Here I am in the land that is a temple to wine, and I really don't appreciate wine at all. I am a beer guy, especially the in-your-face IPAs of home. As far as I can tell, they don't have really hoppy beers here, the kind I like that feel as if a fistful of pine needles is being shoved up your nose.
But there are still some okay French beers. One that I usually default to, because it is readily available, is a beer from Alsace called 1664. But how do you order that if your French is awful? One thing I have learned definitively: nobody calls it un, six, six, quatre.
My working hypothesis is seize soixante-quatre (in other words, "sixteen sixty-four"). If I were more of a barfly, I would know for sure by now.
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