Posts Tagged: Belgium and the Belgian-Influenced
Finally, A Trip To A CNY Beer Store Planned
Posted by on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 in - 3 comments
It has been brutal recently. Having little kids around can really trip up your plans to get some fine beer shopping in while traveling to foreign countries. It's hard on me not to have a foolish amount of corked bottles in the stash. You know how it is. Fortunately, the stars have aligned and we …
Belgium: Nostradamus, Brasserie Caracole, Falmignoul
Posted by on Thursday, December 25, 2008 in - 6 comments
Christmas Day. Two naps, a new Wii and a beer named after a failed Renaissance seer. Good Lord, I wrote about Belgian dark strong ales almost four years ago. Before almost anyone else was blogging. Bet that post's all wrong. • Michael Jackson points out in Great Beers of Belgium that this brewer …
Belgium: Ultra Amber, Brasserie d'Ecaussinnes, D'Enghien
Posted by on Tuesday, October 7, 2008 in - 1 comment
A small gift to myself from Tulley's last August. $3.25 from the discount rack. "Discount rack?!?" you say. Yes, discount rack. Don't you recall what your mother told you as she lent over you and cooled your brow with the wet wash cloth when you had that fever back in grade five? She said" …
Belgium: Pannepot GR '05, De Struise / Deca, W' Vleteren
Posted by on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 in - 1 comment
I must have been very good today as this is the bottle I decided to open. I mowed the half the lawn. And I held the fort at my desk with a certain style. I'll likely even keep the empty as it even has the mark of importers Roland + Russell, the kind folks who forwarded this sample. • But, you …
Travis Compares New Belgium To Old Belgium
Posted by on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 in - 4 comments
[Ed.: It's been oddly busy in my life. Good Beer Blog HQ has been idle and we know what idle hands are. Happily Travis of CNYBrew.com sent me this post yesterday to fill the gap. I expect further a guest post soon from our man in Norway, Knut, as well. Stay tuned. I'll get back on track. Really I …
Belgium: Blond, Abbey Of St. Sixtus, Westvleteren
Posted by on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 in - 6 comments
Something green perhaps. Michael Jackson wrote in his Great Beers of Belgium that this beer has "a powerfully earthy, herbal aroma; a light, firm body; and an intensely appetising hop bitterness". Any beer that can generate that word to semi-colon ratio is fine by me, I suppose. • But first, it …
Belgium: Chapeau Lemon and Kriek, Brouwerij De Troch
Posted by on Thursday, June 5, 2008 in - 2 comments
Girlie Drink Drunk. There was a Kids in the Hall skit fifteen years or so back called "Girlie Drink Drunk." It seems to be on YouTube. That's all I can think of when I see these super sweet lambic offerings but I buy them hoping they will be more fruited than sweetened. And I didn't mind the …
Sour Beer Studies: Oude Kriek Vieille, Oud Beersel, Belgium
Posted by on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 in - leave a comment
What better for apres mow than a sour beer? I mowed and now I am owed. I don't see it mentioned in Great Beers of Belgium so maybe this actually is a lawnmower dry kriek. • Oud Beersel's kriek pours as deep a blood red as any I've had. It sits under a vibrant pink cream head. On the nose there … read more »
Belgium: Canaster, De Glazen Toren, Erpe-Mere
Posted by on Sunday, May 25, 2008 in - 2 comments
Here is a hint when you are traveling. If, after a tiring 600 km drive (to be followed the next day by another 600 km drive) you notice contract street sweeping equipment in the parking lot, get a new hotel. Street sweepers come and go in the night, you see. After idling their massive engines for …
Belgium: Podge Belgian Imperial Stout, Alvinne, Inglemunster
Posted by on Thursday, May 22, 2008 in - 1 comment
Is this the worst label ever? It looks like it came off a black and white photocopier. Plus, how am I expected to fit the full name and brewery info in up there? That would be "Podge Belgian Imperial Stout, Picobrouwerij Alvinne, Ingelmunster." But these things are really unimportant and more than …
