
Malheur (7)
Waton Tripel (8)
Rodenbach (6) We weren't wild about this one for reasons since lost to history.
Hop-It (8)
Dominus (7)
Cuvees des Trolls (9)
Le Trappe Tripel (8)
Duvel
Kwak *These last two are probably some of the more common Belgian types and are somewhat excluded from the more elite of Belgian brews.

Finally, I would love it if some of you lovely readers would regress with me and indulge in some postal correspondence. Send me a line with your address and I will endeavor to write you post, and feel loved as my postbox is filled with things other than pizza fliers. My address here in Berlin is:

William Jacobson
Wrangelstrasse 71
Berlin, DE (Deutschland) 10997