Belgian café voted world's best pub

The small, folksy café In de Verzekering tegen de Grote Dorst (In the Insurance against Great Thirst), located outside of Brussels in the village of Eizeringen in Lennik, Flemish Brabant, was selected as the best pub and the second best beer destination in the world, according to the leading international beer website RateBeer. On Sunday, the site announced its 2015 RateBeer Best Awards results, a list of the world's top-rated cafés, beers, brewers, beer restaurants, reviewers and retailers.

Seven Belgian addresses were among this year's top 50 beer destinations: In de Verzekering tegen de Grote Dorst (which is only open on Sundays from 10.00-13.30), the Antwerp café Kulminator, beer restaurant De Heeren van Liedekercke, Brussels café Chez Moeder Lambic Fontainas, Cantillon Brewery/Museum, Chez Moeder Lambic Saint-Gilles and 't Brugs Beertje café in Bruges.

In the category Best Beer Restaurant, Nüetnigenough and Le Bier Circus in Brussels were awarded gold medals, as were 3 Fonteinen in Beersel and Bierbrasserie Cambrinus in Bruges.