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Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version first appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 4.7% Origin: Breendonk, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen Website: www.vedett.be, www.duvelmoortgat.be Duvel Moortgat Vedett Extra White Previously Duvel Moortgat’s wheat beer offering was Steendonk, produced in partnership with Palm, but the partnership ended this year and this beer, DM’s very own replacement, came […] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version was first published on facebook January 2009. ABV: 7.3% Origin: Bavikhove, West-Vlaanderen Website: www.bavik.be Bavik Petrus Aged Pale Established in 1894 and now a sizeable family-owned independent, Bavik (sometimes known as De Brandenbere after the owning family) made its name with sour brown ales, some of which […] Featured as an ale to win lager drinkers in BEER February 2009. ABV: 8.5% Origin: Breendonk-Puurs, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen Website: www.duvel.be Duvel-Moortgat Duvel Rood Belgium is a rich source of golden ales often mistaken for lagers, but beers like Duvel- Moortgat Duvel, despite their delicate colour and palate, have the fruity complexity of ales. […] First published in BEER April 2008 as part of a piece on beer in Sainsbury’s. More Sainsbury’s beers in previous post. ABV: 8 per cent Origin: Buggenhout, East Flanders, Belgium Website www.bestbelgianspecialbeers.be Bosteels Tripel Karmeliet Flemish independent Bosteels, still in the hands of the same family that founded it in 1791, is best […] First published in BEER January 2008 as part of a piece about imperial stouts. ABV: 9% Origin: Esen, West-Vlaanderen Website: www.dedollebrouwers.be De Dolle Brouwers Special Extra Export Stout Imperial Stout was a souped-up 19th century development of London porter that found favour in Tsarist. A century later the sole surviving original brand from […] 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 Origin: Montignies-sur-Roc, Hainaut, Wallonie Website www.abbaye-des-rocs.com Abbaye des Rocs Spéciale Noël Belgium excels at producing strong bottle conditioned ales for laying down, including […] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 5% Origin: Sint-Ulriks-Kapelle, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.brouwerijgirardin.com Girardin Framboise This traditional lambic brewery in the heart of the Pajottenland, founded in 1882, is especially famed for its unfiltered black label gueuze. Its fruit beers are filtered but far […] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 3.5% Origin: Tourpes, Hainaut, Wallonie Website: www.brasserie-dupont.com 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 […] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post. Top Tastings 2008 ABV: 8% Origin: Diest, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.loterbol.be Café-brouwerij Loterbol One of a batch of newer microbreweries gradually bringing new techniques and flavours to the Belgian beer scene, Loterbol describes itself as a brewpub — café-brouwerij […] A shortened version of this piece appears in the book 1001 Beers You Must Try Before You Die (May 2010). ABV: 6% Origin: Pipaix, Hainaut, Wallonie Website: www.vapeur.com First brewed: 1785 Serving temperature: 8-10°C Vapeur Saison de Pipaix “Born in 1785 with the brewery”, says the publicity for this idiosyncratic speciality, though in […] |
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