Investigating the entire spectrum so you don't have to:

I forgot to mention that when my parents were here and they went to the grocery store, they brought back a 1-liter bottle of Delhaize brown table beer. We tried it one evening before going out to eat somewhere, and the "beer" bore more resemblance to Diet Coke than to other beers I had tasted: artificially colored and sweetened (I forget with what, perhaps sorbitol), fakey-feeling carbonation, and a wimpy 1.5% alcohol. It's amazing to me that in a country like Belgium such a product could get away with that type of trickery.