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Taybeh, is a small mostly christian Palestinian town near Rammalah.

There is a brewery since 1993.  Long story short: because of Israêli boycot(water-supply, supplies blocked...) production has decreased 80%, people unimployed, almost an end to bussiness.

Some NGO's here put up a structure to produce under licence the Taybeh beer in Belgium by a small familial brewery(Strubbe) and commercialise it.

Profits will be shared between Palestinians and the NGO's who will use their part to finance (existing)healthcare activities  in Palestina.                      

It will be available in some places in Brussels, but I'm very curious how a Palestinian beer, brewed in Belgium will taste.

 


The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)
by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Thu Nov 29th, 2007 at 03:30:36 PM EST
Dang, that's something to look out for. It took me a few weeks weeks to find Sven's prize winning Finnish Imperial Stout: Saw a bottle in Madrid, found one on sale in London a week later. (stunning). and the one that came second was damn fine too.

that said, I confess I ain't hopeful. things like this are like egyptian wine. we admire they made the effort, but ....

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Nov 29th, 2007 at 03:46:40 PM EST
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Mind you the best wine I ever tasted was made in Tehran. The grapes and conditions there are just fab. Illegal, of course, but some of the best of it came from a chateau that looked remarkably like the filtration and pump room of the typical diplomat's swimming pool.

I think you should try the Palestinian beer first - you never know.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Nov 29th, 2007 at 03:57:45 PM EST
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I think a good home vintner will make the best wine, cos they want to drink it. I've had some fab wine from down in sandanski market, whilst the commercial stuff is pretty damn ugly drinking.

But I confess that the further one gets from traditional beer countries, the worse my expectations. Palestine rates somewhere near mexico or spain in my mind. If it isn't actually repellent that will be a plus.  

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Nov 29th, 2007 at 04:08:35 PM EST
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