I absolutely love Belgian beer.
It's spoiled and soured and they call it a style.
If it was English ale and tasted like the lactobacillus-ridden swill that's considered a lambic in Belgium, the British brewery would fold from lack of customers. If it's not infected, it's oxidized. I also love their practice of using old and stale hops.
All the cute little stories about spiders and their webs in the old farmhouse breweries, the unique wild yeasts that makes their beers so sour (spoiled) in their open fermenters, and that fact that they have to blend half the crap to make it drinkable tells me that they're pulling the wool over the eyes of many, especially American beer geeks.
And after reading the original subject of this post...I wouldn't give them a penny of my beer money. I'll take an American craft beer with an overdose of some spicey Cascade or even a BudMillerCoors before I'd waste my time or money with these European morons and their products.