Kwak - pronounced nearer to 'kwok' or 'kwork' rather than 'Quack' - is the most eye-catching of Belgian beer s. Each Belgian beer has a unique glass out of which it must be served and Kwak has a round bottomed glass that resembles a ' yard of ale ' and which is held upright in a wooden stand - rather like a piece of old scientific apparatus. The story is that the beer was served to travellers on horseback and they rested the bowl in a stirrup, but fact and fiction often get blurred in Belgium, especially when it comes to beer. Whatever the origins, historic or a modern USP, the unwary often try to gulp the beer, failing to notice that the shape dictates that a torrent can pour out when the air reaches the bowl.The beer itself is a dark one - a ' dubbel ' in style.
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