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Zythos Bierfestival 2010 Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 5% Origin: Beersel, Vlaams Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: http://www.oudbeersel.com Oud Beersel brouwerij en geuzestekerij Oud Beersel in the heart of Pajottenland’s lambic country was the brewery that unexpectedly came back. Originally named Vandervelden after the owning family, it closed its doors in 2002 when the last Vandervelden […] Zythos Bierfestival 2010 ABV: 5.5% Origin: Baarle-Hertog, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen Website: www.dedochtervandekorenaar.be De Dochter van de Korenaar Noblesse De Dochter van de Korenaar — the Ear of Grain’s Daughter — is one of the remote outposts of Belgian brewing, in boundary boggling Baarle-Hertog, a tiny and irregularly shaped enclave of Belgium — less than […] Pré-ZBF Festival 2010 ABV: 8% Origin: Woesten-Vleteren, West-Vlaanderen Website: http://struise.noordhoek.com De Struise Aardmonnik De Struise Brouwers, a beer firm that work mainly on the plant of the Deca brewery, are the enfants terribles of Belgian brewing, more appreciated by the international “extreme beer” crowd than within Belgium itself for their eccentric, often strong […] Pré-ZBF Festival 2010 ABV: 5.3% Origin: Heule, West-Vlaanderen Website: www.alvinne.be Picobrouwerij Alvinne The latest collaboration between the Alvinne “picobrewery” and beer writer, tour organiser and all-round personality Chris “Podge” Pollard is this beer intended primarily for the Chelmsford Beer Festival, a combination of Belgian flair and some decidedly local links to Podge’s Essex […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 4.8% Origin: Malle, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen Website: www.trappistwestmalle.be 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 […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 5% Origin: Wambeek, Vlaams Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.detroch.be De Troch Chapeau Lambic De Troch of Wambeek is one of the lambic breweries you really wish you could think more highly of. Its pedigree is impeccable: it’s a farmhouse brewery founded by Pieter de Troch in 1780 in the lambic […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 10% Origin: Roeselare, Oost Vlaanderen Website: www.rodenbach.be Rodenbach Vin de Céréale Rodenbach of Roeselare is a Belgian beer icon, one of the key breweries celebrated by Michael Jackson back in the 1980s when he first introduced the country’s remarkable beer culture to the wider world. It’s renowned then as […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 9 per cent Origin: Erpe-Mere, Oost Vlaanderen Website: www.glazentoren.be Glazen Toren Saison d'Erpe-Mere You’d expect something special from the “glass tower”, a relatively young micro tucked away in the hilly country of the so-called “Flemish Ardennes” — it was co-founded by beer writer and leading Belgian beer expert Jef […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 8% Origin: Esen, West Vlaanderen Website: www.dedollebrouwers.be De Dolle Brouwers Cosmos Porter This experimental brew divides opinion. I’ve spoken to several people who have hated it, and even its brewer, Kris Herteleer, seemed in two minds about it when serving it to the public at the 2009 Zythos beer […] First published in BEER December 2005 Origin: Lochristi, East Flanders, Belgium ABV: 7.5 per cent Dutch autumn bokbier must be one of the most underpublicised beer styles outside its home country: world beer surveys often don’t mention it all, or treat it as a footnote to German Bock. Yet it’s really a style in its […] |
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