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First published in Beers of the World June 2008 Beermania, Brussel-Bruxelles Browse the impressive framed collection of international press coverage on display at Beermania and you’ll find that most journalists who visit Brussels’ best specialist beer retailer write at least as much about the proprietor as his shop. Not surprisingly, since Nasser […] Beer sellers: Beermania ABV: 8% Origin: Blaugies-Dour, Hainaut, Wallonie Blaugies La Moneuse Though the centre of gravity of Belgian speciality brewing is skewed towards the Dutch-speaking north, some of the most interesting and rustic Belgian beers come from small rural breweries in the French-speaking south of the country. Consider Blaugies, a brewery in […] Beer sellers: Beermania ABV: 7.5% Origin: Purnode, Hainaut, Wallonie Website: www.st-feuillien.com, www.bocq.be Du Bocq St Feuillien Brune Feuillien or Foillan was an Irish evangelist who, like numerous others, took up the viable 7th century lifestyle choice of wandering Europe preaching and setting up monasteries. Shortly after founding one at Fosse-la-Ville near Nivelles he […] Beer sellers: Beermania ABV: 6.5% Origin: Ertvelde, Oost-Vlaanderen Website: www.beermania.be/meaculpa, www.vansteenberge.com Van Steenberge Beermania Mea Culpa Nasser Eftekhari had been tasting, discussing and selling specialist Belgian beer in his comprehensive Beermania beer shop in Brussels for over 20 years when he commissioned his first own label brand in 2007. He was therefore well […] Beer sellers: Beermania ABV: 6% Origin: Beersel, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.3fonteinen.be 3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek Traditional spontaneously fermented lambic beer doesn’t reach the consumer without being subjected to additional processes of maturation, blending and/or steeping with fruit to make it palatable. Though today’s better known lambic breweries generally carry out such processes themselves, […] First published in Beers of the World April 2008 Beers of Europe The UK’s biggest range of international beers, comprising over 1,700 lines, can be found at a shop and warehouse in an industrial unit on the unpromisingly named Garage Lane, Setchey, just off the A10 on the rural southern outskirts of Kings […] Weltenburger Kloster Asam Bock Beer sellers: Beers of Europe ABV: 6.9% Origin: Kelheim, Bayern, Germany Website: www.weltenburger.de The Low Countries aren’t the only part of the world where monks mix with mash tuns: the German-speaking countries too have their brewing brothers, or at least breweries located in working monastery premises. […] Beer sellers: Beers of Europe ABV: 6.5% Origin: Berkel-Enschot, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands Website: www.latrappe.nl Koningshoeven La Trappe Dubbel The only official Trappist brewery outside Belgium is operated by the secular Bavaria brewery in partnership with the brothers of the Abdij Onze Lieve Vrouw van Koningshoeven near Tilburg — for more background see the review […] Beer sellers: Beers of Europe ABV: 4.7% Origin: České Budějovice, Jihočeský kraj, Czech Republic Website: www.budvar.cz, www.budweiserbudvar.co.uk Budějovický Budvar tmavý ležák / Dark Lager Alongside Plzeňský Prazdroj (Pilsner Urquell), Budvar was already a famous Czech name in international beer circles before the Velvet Revolution, thanks in part to the international currency of the […] Beer sellers: Beers of Europe ABV: 8.5% Origin: Achouffe, Luxembourg, Wallonie Website: www.achouffe.be Achouffe La Chouffe and Mc Chouffe Today the Achouffe brewery is one of the most internationally familiar of Belgian micros, with its cheerful trademark “chouffes” (gnomes) grinning out from beer store shelves in more than 20 countries. All this […] |
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