Kwak
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Kwak - pronounced nearer to 'kwok' or 'kwork' rather than 'Quack' - is the brand name of a Belgian beer, named after its original brewer Pauwel Kwak who first made it in 1791. It is now made in the family-owned Brewery Bosteels in Buggenhout, Belgium.
The glass is the most eye-catching of Belgian beer glasses. 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.