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Your fanmail to Frank Boon arrives here. ABV: 5% Origin: Lembeek, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.boon.be Date: 7 September 2000 Another review from the archive written for the pioneering Oxford Bottled Beer Database (OBBD). I’ve left it uncorrected — so please read it in that historical spirit. This particular beer is something of a […] Rodenbach Grand Cru Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 6% Origin: Roeselare, Oost-Vlaanderen Website: www.palm.be Beer writers and experts tend to have different drinking habits from ordinary beer drinkers. To keep ourselves well informed and authoritative, we’re usually tasting beers we haven’t tried before, and find ourselves passing on the popular and familiar by. In […] Gueuze Girardin 1882 (Zwart etiket) Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 5% Origin: Sint-Ulriks-Kapelle, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.brouwerijgirardin.com Girardin is arguably the most consistently and rootedly traditional of all the lambic breweries. The others were either founded since the self conscious revivalism of the 1970s or, like Cantillon, heavily influenced by it – or at […] Zythos Bierfestival 2012 ABV: 6.5% Origin: Oudenaarde, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen Website: www.seef.be Roman / Antwerpse Brouw Compagnie Seef Bier The consolidation and transformation of the brewing industry and the beer market in the 20th century swept away numerous local and regional beer styles, with beers once ubiquitous in their own territories rapidly declining and […] Zythos Bierfestival 2012 ABV: 9% Origin: Baarle-Hertog, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen Website: www.dedochtervandekorenaar.be De Dochter van de Korenaar Peated Oak Aged Embrasse, Zythos Bierfestival, Leuven 2012 De Dochter van de Korenaar (‘the ear of corn’s daughter’, a poetic expression for beer) is a Belgian brewery, but only just. It was founded by a former home […] Zythos Bierfestival 2012 ABV: 5.5% Origin: Beersel, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.3fonteinen.be Brouwerij en stekerij 3 Fonteinen, Beersel, Vlaams-Brabant, België The simplest way to make an acidic young lambic palatable is to bung sugar in it, and in the past this was probably the most common way of drinking lambic in its heartland in […] Top Tastings 2011 (bottled Cuvée d’Oscar), Beer sellers: Abbaye des Saveurs ABV: 6.5% and 7.5% Origin: Lochristi, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen Website: craigallan.fr, www.proefbrouwerij.com Craig Allan Cuvée d'Oscar (brewed at Proef) These beers are produced in Belgian Flanders by a Scottish brewer based in Picardy, northern France, and are decidedly international at heart. Craig […] Beer sellers: mi orge mi houblon ABV: 9% Origin: Tintigny, Luxembourg, Wallonie Website: www.millevertus.be 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 […] Gueuzerie Tilquin; Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 6% Origin: Rebecq-Bierghes, Brabant-Wallonie, Wallonie Website: www.gueuzerietilquin.be 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, […] |
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