While your local continental beer carnival might feel kinda exotic, you’re still drinking with the same losers, in the same city, with your same day-to-day hassles not too far away.

So you’ve always wanted to journey off to Belgium to experience the real deal but just couldn’t be arsed writing an itinerary? Fear not, the team at AskMen.com has taken all the work out of planning your own Belgian beer tour. So all you need to do is buy the funny, uh, whatever funny thing it is that the Belgians wear.

It’s a short, three-day excursion, possibly involves far more beer sighting than beer drinking, and has the kind of watertight schedule you’d expect from Clark Griswold. But it is a productive, wholesome, positive trip – much like the Belgian brewers themselves, according to these profiles:

Founded in 1988, Fantôme never set out to become a major brewery, but to deliver quality beers into the nearby countryside and to promote fraternity and goodwill among members of the local community.

Originally built in 1070, the Orval Abbey was the first to sell beers nationally in Belgium and, today, as with all Trappist breweries, the proceeds from beer sales go directly to financially support the monastery and other good causes in the area.

So perhaps it’s not the seedy, beer-fuelled romp some would prefer. But that’s why The Netherlands is right next door…

Fine Living: A Beer Tour Of Belgium [Ask Men]