Tag Archives: Brussels
#172 – Timmermans Kriek
Size: 330 ml ABV: 4 % It has been a while since I last supped on a Timmermans beer (#12), which gave me the opportunity to talk about their gueuze. It seems only right now to introduce a little bit … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Lambic - Fruit, Timmermans
Tagged as Anthony Martin, beer, Belgian, Brasserie, Brussels, Frans, Gueuze, Henry Vanheyleweghen, Itterbeek, Jacobus, Kriek, Lambic, Mole, Paul, Taupe, Timmermans, Tradition, van Cutsem, Walraevens
#147 – Boon Kriek
Size: 250 ml ABV: 4 % It seems a long time ago now that I was first drinking the Boon Oude Gueuze (#89) where we first met Frank Boon. I said then I would continue his story, and it’s definitely … Continue reading →
#130 – Oud Beersel Oude Kriek
Size: 375 ml ABV: 6.5 % The striking feature of the Oud Beersel Oude Kriek label is the elegantly designed illustration of a castle. This Kasteel van Beersel is the most striking tourist attraction of the town of Beersel from … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Lambic - Fruit, Oud Beersel
Tagged as beer, Beersel, Belgian, blender, Brussels, Drie Fonteinen, Duke of Brabant, Jan II, Kasteel, Lambic, League of Friends, Maximilian, Oud Beersel, radish, Rake, white cheese
#95 – Cantillon Kriek 100% Lambic
Size: 375 ml ABV: 5 % Cantillon has five entries in the ‘Top 100 Belgian beers to try before you die’ – it would have been more but the authors felt it might skew the book somewhat. As we have … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Cantillon, Lambic - Fruit
Tagged as barrel, beer, Belgian, Brussels, Cantillon, cherry, fermentation, Kellery, Kriek, Lambic, Lindemans, Payottenland, St Truiden
#89 – Boon Oude Gueuze
Size: 250 ml ABV: 6.5 % This is my third Gueuze, but in a sense my first real Gueuze. With every disrespect to Timmermans (#12) and Belle-Vue (#62), this is what Gueuze is all about, and is brewed/blended by a … Continue reading →
Filed under 6, Boon, Lambic - Gueuze
Tagged as beer, Belgian, Belle-Vue, blender, Boon, Brussels, copper, De Vits, Frank Boon, Gueuze, horse blanket, Lambic, Oude, Timmermans, Tradition, World War
#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
#51 – Abbaye de Forest
Size: 330 ml ABV: 6.5 % The light had begun to fade at the campsite after our late start, and it had started to get a little chilly. I dug around for my army jumper, pulled myself up to the … Continue reading →
Filed under 5, Abbey Beer, Belgian Ale, Silly
Tagged as Abbaye, Abbey Beer, beer, Belgian, Benedictine, Brasserie, Brussels, Couvin, Duvel, fire, Forest, French Revolution, Silly, Stella
#26 – Steenbrugge Dubbel Bruin
Size: 330 ml ABV: 6.5 % The beers of Steenbrugge are steeped in a rich beer-fuelled history – 925 years to be exact! It was then in 1084 that a certain Arnold of Tiegem – the dude kissing the potato … Continue reading →
Filed under 6, Abbey Beer, Abbey Dubbel, Palm
Tagged as Abbey Beer, Amandus, Arnold, Arnoldus, beer, Belgian, Bruin, Brussels, day of beer, Dubbel, mashing fork, Mertens, monastery, Oudenburg, St Peters, Steenbrugge, Tiegem
#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 →
#12 – Timmermans Tradition Gueuze
Size: 330 ml ABV: 5 % This is a tough ask – to sum up Gueuze in a paragraph or two. How can one possibly do that without delving deep into the world of lambic? Well here’s the whistle-stop tour. … Continue reading →
Filed under 5, Lambic - Gueuze, Timmermans
Tagged as Anthony Martins, Brussels, Gueuze, hops, Lambic, oak, old, Payottenland, sour, Timmermans, Tradition, yeast, young
