On 3/4/07 9:14 AM, "Jerome & Elizabeth Moos" <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
> While we're on that subject, I have two Groene Leeuw jerseys, one LS, one SS,
> but I still don't know the origin of the name. It was my impression that
> Weil's was an English ale, while Groene Leeuw is "Green Lion" in flemish. But
> what product was named "Green Lion"? Was this a brand of ale? Why would an
> English brewer give their ale a Flemish name? Or was Weil's Flemish rather
> than English?
Weil's is a Belgian beer, not English ...
Steven L. Sheffield SL,UT (drank a lot of Weil's when he lived in Belgium in the early 1980s)
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