Once a century and ignoring zeros and dashes, we have a 666 day. A number that originally seems to have been an oblique reference to the Roman Emperor Nero but lately has come to stand for the devil. So I figured there would be some wild links today, but mostly got this.Once a year also on this day is the anniversary of D-Day, the beginning of the Battle of Normandy. There was much more interesting reading on that subject. The speech by Patton was especially interesting. Any general today talking at one hundredth of that level would be sacked immediately in today's PC environment. They might get it up to one twentieth if cameras or recorders weren't rolling.
The natural choice for drinking today would have been Duvel, but I had a taste for Oude Gueuze. Sorry that link's in Flemish, but there are a few pictures on the webpage. Here's an article by Stephen Beaumont about lambic. He mentions Hanssens Artisanaal. I ran into Stephen at the Bock/Bok Beer Festival in Amsterdam in 2001.
I love Hanssens. Their lambics are very smooth, especially in the case of the Oude Gueuze because it is blended from beers matured for over three years.
We had an especially good time drinking Hanssens in a lambic specialty cafe in North Brussels. I would like to say we had a lost day there, but the cafe closed at 8 pm before we could even get confused.
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