The Huyghe Brewery in Melle, Belgium is no stranger to beer aficionados, but it also knows how to catch the attention of casual pint drinkers with its attention-grabbing, somewhat frightening product names.
Not only will the names knock you out – Delirium Tremens and La Guillotine – but so will the beers themselves; both carry a punch of between 8.5 and 10 percent alcohol, or double what most American beers contain.
They don’t taste bad either. Delirium Tremens was named “Best Beer in the World” at the 1998 World Beer Championships.
You can even use them in your cooking. Here is a recipe for fillet of wolf fish with leek, courgette, mild curry and La Guillotine.
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Allow me to digress a bit: Several years ago, 1998 to be precise, I was the lowest man on the Sports Illustrated totem pole. I was a suggestion guy. A suggestion guy does what the title implies; he sends in suggestions to the news bureau which, if accepted, are then handed to a staff reporter to do a write-up. Everyone from the SI doorman on up has more editorial sway than the suggestion guy.
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The Federal Reserve’s policy of freezing interest rates at zero began in December 2008, after Barack Obama was elected president but before he was sworn in.
This week Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke repeated his oft-heard mantra of keeping interest rates at zero for an “extended period”.
That period, 30 months thus far, or roughly two-thirds of Barack Obama’s presidency, seems likely to be extended much further. Thus the probability appears ever stronger that, at least for the first half of his administration, Barack Obama will not have seen an interest rate as leader of the free world.
Kester Eddy, the longtime Budapest correspondent for The Financial Times, blogged recently about the lack of foreign language proficiency in Hungary, especially in English.
The dearth of Anglo-speaking acumen in Budapest has in turn had a deleterious impact on Hungary’s ability to lure foreign investment, Eddy’s post implies.
One of the reasons he cited was the steady “TV diet of dubbed films” that are beamed nightly into Hungarian households.
He goes on to mention that Hungarians “ are taught in school that their translator of Shakespeare actually produced a better version of Hamlet than the bard from Stratford – and many [mainly monoglots] believe it.”
I would add that many Hungarians have told me that Andras Kern, the actor who voices for Woody Allen in films, is superior to the original.
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As anyone who has traveled to Central Europe knows, pork is king, at least on the dining room table. It is not uncommon, in fact quite the contrary, for pork entrees on restaurant menus in Budapest, Warsaw and Prague to greatly exceed beef, poultry and fish dishes. And families in small towns and villages still gather for annual — and sometimes more frequent — pig killings.
Thus it should come as no surprise that a tipster of ours in a sizeable city in Mitteleuropa told us that when applying for a position (that had nothing to do with design work) at a well-known company one of the tasks he was asked to perform — along with a half-dozen other applicants assembled in a room — was to draw a pig.
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