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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 […] Gueuzerie Tilquin ABV: 4% Origin: Lembeek, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.gueuzerietilquin.be, www.boon.be Wooden former wine barrels at Gueuzerie Tilquin Meerts is something of a forgotten member of the lambic family, though a couple of centuries ago it was ubiquitous in the historic brewing region. It’s the spontaneously fermented equivalent of small beer, made with […] Gueuzerie Tilquin ABV: 5% Origin: Vlezenbeek, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.gueuzerietilquin.be, www.lindemans.be Brewhouse at Lindemans, Vlezenbeek The Lindeman family began brewing lambic as a sideline on their cereal farm at Vlezenbeek, just outside Brussels, in 1809, and only finally gave up farming to concentrate on beer in 1950. In the 1980s the brewery achieved […] Great British Beer Festival 2011 ABV: 6% Origin: Lembeek, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen (matured in Roma, Italy) Revelation Cat Craft Brewing Rome-based gyspy brewer Alex Liberati has been doing some strange stuff with unblended lambics from Boon and Girardin over the past few years. I wasn’t convinced by his single hop dry hopped lambics — […] Beer sellers: Cerveteca ABV: 5% Origin: Anderlecht, Brussel-Bruxelles, Belgium Website: www.cantillon.be Cantillon Lou Pepe Gueuze Cantillon, with its unforgivingly dry oude geuze, has a reputation as the most hypertraditional of the lambic breweries, but proprietors the Van Roy family have developed quite a repertoire of innovative variations on the traditional techniques. This special […] Toer de Geuze 2011, Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 6% Origin: Lembeek, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.boon.be Traditional lambic crocks and samples at Boon, Lembeek On very rare occasions I taste a beer that’s so extraordinary it sends my rating system off the scale, and this, sampled direct from one of the gigantic oak […] Toer de Geuze 2011 ABV: 5% Origin: Gooik, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.decam.be De Cam brewery and museum, Gooik De Cam is a blender rather than a brewery, buying in lambics from Boom, Girardin and Lindemans, so I’ve no idea where this beer was actually brewed, but it was matured for at least one […] Toer de Geuze 2011 ABV: 5.7% Origin: Lembeek/Beersel, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.oudbeersel.com Appropriately decorated window at Oud Beersel, Beersel Brewed at Boon in Lembeek to former Vandervelden brewery recipes, the Oud Beersel lambics are tanked to Beersel to undergo maturation and blending. I assume this one, served from a bag in a box […] Toer de Geuze 2011 ABV: 5.7% Origin: Wambeek, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.detroch.be Lambic straight from the cask at De Troch, Wambeek Much of De Troch’s lambic ends up in its sweetened fruit beers which, if this rather fine example is anything to go on, is a great shame. Part of the pleasure of […] |
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