by Kea 
In my old age I’ve become vain and paranoid. These manifest themselves in many different ways (like cutting out the 1 pound box of Cheeze-Its nights and being obsessively into step aerobics – to name a few)but one of my main weapons in metabolism warfare has been the (attempted) annihilation of beer from my diet.
I miss it a lot and to make things worse my boyfriend is a beer distributor and would probably brush…
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“Brouwerij” is Dutch, which to beer drinkers brings to mind Belgium. It’s pronounced pretty much the same as “brewery,” although in Dutch the ‘ij’ (which is considered a single letter) is sort of a little closer to sounding like “eye” than to “ee.”
If you just say “brewery” you’re close enough.