Category Archives: 9
This beer warrants a 9/10. This is a class act. We are talking here of some seriously good shit !
#229 – Tripel Karmeliet
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8.4 % I am surprised as anyone that it has taken this long to try this beer. After the Dulle Teve (#228) and some wonderful aged Chimay Blue (#45) from the depths of the Kulminator cellar … Continue reading →
Filed under 9, Abbey Tripel, Bosteels
Tagged as Belgian beer, Carmelite, Dendermonde, Kulminator, Mount Carmel, Tripel Karmeliet
#215 – Satan Red
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8 % The de Block brewery in Peizegem is probably most noted for its two Satan beers. Certainly the bulk of the marketing around the brewery centres around the little red devil on the label, although … Continue reading →
Filed under 9, Belgian Strong Ale, De Block
Tagged as Arrogant Bastard, De Block, Duivels Bier, Duvel, Lucifer, Red, Satan, Wiggly Piggly
#208 – Oerbier
Size: 330 ml ABV: 9 % Oerbier is the flagship beer of the de Dolle Brouwers, and was the first beer to be launched by the Mad Brothers. The name of the beer roughly translates as ‘primitive beer’, ‘original beer’, … Continue reading →
Filed under 9, Belgian Strong Ale, De Dolle Brouwers
Tagged as Antwerp, beer, Belgian, Boskeun, Brouwers, De Dolle, Herteleer, Jo, Kris, Kulminator, Nat en Straf, Oerbier, Palm, Rodenbach
#184 – ‘T Smisje Dubbel
Size: 330 ml ABV: 9 % I continued my adventure in the Rake with another beer from ‘T Smisje. The Tripel (#183) had been so good that I opted for the darker double, and am therefore quickly able to continue … Continue reading →
Filed under 9, Abbey Dubbel, Dog, Smisje
Tagged as Alvinne, BBBourgondier, beer, Belgian, Brandt, Calva, Calvados, dates, De Dolle, de Regenboog, Dubbel, Duvel, Facebook, Guido, hop, Johan, lemon balm, Mater, Moortgat, mustard, Oudenaarde, raisins, Rake, Reserva, Sleedornbier, sloes, Smisje, Smiske, Struise, Tripel, valerian root, Wostyntje
#167 – La Montagnarde
Size: 330 ml ABV: 9 % You might expect a beer that is named after a mountaineer to be based somewhere alpine, but as we have already elicited from the Abbaye des Rocs Brune (#67), the area around the village … Continue reading →
Filed under 9, Abbaye des Rocs, Abbey Beer, Belgian Strong Ale
Tagged as Abbaye des Rocs, Abbey, Audregnies, Battle of Mons, beer, Belgian, Boskeun, Brune, caramel, Countess, Edith Cavell, Germans, Great War, High Lands, Jeanne de Belleville, Montagnarde, Montignies-sur-Rocs, mountaineer, Natalie Eloir, National Park, Sieberg, toffee, treason, World War I
#151 – Straffe Hendrik
Size: 330 ml ABV: 9 % The Straffe Hendrik hasn’t always had things it’s own way. Life certainly hasn’t always been kind, and the fact that the beer is still alive and tastes so damn good is one of the … Continue reading →
#149 – Westmalle Tripel
Size: 330 ml ABV: 9.5 % Just as Westmalle symbolises the ultimate Dubbel (#16), then look no further than Westmalle for the archetypal Tripel. I often get asked by new recruits who I drag to London’s best pubs for a … Continue reading →
Filed under 9, Abbey Beer, Abbey Tripel, Trappist Beer, Westmalle
Tagged as beer, Belgian, Drie Linden, Dubbel, gravity, Hendrik, Superbier, Three Lindens, Trappist, Tripel, Verlinden, Westmalle, Witkap Pater
#141 – Silly La Divine
Size: 330 ml ABV: 9.5 % This beer has been going for quite a while, and is one of the flagship beers from the Silly brewery. It has survived a number of label changes, ending up with a … Continue reading →
Filed under 9, Belgian Strong Ale, Silly
Tagged as Aegir, beer, Belgian, Chapel, Dionysus, floordrobe, God, La Divine, liberator, Mbana Mwana Waresa, Ninkasi, Osiris, Radegast, Ragutiene, Raugupatis, Silly, Sumeria, Tezcatzontecatl, Yasigi, Zeus
#123 – St. Feuillien Cuvee de Noel
