Category Archives: Haacht
#247 – Tongerlo Christmas
Size: 330 ml ABV: 6.5 % I have slowly been working my way through the Tongerlo collection; a fact made more noticeable by the recent re-marketing of the beers and adaptation of styles. I first tried the very average Tripel … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Abbey Beer, Belgian Ale, Christmas Beer, Haacht
Tagged as Belgian beer, Giselbert Castelre, Leffe, Norbertine
#246 – Mystic Limoen
Size: 250 ml ABV: 3.8 % I often feel small pangs of guilt when having to write the odd bad thing about a beer; I mean at the end of the day it’s just my opinion right? There is however, … Continue reading →
Filed under 4, Fruit Beer, Haacht
Tagged as Acesulfame, aspartame, Belgian beer, FDA, Sunett, Sweet-One
#137 – Tongerlo Dubbel Bruin
Size: 330 ml ABV: 6 % This is the second dabbling I have had with the beers of Tongerlo, my first stop being the Tongerlo Tripel Blonde (#30) which gave me a chance to introduce the Abbey which so elegantly … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Abbey Beer, Abbey Dubbel, Haacht
Tagged as Abbey, Augustine, beer, Belgian, blond, Bruin, Canon Regular, Cistercian, Dubbel, Grimbergen, monk, Norbertine, Premontre, St Norbert, Tongerlo, Trappist, Tripel, Xanten
#134 – Keizer Karel Rouge
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8.5 % We first met Charles Quint (Keizer Karel Blonde #39) 95 beers ago. That seems an age ago now, and many historical figures have come and gone since, but good old Charles always liked a … Continue reading →
#92 – Abbaye de Malonne Brune
Size: 330 ml ABV: 6.3 % There isn’t much more to be said about the Abbaye de Malonne which I feel I amply covered when introducing the blonde (#14). There is going to come a time when I run out … Continue reading →
#39 – Keizer Karel Blonde
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8.5 % If you studied 16th century history you may know Keizer Karel or Charles Quint by a different name – Emperor Charles V. His realm was so large at one point that it was popularly … Continue reading →
#30 – Tongerlo Tripel Blond
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8 % The date on the label of the Tongerlo beer says 1133. If I’m not mistaken that’s – er – 876 years of brewing beers? Apparently true. The monastic community of the Norbertine Abbey of … Continue reading →
Filed under 6, Abbey Beer, Abbey Tripel, Haacht
Tagged as 1133, Abbey Beer, Abbot, beer, Belgian, blond, Burchard, Germans, Haacht, Kamerijk, monk, Norbertine, Tongerlo, Tripel, Triple, Waltman, World War I
