Monthly Archives: January 2010
#77 – Hopus
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8.5 % Hopus is a beer that has everything to do with hops. Many breweries attempt to offer a varied range of beer styles, and it is common nowadays to include highly hopped beers in that … Continue reading →
#76 – Sloeber
Size: 330 ml ABV: 7.5 % You could at the end of a long evening on the Belgians easily mistakenly pick up a Sloeber, thinking you were going for a Duvel (#34). The colours of the labels are fairly similar, … Continue reading →
#75 – Hercule Stout
Size: 330 ml ABV: 9 % Stout. It doesn’t sound quintessentially Belgian, although the Brasserie Ellezelloise actually define the beer as ‘Belgian Stout’, and there certainly aren’t many of them. I’ll save these discussions for later as there are plenty … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Ellezelloise, Imperial Stout
Tagged as Agatha Christie, Ardennes, beer, Belgian, Big Four, Ellezelloise, Guinness, Hercule, Imperial, orphan, Philippe Gerard, Poirot, Spa, spruce, Stout, swing top, Taken in the Flood, TinTin
#74 – Agrumbocq
Size: 250 ml ABV: 3.1 % DuBocq announced their newest beer with the following – “After the Applebocq and the Redbocq, the Brasserie du Bocq is pleased to announce the birth of the Agrumbocq”. I wonder if the Director of … Continue reading →
Filed under 4, Du Bocq, Fruit Beer
Tagged as Agrumbocq, Air Bud, Applebocq, Blanche de Namur, Du Bocq, fields, grapefruit, lime, mandarin, Per Agrum Ad Sacrum, Redbocq, Schweppes, soccer, soil, sport, Tim Webb
#73 – Pater Lieven Blonde
Size: 330 ml ABV: 6.5 % We have already met the Father of Lieven back in the late teens (#18), and this beer is the second toe dipped in the same range from the Van den Bossche stable. It is … Continue reading →
Filed under 6, Belgian Ale, Van den Bossche
Tagged as Ardennes, Arthur, beer, Belgian, blonde, Bruno, chocolates, Emmanuel, Ignace, Lieven, Mark, Pater, Sint-Lievens-Esse, Van den Bossche, Willy
#72 – Gordon’s Highland Scotch Ale
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8.5 % I was fairly uneasy talking about this beer as part of the Belgian Beer Odyssey. The commercial description says everything about how un-Belgian this beer is – “Gordon Scotch Ale was born in the … Continue reading →
Filed under 6, Brewers, John Martin, Scotch Ale
Tagged as ale, Antwerp, Finest, Gordon, Highland, IPA, John Martin, Lowlander, McEwans Special Export, Pale Ale, Scotch, tartan, thistle, TinTin, whisky
#71 – Saison Dupont
Size: 330 ml ABV: 6.5 % I spent the evening in the Lowlander near Fenchurch Street (now sadly closed) in London for a spot of dinner and took the opportunity to get my hands on another couple of beers that … Continue reading →
#70 – Adelardus Trudoabdijbier Bruin
Size: 330 ml ABV: 7 % The Adelardus Trudoabdijbier Bruin is a bit of a mouthful, and is yet another example of a beer linked to an abbey – this time the remainder of what is left of the Abbey … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Abbey Beer, Abbey Dubbel, Kerkom
Tagged as Abbey, Adelardus, beer, Belgian, Benedictine, Bishop, Bruin, Brune, church, French Revolution, Gale, Kerkom, Limburg, Metz, replica, St Trudo, sweet, tower, Trudoabdijbier
#69 – Saint-Martin Blonde
Size: 330 ml ABV: 7 % This is another beer that looks like a supermarket beer from the label. In Tesco in England I once tried a stubby bottle of some similarly titled beer and it tasted of baked beans. … Continue reading →
Filed under 5, Abbey Beer, Belgian Ale, Brunehaut
Tagged as Abbaye, beer, Belgian, Bishop, Brunehaut, French Revolution, Hotel de Ville, plague, Radbod, St Martin, Tournai
#68 – Antiek Super 8 Blonde
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8 % Deca is a fairly distinctive brewery in that it rarely brews its own beers nowadays. The facilities in the rurality of Woesten-Vleteren are regularly used but only by others. You might call it more … Continue reading →
#67 – Abbaye des Rocs Brune
Size: 330 ml ABV: 9 % The Abbaye des Rocs Brewery has a big name these days, especially in the USA, however in reality it is just a small farm in a picturesque little village in the heart of the … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Abbaye des Rocs, Abbey Beer, Belgian Strong Ale
Tagged as Abbaye, Abbey, beer, Belgian, Blaugies, cave, church, des Rocs, French Revolution, Haut, Highlands, Montignies, National Park, Pearl, ruin, sediment, watermill
