Category Archives: Alken-Maes
#217 – Grimbergen Tripel
Size: 330 ml ABV: 9 % Only beer #217 and it was with some relief that I reached the end of the Grimbergen range with the Tripel. I’m not saying that these beers are awful in anyway, but if ever … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Abbey Beer, Abbey Tripel, Alken-Maes, Phoenix
Tagged as Alken-Maes, Belgian beer, Brasserie Union, Carlsberg, Grimbergen, Kronenbourg, Leffe, Narnia, Phoenix, Tripel
#212 – Grimbergen Goud / Doree
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8 % Yep. Who would believe it? Another bloody Grimbergen. This time it’s the turn of the Grimbergen Goud or Doree, depending on your linguistic preference. If you still need a translation then you can call … Continue reading →
Filed under 5, Abbey Beer, Abbey Tripel, Alken-Maes, Phoenix
Tagged as AB/InBev, Abbey, Aldershot Town, Ardec Nec Consumitur, Belgian beer, Goud/Doree, Grimbergen, Phoenix
#205 – Grimbergen Cuvee de l’Ermitage
Size: 330 ml ABV: 7.5 % Another beer from the surprisingly extensive Grimbergen range, and following the recent review of the Optimo Bruno (#194), here follows another with a bold claim of greatness. One would fully expect that with the … Continue reading →
Filed under 6, Abbey Beer, Alken-Maes, Belgian Strong Ale, Phoenix
Tagged as Abbey, Alken-Maes, Armagnac, beer, Belgian, blonde, Brasserie, Brune, Bruno, Christmas, Cuvee, de l'Ermitage, Grimbergen, Hermitage, Optimo, Trappist, Union
#194 – Grimbergen Optimo Bruno
Size: 330 ml ABV: 10% This was the first beer I had tried from the Grimbergen range, outside of the supermarket popular Blonde (#8) and Dubbel (#9), and from all the hype around this I expected to be impressed – … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Abbey Beer, Abt/Quadrupel, Alken-Maes, Brewers, Phoenix
Tagged as Alken-Maes, beer, Belgian, Best Brown, blonde, Bruno, Chimay, Dubbel, Easter, Grimbergen, Maredsous, Optimo, Rochefort, St. Bernardus, T'Smisje, Trappistes, Westvleteren
#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
#135 – Hapkin
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8.5 % Hapkin may now be brewed by giant Alken-Maes, but it hasn’t always been this way. The Brouwerij Louwaege was formed in 1877 and lasted five generations until its premature closure in 2002. The 7500 … Continue reading →
Filed under 8, Alken-Maes, Belgian Strong Ale
Tagged as Abbey, Alken Maes, axe, Baldwin, beer, Belgian, Boudewijn, Count, Flanders, Hapkin, Kortemark, Lord, Louwaege, Robin Hood, Ter Duinen Cistercienzerplaters
#33 – Ciney Brune
Size: 250 ml ABV: 7 % Ciney is a monastery from the 16th Century .. no I am joking. Believe it or not I have trawled through the history of Ciney from the beginnings of beer drinking, and there seems … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Abbey Dubbel, Alken-Maes
Tagged as Alken, beer, Belgian, cattle market, church, Ciney, cows, guerre, Maes, Union, vache, War
#9 – Grimbergen Dubbel
Size: 330 ml ABV: 6.5 % In 2007 as previously mentioned (#8), Alken-Maes was a bit-part of the major deal which saw Heineken team up with Carlsberg to usurp British giant Scottish Courage. Heineken effectively then became the worlds second … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Abbey Beer, Abbey Dubbel, Alken-Maes, Phoenix
Tagged as AB/InBev, Alken-Maes, Carlsberg, Dubbel, Grimbergen, Heineken, Stella Artois
#8 – Grimbergen Blond
Size: 330 ml ABV: 6.7 % In 1128 St Norbert of Xanten built a majestic abbey for the eponymously named Norbertine canons of the time in a quiet place called Grimbergen. It is very unusual for an Abbey to have … Continue reading →
Filed under 6, Abbey Beer, Alken-Maes, Belgian Ale, Phoenix
Tagged as Abbey Beer, Alken-Maes, Belgian beer, Grimbergen, Heineken, Norbertine
#5 – Judas
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8.5 % Judas was first brewed in 1986, probably as a Golden Ale that could compete with the highly successful Duvel (#34) beer made by the Moortgat Brewery. The similarities in title, label and goblet are … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Alken-Maes, Belgian Strong Ale
Tagged as De Block, Duvel, Jesus, Judas, Lucifer, Satan, Stella Artois
