Category Archives: Belgian White (Witbier)
#226 – Floris Honey
Size: 330 ml ABV: 3 % I haven’t thus far had the most positive experiences with honey beers. The Barbar (#19) was remarkably average and didn’t even taste of honey, and the Le Pave de l’Ours (#117) was more akin … Continue reading →
Filed under 6, Belgian White (Witbier), Huyghe
Tagged as Barbar, Belgian beer, Dovetail, fermentation, Floris, Honey, Huyghe, Pave de L'Ours, Silenrieux
#187 – Blanche des Honnelles
Size: 330ml ABV: 6 % Blanche des Honnelles is a uniquely flavoured beer made at the Abbaye des Rocs brewery very close to the French border. It is so named after the rivers that flow at their most powerfully through … Continue reading →
Filed under 4, Abbaye des Rocs, Belgian White (Witbier)
Tagged as Abbaye, Abbaye des Rocs, barley, beer, Belgian, Blanche, Grande, Honnelles, Montignies-sur-Rocs, oats, Petite, Rocs, wheat
#176 – Brugs Witbier
Size: 250 ml ABV: 4.5 % Brugs Witbier, or Brugs Tarwebier as it is known locally, is a cloudy unfiltered wheat beer which is based on a traditional Brabant recipe. Although now mass produced by the Brasserie Union (Alken Maes), … Continue reading →
Filed under 6, Alken-Maes, Belgian White (Witbier)
Tagged as Alken Maes, beer, Belgian, Brugs Witbier, Charles the Bold, coriander, Count of Flanders, Duke of Burgundy, Edward VI, Golden Tree, Gouden Boom, lemon, Margaret of York, Middle Ages, orange peel, Pageant, Union
#158 – Vedett Extra White
Size: 330 ml ABV: 5 % Just one look at the Vedett website and you know exactly what you are up against. Here is a company which seemingly has recently employed a brand new marketing manager whose illustrious career history … Continue reading →
Filed under 4, Belgian White (Witbier), Duvel Moortgat, Polar Bear
Tagged as Ardennes, beer, Belgian, Cement truck, De Koninck, Duvel, Extra, gimmickry, Maredsous, Moortgat, Vedett, White
#100 – St. Bernardus Wit
Size: 330 ml ABV: 5.5 % Beer experts tend to say that if you want to try a beer that tastes like Hoegaarden (#81) used to then there is no better exponent than the St. Bernardus Wit. This comes as … Continue reading →
Filed under 8, Belgian White (Witbier), Brewers, St. Bernardus
Tagged as beer, Belgian, Celis, coriander, Flanders, Hoegaarden, malt, orange peel, Pierre, St. Bernardus, wheat, Wit, Witbier
#97 – Triverius
Size: 330 ml ABV: 6.8 % Believe it or not but Triverius was a beer first made in 2004 in homage to a famous man of medicine from the village of Nederbrakel. The occasion was to mark the 500th anniversary … Continue reading →
#81 – Hoegaarden
Size: 250 ml ABV: 4.9 % Everybody has heard of Hoegaarden – certainly since Interbrew exported it around the world. In terms of white/wheat beers there are probably none more famous. The beer gets it name from the town in … Continue reading →
