Category Archives: Van Honsebrouck
#181 – Kasteel Triple
Size: 330 ml ABV: 11 % This is the second and penultimate beer from the Kasteel range which has found its way down my throat. The first was the dark sweet cloying beast that is the Kasteel Donker (#93), where … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Abbey Tripel, Van Honsebrouck
Tagged as beer, Belgian, Bush Blonde, castle, Donker, Dubuisson, fire, Hapsburg, Ingelmunster, Kasteel, Kasteelkelder, Luc, Marc, Tripel, Triple, Van Honsebrouck
#126 – St. Louis Premium Kriek
Size: 330 ml ABV: 3.5 % Saint Louis has done rather well for himself in the naming stakes. A state in Mexico, a city in the US, a famous baseball team, an Oscar winning movie, and of course the cherry … Continue reading →
Filed under 8, Lambic - Fruit, Van Honsebrouck
Tagged as beer, Belgian, Brewers Guild, cherry, Crusades, France, Fruit, King Louis IX, Kriek, Lambic, Premium, St Louis
#93 – Kasteel Donker
Size: 330 ml ABV: 11 % Kasteel means ‘castle’ in Flemish, and is a direct reference to the U-shaped building that sits proudly on the label. The present castle dates back to 1736, however there has been a castle on … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Belgian Strong Ale, Van Honsebrouck
Tagged as Baroness, beer, Belgian, Brune, castle, Count, de Meaux, Donker, Flanders, Ingelmunster, Kasteel, Luc, Marc, Mathilde, Montblanc, Robert de Fries, van Plotho
#42 – Bacchus
Size: 250 ml ABV: 4.5 % We have already come across a Bacchus (#38) whereby raspberries were added to brown ale – well this is the brown ale in question – Bacchus Vlaams Oud Bruin. ‘Oud Bruin’ is Flemish for … Continue reading →
#38 – Bacchus Frambozenbier
Size: 375 ml ABV: 5% Raspberry beer – it might sound odd but historically raspberries have often been added to beers after initial fermentation. Lambic beers in particular, where the term ‘steeping’ is used to describe the process of adding … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Sour Ale, Van Honsebrouck
Tagged as ale, Bacchus, beer, Belgian, cherry, expensive, fermentation, Framboise, Frambozenbier, Fruit, Ingelmunster, Lambic, Raspberry, sour, steeping, Van Honsebrouck
