The American website RateBeer (just like last year) crowned the Belgian Trappist Westvleteren 12 the best beer in the world. There are ten Belgian beers in the Top 50 (eleven last year). Rochefort 10 is number seven. Westvleteren 8 is number seventeen. Belgian restaurants and cafés also get good rates. One restaurant I like very much, called 'De Heeren van Liedekercke' in Denderleeuw, Oost-Vlaanderen, has been rated the best beer restaurant in the world! That's where I had my first Westvleteren 12 : in the restaurant you are allowed one strong and really very tasty Westvleteren 12 per person when you eat there, since it is not easy to come by. Flemish Fathers brew the bear and you are only allowed to buy one crate of beer per person at a time! Third best beer restaurant in the world is also a Belgian restaurant called 'De Bistronoom' at the Belgian coast, in Oostende. In the list of the best cafés in the world there are five Belgian ones.

Maybe you think this should not be written on a sports site, but that means you are not aware that eating is a sport for the Belgians!