Champagne & Strong Belgian Beer

A good night out in Paris

Glittering in my mind’s eye on peculiar lonely nights, like smiles and flashing lights, are glasses of champagne and cans of strong Belgian beer. Their substance is something to love — not only the alcohol but the odd, wonderful-to-my-tongue flavors of them, apple and musk and skunk and black earth, hints of sour sausage casing, chalk and sometimes the …