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When my wife and daughter came home from their vacation in Sasebo last week (which included a visit to the Huis ten Bosch amusement park), they brought back a treat for me, an assortment of European beers.

Although I don’t drink much, I do like a good beer every once in a while. When it comes to beer, the Belgians have a pretty good sense of what’s good and what’s not, so my wife knows that I have developed a fondness for Belgian beer.

She also knows where I stand politically, which made her selection that much more ironic. Upon coming home from work at the end of a long and exhausting week, what man expects to be greeted with a tempting beer with such an antithetical label?

“If you want to drink the others,” she told me, “you have to drink this one first.” Do you think she’s trying to tell me something?

Check out the World Beers site for an interesting selection of imported beers available in Japan. (The site is in Japanese, of course.)