Monthly Archives: July 2010
#119 – St. Feuillien Brune
Size: 330 ml ABV: 7.5 % I was having a rough day and I needed to get out of the office. I don’t tend to take lunchbreaks that often but if I ever do, then it has to be somewhere … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Abbey Beer, Abbey Dubbel, St. Feuillien
Tagged as beer, Belgian, Brune, Clerkenwell, cocoa, Crown, Dovetail, Gunmakers, kitsch, London, Lowlander, menu, St. Feuillien, Timeout
#118 – Kerelsbier Blond
Size: 250 ml ABV: 6.4 % The Kerelsbier Blond label doesn’t give much away, but if you dig a little deeper there is a bit of a story behind this fairly non-descript beer. If you know your Flemish, then the … Continue reading →
#117 – Pave de L’Ours
Size: 250 ml ABV: 8 % Pave de L’Ours – a remarkably splendid name for a beer, and one which loses much of its meaning in translation. The ‘pave of the bear’ means very little in English, but in French … Continue reading →
Filed under 3, Bear, Belgian Strong Ale, Silenrieux
Tagged as bear, beer, Belgian, fable, good intentions, Honey, Horie, L'Ours, La Fontaine, Lover of Gardens, Normandy, Pave, pavement, poet, Silenrieux, Toshiyuki, tragedy
#116 – Stella Artois
Size: 330 ml ABV: 5.2 % Despite Belgium’s reputation for craft beer, bottom-fermented lagers like Stella Artois still make up about 75% of Belgian beer production, although Stella Artois is only the second most popular beer – Jupiler still tops … Continue reading →
#115 – Joseph
Size: 250 ml ABV: 5.4 % Straight after Sara (#114) came Joseph – a kind of younger brother beer from Silenrieux. Where Sara is unusual in that it is made from buckwheat, the Joseph is made from spelt. Spelt is … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Fish, Silenrieux, Speciality Grain
Tagged as beer, Belgian, buckwheat, Epeautre, gluten, Joseph, Sara, Silenrieux, spelt, wheat
#114 – Sara Blonde
Size: 250 ml ABV: 6 % I have only just drunk the Sara Brune (#110), and so quickly onto the Sara Blonde, and a rare foray into the world of farming. It would be extremely churlish to drink another buckwheat … Continue reading →
#113 – Helleketelbier
Size: 330 ml ABV: 7 % I had just tried my first beer from De Bie, and as another one of their beers looked remarkably past its best before date, I thought it might be wise to try another. Where … Continue reading →
Filed under 4, Belgian Ale, Cat, De Bie
Tagged as bee, beer, Belgian, cauldron, De Bie, Hellekapelle, Helleketelbier, Hells Kettle, Orbie, St. Bernardus, Stef, Van Eecke, Waregem, Watou, witch
#112 – Hellekapelle
Size: 330 ml ABV: 5 % Hellekapelle translates into English as Hells Chapel, and the theme is well illustrated on the label – the design showing a witch on a broomstrick with her cat, flying over a graveyard and the … Continue reading →
#111 – Maredsous 8
Size: 330 ml ABV: 10 % A fair way back on my Odyssey I got to try the Maredsous Tripel 10 (#44), and touched a little upon the history of the wonderful Abbey hidden away in the Namur countryside. I … Continue reading →
#110 – Sara Brune
Size: 250 ml ABV: 6 % Silenrieux is a rare breed among breweries in Belgium, promoting a range of traditional beers that are made from the most natural of ingredients. Eric Bedoret started the brewery in 1995 while living on … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Fish, Silenrieux, Speciality Grain
Tagged as Ardennes, beer, Belgian, blonde, Brune, buckwheat, Couvin, Eric Bedoret, Joseph, Louvain, organic, Sara, Sarasin, Silenrieux, spelt
#109 – Pecheresse
Size: 250 ml ABV: 2.5 % Some people after a severe night on the tiles (of the Scrabble variety of course) take a glass of water to bed with them to cure the inevitable hangover. Belgian beer connoisseurs of course, … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Lambic - Fruit, Lindemans
Tagged as beer, Belgian, Clark Gable, Fruit, Joan Crawford, Lambic, Lindemans, peach, Peche, Pecheresse, sinner
#108 – Het Kapittel Dubbel
Size: 330 ml ABV: 7.5 % I started to outline the Het Kapittel beers right at the beginning of this journey when I tried the Het Kapittel Pater (#2). That seems like an age ago now, but I would like … Continue reading →
Filed under 8, Abbey Beer, Abbey Dubbel, Van Eecke
Tagged as Au Lion d'Or, beer, Belgian, brewery, Dubbel, Golden Lion, Gouden Leeuw, Het Kapittel, inn, Pater, Scrabble, Watou
