Category Archives: Huyghe
#242 – St Idesbald Blond
Size: 330 ml ABV: 6.5 % One of the highlights of drinking a thousand Belgian beers is the opportunity to tell a good story. I’ve already come across a number of Saints on my venerable journey thus far and I’m … Continue reading →
#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
#201 – Artevelde Grand Cru
Size: 330 ml ABV: 7.3 % Jacob van Artevelde. He was so good the brewers at Huyghe named him twice. The original Artevelde (#144) was first marketed on the 5th July 1985, and then in 1987 the brewery decided to … Continue reading →
#166 – Floris Ninkeberry
Size: 330 ml ABV: 3.6 % Perhaps only the makers or marketeers of Floris Ninkeberry really know why this beer is thus called. This was the first time I had ever tried a fruit beer from the colourful Floris range, … Continue reading →
Filed under 5, Fruit Beer, Huyghe
Tagged as Aikaterine, Apricot, beer, Belgian, Dovetail, Floris, Fruit, Hecate, Huyghe, Katateino, Mango, Ninke, Ninkeberry, Passion Fruit, peach, pure, wheat
#144 – Artevelde
Size: 250 ml ABV: 5.7 % As I opened this impressive looking beer on a quiet night indoors I didn’t give a great deal of thought to who it was named after. Once though I had unfortunately drunk … Continue reading →
Filed under 4, Belgian Ale, Huyghe
Tagged as Artevelde, beer, Belgian, Bruges, Captain General, Count of Flanders, Ghent, Hundred Years War, Huyghe, Jacob van Artevelde, Louis, Sexy Rubbel Lager, Three Member Alliance, Ypres
#125 – Campus
Size: 330 ml ABV: 7 % Campus is an orphan beer. This is a term I tend to use for those beers who have survived on in the new world despite losing their parental home. The foster parents in this … Continue reading →
Filed under 6, Belgian Strong Ale, Huyghe
Tagged as Amber, beer, beer tower, Belgian, Biertoren, blonde, Campus, Duke of Arenburg, family, Huyghe, Kampenhout, Leuven, Premium, Rotselaar, Smedts, University
#87 – Rubbel Sexy Lager
Size: 330 ml ABV: 5 % Rubbel Sexy Lager is ashamedly Belgian. When you close your eyes and think of why Belgian beer culture is so revered, you don’t immediately think about Rubbel Sexy Lager, but for now, for this … Continue reading →
#80 – Biere du Corsaire
Size: 330 ml ABV: 9.4 % Pirates (#15), buccaneers (#27), and now corsairs. It would appear it truly is cool to be a seadog in Belgium. Corsairs were more on a par with buccaneers than they were with pirates, in … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Belgian Strong Ale, Huyghe
Tagged as beer, Belgian, Boucanier, Buccaneer, Caribbean, Congress of Vienna, Corsair, Corsaire, Cuvee, Delirium, King, Lettre de Course, marque, Piraat, Pirate, sails, Treaty of Utrecht
#61 – La Guillotine
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8.5 % La Guillotine by Huyghe is a beer that was first brewed in 1989 as a celebration of the bicentennial of the French Revolution. Anyone who does a search on the French Revolution on this … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Belgian Strong Ale, Huyghe
Tagged as Abbey Beer, Antoinette, Assembly, Bastille, beer, Belgian, dissolution, execution, French Revolution, Guillotine, La Guillotine, lace, Louis XVI, Marie, Maximilien, monastery, National, Reign, riots, Robespierre, Rome, storming, Terror, Tivoli
#53 – Villers Tripel
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8.5% This is my 53rd beer on this trip so far, and if I am not mistaken this is the 17th individual account of an Abbey. I feel like a bloody historian with a fetish for … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Abbey Beer, Abbey Tripel, Huyghe
Tagged as Abbey Beer, beer, Belgian, Brussels, church, Cistercian, Clairvaux, French Revolution, monks, National Trust, Villers
#24 – Fruli Strawberry
Size: 330 ml ABV: 4.1 % I love the ‘Good Beer Guide: Belgium’. I love the ‘Good Beer Guide: Belgium’ so much because of its waging of war on the fruit flavoured beers. I asked author Tim Webb why he … Continue reading →
Filed under 4, Fruit Beer, Huyghe
Tagged as Fruli, Guide, Huyghe, Strawberry, Van Diest, Webb, wheat
#6 – Delirium Nocturnum
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8.5 % The Huyghe brewery on the outskirts of Ghent is responsible for the Delirium range of beers, and of course the obligatory pink elephant. In fact L’Elephant Rouge is probably the most famous thing about … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Belgian Strong Ale, Elephant, Huyghe, Labels featuring animals
Tagged as Delirium, Elephant, Huyghe, Night tremor, Nocturnum, Pink Elephant, Tremens
#1 – Mongozo Banaan
Size: 330 ml ABV: 4.5% Starting on the first tenacious steps of the road to a thousand Belgian beers, you might be forgiven for wanting to begin with a classic. I however decided to largely let fate decide my path, … Continue reading →
Filed under 4, Fruit Beer, Huyghe
Tagged as Africa, banana, Belgian beer, Chukwe, Henrique Kabia, Huyghe, Masai, Mongozo, palm nut
