The golf round planned for one of Belgium’s finest courses, Royal
Zoute in Knokke-Heist, fell through. The reason? The group I was
with lingered unduly at lunch at a restaurant named after the hop
plant, Hommelhof in Watou, following a tour of Brewery Van Eecke.
So it goes in Belgium, where beer and food trump golf. I never did
see a course on a recent trip to Flanders, but toured five
breweries and ate numerous meals cooked with beer or pa...
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