Your determination to ignore beer even extends to travel and holiday offers. In the Review (1 February) a travel offer to visit Lille and Antwerp includes "dinner with wine" in Antwerp. In case you haven't heard, Antwerp is in Belgium, arguably the greatest brewing nation on the planet, with a vast portfolio of beers many of which can be enjoyed in Antwerp's bars and restaurants. Just a few metres from the central station, Bier Central is a spacious restaurant that stocks 300 Belgian beers and matches them with excellent food. The cafe De Pelgrim is attached to the city's major brewery, De Koninck, and also matches beer with food, including a range of Belgian cheeses. To recommend "wine with dinner" in Antwerp insults the locals. When the Guardian announced a Masterclass on how to become a micro-brewer, the event was sold out within days. Pardon the pun, but there's a thirst for beer knowledge among your readers and it's time you reflected this in your pages.
Roger Protz
St Albans, Hertfordshire
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