Duvel at Benlux in Milwaukee

It's kind of ironic to order the best beer in the world while sitting in Milwaukee, the epicenter of America's beer production for decades, watching The Brewers on a big flat panel over the bar.  Sure, it's still a MillaCoorz town.

But there again, maybe where it's served is as important to the life of a city as where it's made... even if it costs about two nickels to make the stuff as compared to all the shipping and handling, brainwash mass marketing and promotion that goes into a glass of suds.  If enough Duvel were ordered in Milwaukee, maybe they'd make it here too (or say  somewhere like Cooperstown, NY...  wink), and maybe it would feel a little more like buying the best beer on Earth, and buying American at the same time. 

Jingoism can be it's own reward, yes?  So I say go Brewers!  Aren't we all kind of sick of seeing 3 baseball teams win every year anyway even in this post- Money Ball era?

The rooftop at Benlux, an extraordinary Belgian beer bar restaurant, is a great place to a lot of different beer, including a slew of Belgian, so get you down to the Milwaukee's historic 3rd District and show a little nationalism (not too much, please, I think we know where that leads).  See,  http://www.cafebenelux.com/

Here is their beer menu: http://admin.lowlandsgroup.com/public/documents/menus/cafebenelux_bierbook_july_2013.pdf

As for the particular beer-- let's face it folks, Duvel is the greatest beer on Earth, color, feathered froth, smell, flavor... it's all there.  I'm not even going to argue about it, it's a question of taste, and there is no accounting for it, no matter how much big data collecting beer rating and blogging goes on around these hopped art.