Tag Archives: wheat
#187 – Blanche des Honnelles
Size: 330ml ABV: 6 % Blanche des Honnelles is a uniquely flavoured beer made at the Abbaye des Rocs brewery very close to the French border. It is so named after the rivers that flow at their most powerfully through … Continue reading →
Filed under 4, Abbaye des Rocs, Belgian White (Witbier)
Tagged as Abbaye, Abbaye des Rocs, barley, beer, Belgian, Blanche, Grande, Honnelles, Montignies-sur-Rocs, oats, Petite, Rocs, wheat
#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
#115 – Joseph
Size: 250 ml ABV: 5.4 % Straight after Sara (#114) came Joseph – a kind of younger brother beer from Silenrieux. Where Sara is unusual in that it is made from buckwheat, the Joseph is made from spelt. Spelt is … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Fish, Silenrieux, Speciality Grain
Tagged as beer, Belgian, buckwheat, Epeautre, gluten, Joseph, Sara, Silenrieux, spelt, wheat
#100 – St. Bernardus Wit
Size: 330 ml ABV: 5.5 % Beer experts tend to say that if you want to try a beer that tastes like Hoegaarden (#81) used to then there is no better exponent than the St. Bernardus Wit. This comes as … Continue reading →
Filed under 8, Belgian White (Witbier), Brewers, St. Bernardus
Tagged as beer, Belgian, Celis, coriander, Flanders, Hoegaarden, malt, orange peel, Pierre, St. Bernardus, wheat, Wit, Witbier
#97 – Triverius
Size: 330 ml ABV: 6.8 % Believe it or not but Triverius was a beer first made in 2004 in homage to a famous man of medicine from the village of Nederbrakel. The occasion was to mark the 500th anniversary … Continue reading →
#81 – Hoegaarden
Size: 250 ml ABV: 4.9 % Everybody has heard of Hoegaarden – certainly since Interbrew exported it around the world. In terms of white/wheat beers there are probably none more famous. The beer gets it name from the town in … Continue reading →
#35 – Corsendonk Pater
Size: 330 ml ABV: 7.5 % I have already been impressed with the Corsendonk Agnus Tripel (#4), and now it was time for the dark Pater. We already know from the earlier drink about the history of the Priory in … Continue reading →
#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
