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Beer sellers: Beermania ABV: 6.5% 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 placed to know what would work with [...] 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 July 2007 as part of a piece on French beer. For more French beers see previous post. ABV: 5.8 per cent Thiriez La Rouge Flamande Like most place names around Dunkirk, the name Esquelbecq is originally Dutch – it means “acorn brook”. The village once boasted five [...] ABV: 6.3% Du Bocq Gauloise Blonde 1001 Beers You Must Try Before You Die A full review of this beer is featured in the book 1001 Beers You Must Try Before You Die, published May 2010 by Cassell Illustrated. Buy the book from amazon.co.uk Read more about this beer at [...] A shorter version of this review was first published in BEER February 2010 as part of a piece about beers to taste with chocolate. ABV: 6% Rulles JeanChris Numéro 1 Chocolate may seem a curious entry on the long list of foods that go better with beer than wine, but the two have [...] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 4.8% Westmalle Extra The Cistercian Trappist Abdij Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van het Heilig Hart van Westmalle, on the main N12 road between Antwerpen and Turnhout in the Belgian Kempen, is home to arguably the most influential, and alongside Chimay the most commercially active, of the Trappist breweries. Its brace of regular beers, the [...] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 6.5% Binche / Belgoo Luppoo Historically, hop character hasn’t figured highly on the list of all the many and varied features of Belgian beers, which are better known for their richly malty, sweetish, sour and spicy flavours. According to lambic brewer Frank Boon, in the pre-war period high hop rates [...] Originally published in BEER February 2006. To read about more beers stocked by Morrisons, see previous post. ABV 6.5 per cent Koningshoeven La Trappe Blond In October 2005 the number of official Trappist breweries in the world rose from six to seven, with the only such [...] Originally published in BEER February 2006 ABV 5.5 per cent Du Bocq La Gauloise Ambrée In March 2004, when Yorkshire-based grocer Morrisons turned itself into the fourth largest supermarket chain in the UK by swallowing up rival Safeway and converting all its stores, the news was greeted with some alarm [...] Originally published in What’s Brewing July 2005 Origin: Villers-devant-Orval, Luxembourg province, Belgium Orval Orval is one of the world’s most unusual and distinctive ales as well as one of its finest. It’s one of the family of Belgian beers brewed under the supervision of Trappist monks, but even among this select [...] |
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