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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, […] 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 […] ABV: 6.5% Origin: Kobbegem, Vlaams-Brabant Website: http://www.mort-subite.be De Keersmaeker Mort Subite Oude Kriek This is an expanded review of a beer that featured as a fruit beer on the bottled beer review page in the August 2010 issue of BEER magazine, sent free every quarter to CAMRA members, who can also view […] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009. Beer sellers: Beermania ABV: 5.5% Origin: Èthe, Luxembourg, Wallonie Website: http://www.sainte-helene.be/ 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, […] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 2.5% Origin: Assebroek, West-Vlaanderen (since moved to Oudenaarde, Oost-Vlaanderen) Website: www.smisje.be "De Regenboog brews Mesopotamian beer: Archaeologists find recipe in Syrian song from 1800BC." An interesting attempt to recreate an authentic ancient beer made in collaboration with the brewing school of […] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 5.5% Origin: Beerzel, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen Website: www.thofbrouwerijke.be 't Hofbrouwerijke hofblues Hobby brewer Jef Goetelein dipped his toes into commercial brewing as a hirer of other brewers’ kit. In 2005, frustrated with this arrangement, he set up on his own “little farmyard […] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version first appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 5% Origin: Sint-Ulriks-Kapelle, Vlaams Brabant, Vlaanderen Brouwerij Girardin For the style this is easy drinking but top quality from one of the most respected lambic breweries, a cherry-red beer with a creamy, woody and tannic aroma rich and oily with […] |
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