Size: 330 ml ABV: 9 % We already know who St. Feuillien was (#29), and that beer was brewed in the Abbaye St-Feuillien du Roeulx in his honour. Production did stop here in 1796 though when the French Revolution did … Continue reading →
Filed under 9, Abbey Beer, Belgian Strong Ale, Christmas Beer, St. Feuillien
Tagged as Abbaye, Abbey, beer, Belgian, Brasserie, Christmas, Cuvee, Dominique, Du Bocq, French Revolution, Friart, Noel, Rochefort, Roeulx, St. Feuillien, Stephanie, Trappistes, Xmas
#82 – Boskeun
Size: 330 ml ABV: 10 % De Dolle Brouwers literally means ‘the mad brothers’, and if you have ever called in on the brewery premises and looked about you will probably understand why. There were originally three Herteleer brothers, Kris, … Continue reading →
#46 – St. Bernardus Abt 12
Size: 330 ml ABV: 10.5 % St. Bernardus has a slightly different history to many others of the Trappist/Abbey ilk. For all intents and purposes you may pick up a bottle and consider this a Trappist beer, and if you … Continue reading →
Filed under 9, Abbey Beer, Abt/Quadrupel, St. Bernardus
Tagged as Abbey Beer, ale, beer, Belgian, Catsberg, Deconinck, Evarist, monastery, Refuge, St Bernard, St Sixtus, Trappist, Watou, Westvleteren
#45 – Chimay Blue
Size: 330 ml ABV: 9 % Chimay print the year of bottling on their ‘Blue’ labels. Many other beers do, but not prominently on the front of the bottle. One of the unique selling points of good Belgian beer is … Continue reading →
Filed under 9, Abbey Beer, Belgian Strong Ale, Chimay, Trappist Beer
Tagged as aging, beer, Belgian, Bleue, Blue, bottle, cellar, cellaring, chill haze, Chimay, conditioned, floordrobe, Grand, Reserve, Rochefort, Trappistes, vintage
#37 – Orval
Size: 330 ml ABV: 6.3% Orval is the fourth of the six Trappist breweries we have come across thus far in Belgium, and it is almost certainly the most attractive, set in the grounds of the Abbaye Notre-Dame d’Orval in … Continue reading →
Filed under 9, Abbey Beer, Belgian Ale, Fish, Orval, Trappist Beer
Tagged as Abbey Beer, beer, Belgian, Benedictine, French Revolution, legend, Luxembourg, Mathilda, monastery, Notre Dame, Orval, Queen of Trappists, spring, Trappist, trout, Tuscany, Val d'Or, Valley of Gold, van der Cruyssen, Virgin Mary, wedding ring
#31 – Trappistes Rochefort 8
Size: 330 ml ABV: 9.2 % I have already outlined the history of the Trappistes Rochefort Abbey in my coverage of the Rochefort 10 (#13). Perhaps what I didn’t mention was that the success of the Trappistes Rochefort beers of … Continue reading →
Filed under 9, Abbey Beer, Belgian Strong Ale, Rochefort, Trappist Beer
Tagged as 8, Abbey Beer, Achel, agreement, beer, Belgian, Chimay, distribution, green, monk, Rochefort, St Remy, Trappiste
#28 – Bon Secours Brune
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8 % This website is beginning to feel like a trainspotters’ guide to monasteries. For that I must apologise, but I must admit my previous views of the behabited ones was that life can’t really … Continue reading →
Filed under 9, Abbey Beer, Abbey Dubbel, Caulier
Tagged as beer, Belgian, Bernadine, Biere, Bon Secours, Brune, Burkina Faso, Caulier, Cistercian, Congo, Esquermes, French Revolution, Grolsch, monastery, nuns, Peruwelz, Vivante
#15 – Piraat 9
Size: 330 ml ABV: 9 % Feast your eyes on any shelf in a decent Belgian Beer store, and you will find a number of beers dedicated to life at sea. Van Steenberge brew Piraat which of course is Flemish … Continue reading →
Filed under 9, Belgian Strong Ale, Van Steenberge
Tagged as beer, blond, energy, gallon, morale, Piraat, Pirate, sea, Somalia, Van Steenberge
#13 – Trappistes Rochefort 10
Size: 330 ml ABV: 11.3 % The story of the Trappistes Rochefort Beers starts on very much the same vein as that of the Grimbergen beers (#8, #9). Abbey makes beer – Abbey gets destroyed by plunderers – Abbey reforms … Continue reading →
Filed under 9, Abbey Beer, Abt/Quadrupel, Rochefort, Trappist Beer
Tagged as Belgian beer, Observance, Saint-Remy, Trappist, Trappistes Rochefort
