Beer menu offers 2,500 ways of getting drunk

June 26, 2009 5:13 PM

If you have a problem deciding what to order at the bar, never go to Delirium Cafe in Brussels, they serve over 2,400 different beers.

The bar set the world record for the most varieties of beer commercially available, back in 2004 (with 2004 beers) - but since then they have kept adding to their selection.

Now they have close to 2,500 beers in stock, and while many come from Belgium, over 75 different countries are represented in their cellars, including offerings from unlikely beer producers like Russia and Sri Lanka.

The beer menu is over 200 pages long and ranges from lagers to fruit beers and traditional Belgian Trappist ales ... it also make for a more interesting read than most celebrity autobiographies.

A spokesperson for the bar said their giant beer menu has become such an attraction several go "missing" to light-fingered tourists each week.

He added that staff have to undergo five weeks of training - to learn where each of the beer are in the rabbit-warren of chilled storage rooms and how to pour each type - before they are allowed on the bar.

As many of the beers come in specific glasses, staff also have to remember not only which type each drink is served in, but then find them from the hundreds hanging over the bar.

Remember, if you go there don't let your wife ask for the wine list, you will get a strange look from the barman.