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From the archive: first published in the Oxford Bottled Beer Database February 2001 ABV: 7.5% Saint-Monon Brune I know little about this brewery except that it’s in wooded country in the Ardennes, in the Belgian province of Luxembourg [in the village of Ambly in the commune of Nassogne] – [...] From the archive: first published in the Oxford Bottled Beer Database September 2000 ABV: 8% Prignon Fantôme A cult following attends this tiny farmhouse brewery in the Belgian province of Luxembourg, which looks like a tourist brochure study in rurality: it has even inspired a ‘Confrèrie’ who dress up [...] Beer sellers: mi orge mi houblon ABV: 9% Millevertus La mère vertus This interesting and very small brewery from rural Wallonia was launched in Toernich in 2006 by an ex-banker with the aid of a retirement bonus. It’s since done well enough to expand in July 2011 to a new and better site in [...] Gueuzerie Tilquin ABV: 6% Tilquin Gueuze à l'ancienne 2011, à la main de M Tilquin soi-même. This is the first release of new lambic blender Tilquin’s Oude Geuze, or Gueuze à l’ancienne as the Wallonian-based enterprise prefers to label it. A little controversially, the oldest component lambic in it is only two summers old, [...] Beer sellers: Beermania ABV: 8% 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 a garage in the village of [...] Beer sellers: Beermania ABV: 7.5% 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 was murdered by bandits — allegedly his decapitated head [...] Beer sellers: Beers of Europe ABV: 8.5% 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 must have seemed unthinkable back in 1982 when [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 5.5% Sainte Hélène La Djean d'Mady Founded in 1999 by home brewer Eddy Pourtois, who named it after a street he walked down when working as a postman, Ste-Hélène, originally in Virton, has contributed to the emerging excitement of the microbrewing [...] First published in BEER December 2007 as part of a piece about strong beers for the festive season. For more strong festive beers see previous post. ABV: 9 per cent Abbaye des Rocs Spéciale Noël Belgium excels at producing strong bottle conditioned ales for laying down, including seasonal specials that are well worth keeping [...] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 3.5% Dupont Biolégère Dupont, founded in 1844, is the highest regarded of the traditional farmhouse saison breweries of Hainaut though its talents stretch far beyond the traditional parameters of this sturdy, rustic style. There are several organic beers, including this [...] |
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