Category Archives: Van den Bossche
#227 – Kerst Pater Special
Size: 330 ml ABV: 9 % Christmas beers largely exist for a number of perfectly good reasons, which if you want to revisit please feel free to check out the Bush de Noel (#83) – the first Christmas beer of … Continue reading →
Filed under 8, Belgian Strong Ale, Van den Bossche
Tagged as Belgian beer, Christmas, Kerst Pater Special, lambswool, Pater Lieven, Van den Bossche, wassailing
#196 – Buffalo Belgian Bitter
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8.5 % The Brouwerij van den Bossche is most well known for it’s range of Pater Lieven beers (#18, #73), however they have also been brewing another range called Buffalo for well over a hundred years … Continue reading →
Filed under 8, Belgian Strong Ale, Van den Bossche
Tagged as Arthur, beer, Belgian, Bill, Bitter, Buffalo, circus, De Ranke, Lieven, Pater, Sint-Lievens-Esse, Stout, Van den Bossche, XX
#73 – Pater Lieven Blonde
Size: 330 ml ABV: 6.5 % We have already met the Father of Lieven back in the late teens (#18), and this beer is the second toe dipped in the same range from the Van den Bossche stable. It is … Continue reading →
Filed under 6, Belgian Ale, Van den Bossche
Tagged as Ardennes, Arthur, beer, Belgian, blonde, Bruno, chocolates, Emmanuel, Ignace, Lieven, Mark, Pater, Sint-Lievens-Esse, Van den Bossche, Willy
#22 – Lamoral Tripel
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8 % Lamoral Tripel is more than a beer. It is in many ways a celebration of national pride. It may seem a long time ago, but Belgium and the present day Netherlands were under Spanish … Continue reading →
Filed under 6, Abbey Tripel, Van den Bossche
Tagged as 80, beer, Belgian, Brussels, Catholic, Count, Duke of Alba, Egmont, Eighty Years War, Hoorn, iconoclasm, independence, Inquisition, Lamoral, Netherlands, Phillip II, Spain, Tripel, Van den Bossche, William of Orange
#18 – Pater Lieven Bruin
Size: 330 ml ABV: 6.5 % Pater Lieven translates from Flemish as the ‘Father of Lieven’ – the father being a certain patron saint of the local parish – St Livinus. Now, any art lovers may have heard this name … Continue reading →
