Shout to pirateflynn !! He might like this thread
well, is all about local beer these days (except for Belgian beer, which is to beer what France is to wine)
I've met a few good beers when i visited Bruges with my husband (who comes from the French border, Lille), the thing that i love is that in Old Bruges, every restaurant has a brewery (as i recall), so i cannot name them.
Jump the pond, come to Quebec and Quebec city, and you have a huge French and Belgian communities, ready to show us their "savoir faire", and Quebequers have learn a few tricks as well, so here are some of the beauties of this corner: