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LUXEMBOURG
The Grand Duchy may be overshadowed by the international ad campaigns of its European neighbors' legendary brewmeisters, but the Luxembourgeois and beer cognoscenti worldwide know better. As the centuries-old Luxembourg slogan touts, "Onse Be'er ass gudd."
The small country of 380,000 inhabitants consumes 116 liters of beer per person each year, although that's down somewhat from 128 liters per person from the 1970's. That level of consumption still places Luxembourg shoulder to shoulder with Germany and the United Kingdom as one of the highest beer drinking countries among the European Union members.
Total production of 600,000 hectoliters annually here, though, pales in comparison to that in France, Germany, and Belgium, where millions of hectoliters are made yearly.
Beer making in Europe is traced back at least 2,000 years; the core process has...