{"id":4987,"date":"2013-06-20T22:10:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T20:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/?p=4987"},"modified":"2013-12-05T16:30:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T14:30:05","slug":"belgian-beer-asparagus-cigars-vintage-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/startseite\/belgian-beer-asparagus-cigars-vintage-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgian Beer, Asparagus, Cigars & Vintage Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"nfcSummer has finally arrived, and it is hot, brutally hot.<\/span><\/p>\n

So natural refreshment is a bliss, and what better place to refresh than by the shore of the Rhine river.<\/span><\/p>\n

Met friends there for a long afternoon and evening of good conversations, dinner and cigars last Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then it was another Pizza and Booze Monday in the village with Andreas and again Hans.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was presented with a great selection of Belgian beers on my visit to meet Frank and Cliff in Lommel\/Belgium last year and it was time to drink them.<\/span><\/p>\n

What better occasion than 30+ C weather to share them with my friends.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, we managed 4 large bottles before we agreed that it was not really our taste.<\/span><\/p>\n

Too strong with up to 11% alc. content, too sweet, too overpowering on the palate. We compared it to dark, roasted wheaty bread. Certainly good and tasty, but we prefer the lighter, more refreshing type of southern German (Bavarian) beer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of the four bottles, the Omer was the one we liked most, precisely because it was a fresh blonde.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, I guess it’s back to Roseschorle …<\/span><\/p>\n

Then today Thursday we had the probably last asparagus of this season with a tender duck breast, washed down with a 2012 Gioconda Sicilian Merlot and finished off with a RyJ Nr 1 Tubo.<\/span><\/p>\n

And I thought I was in Havana, having this great vintage classic convertible Roadmaster parked outside …
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Life’s good.
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Nino<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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