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Belgium is known for its chocolate, waffles, mussels and best of all BEER. Belgium is the mecca for beer lovers, the worlds most artisanal and diverse beers.
Beigium is home to roughly 150+ breweries and well over 500 types of beers. We’re talking about a country the size of Maryland. That’s a lot of beer!!!
Beer styles, brewing ingredients and brewing methods are all over the place: from wine-like Lambics, Gueuzes and Flemish Reds to refreshingly crisp and spicy Witbiers, to Trappist and Abbey Ales, to the delicate Bière de Champagne and everything in between. To boot, beer in Belgium is taken very seriously. Each beer is generally served in its own specific glassware and poured properly into the glass, with the bottle presented label facing the customer. If the beer is bottle conditioned, upward of an inch of beer and sediment will be left in the bottle to be consumed at the drinker’s discretion – the sediment is merely unfiltered yeast and proteins. Both of which are healthy and flavorful.
Most beer enthusiasts who travel to Belgium tend to hover around the cities of Antwerp, Bruges and Brussels, visiting some of the world’s finest beer bars or an artisanal beer festival. While this can be a guaranteed good time, to truly get a flavor for Belgian beer, I recommend renting a car or a bike and seeking out the artisanal breweries of Belgium. The countryside is beautiful, the people are beautiful and friendly.
Affligem – Dubbel 7% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Abbey Dubbel Ale
Taste: Crisp carbonation with a malty palate and medium body, loads of grapes, sweet prunes flavor, with burnt raisin, caramel, toasted grain finish
Note: Stay single, sleep triple, drinking dubbel
Augustijn 8% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Abbey Tripel /Triple Ale
Taste: Really crisp refreshing taste. I love the carbonation as it adds to an excellent mouthful, full of nice fruity flavor, reminds me of a good champagne.
Note: My priest love this beer
Chimay Ale – Premiere 7% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Abbey Dubbel Ale
Taste: Remarkably smooth, soft medium body with hint of clove, birch and herbal tea hop flavor
Note: Ben loves making out with Chimay
Chimay Ale – Cinq Cents 8% 750ml
$15.00
Style: Abbey Tripel / Triple Ale
Taste: Malty and sweet up front with a dry bitter finish and hints of citrus
Note: It’s a beer to die for, well…maybe
Chimay Ale – Grande Reserve 9% 750ml
$16.00
Style: Abbey Strong Dark Ale
Taste: Consistent with the style…very earthy, rich, and complex with the yeast/malt interplay… considerable hop profile as well, adding complexity and a balance to the sweet malt and fruits. This ale has a pleasing warming effect and is quite “alive” with carbonation and alcohol
Note: Great finale beer, the grand daddy of all beer
Foret 7.5% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Organic Saison Ale
Taste: Bubbly, spicy, citrusy, astringent. Leaves a peppery, banana-laden finish
Note: Great beer with appetizers or salad ummmmm
Duvel 8.5% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Belgian Strong Pale Ale
Taste: Smooth and extremely creamy on the palate, lively carbonated, distinct fruity malt ester, bold spiciness and slightly grain, dry finish
Note: This beer kick ass , PERIOD and another PERIOD
Delirium – Tremens Ale 8.5% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Belgian Strong Pale Ale
Taste: Medium body with a laid back crispness, pale maltiness with a big phenolic character
Note: Wonderful beer, before dinner or with dinner. Personally, I like it with breakfast.
Delirium – Nocturnum 8.5% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Belgian Strong Dark Ale
Taste: Smooth and creamy on the palate with a mellow up front sweetness, mild apple like tartness and a mix of medicinal herb, spicy alcohol and grain dry finish
Note: Wet, creamy, with good head…
Duchesse De Bourgogne 6.2% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Flemish Sour Red Ale
Taste: Smooth, rich texture with interplay of passion fruit and chocolate, and a long, dry and acidic sour finish
Note: Before or after breakfast beer ..but not with breakfast
Grotten Brown by St. Bernardus 6.7% 750ml
$15.00
Style: Belgian Cave-Aged Ale
Taste: Very subtle flavors of sweet apple and cherry along with a woody aspect; the wood takes over in the finish along with a peppery, nutmeg tone
Note: This beer sponsored by The Caveman Society
Corsendonk Pater 7.5% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Abbey Brown Ale
Taste: Wonderful sweet and smokey malt, butter, caramel, scotch, port, raisins, currants and dark fruit. Nice chewy texture.
Note: I got the high score on Donkey Kong (1984)
Corsendonk Agnus 7.5% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Abbey Pale Ale
Taste: This pale golden ale is dry, delicate and distinctive, with the finesse of champagne-like
Note: Taste best by itself, but not by yourself
Biere de Miel 8% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Belgian Honey Saison Ale
Taste: Lemony zest, honey, sweet bready earthiness and perhaps a slight bit of tropical salad (like Bun Thit) buried in there
Note: This ale is flavored with honey ummmmmmm, honey, one more
Saison Dupont 6.5% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Saison Ale
Taste: Lightly sweet, malty, honey, spicy, coriander, lemon and a hint of grassy hops
Note: Excellent beer with salads or hot & sour soup
Val-Dieu Blond 6% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Abbey Blond Ale
Taste: Crisp and clean, with an interplay of creamy nutty maltiness, hoppy bitterness and lemony acidity
Note: Tight and complex with a delicate back side. Best I ever had…
Gulden Draak 10.5% 750ml
$17.00
Style: Belgian Strong Dark Ale
Taste: Ultra-malty, smooth, soft and sweet with strong Belgian candy sugar flavours, light chocolate and semi-burnt caramel edges. I can’t stress the sugary character of this beer enough, it’s without a doubt sweet, but not in a sickly manner
Note: Cheers!
Nostradamus 9.5% 750ml
$15.00
Style: Belgian Strong Dark Ale
Taste: Rich, warming, little piquant in the mouth with liquorice mocha flavors, Vietnamese coffee, pear and toasted bread
Note: After dinner beer and then another beer
La Rulles Triple 8.4% 750ml
$15.00
Style: Belgian Tripel / Triple Ale
Taste: Plays easily on the palate, smooth and tasty, yum… big citric fruit, substantial spice…all in a very nice flavor
Note: Hmmm… taste like a steak on the grill
Chouffe Houblon 9% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Dobbelen IPA Tripel
Taste: Very well balance, smooth, strong, complex hops flavor Big clean malty body
Note: Every man is guilty of all the beer he didn’t drink
La Chouffe 8% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Belgian Strong Pale Ale
Taste: Light body, with a complex spiciness of clove, cinnamon black pepper, and a light hoppy, peachy, fruitiness finish
Note: Excellent Chouffe, enjoy with Cinderella
Mc Chouffe 8.5% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Belgian Strong Dark Ale
Taste: Medium/full bodied with hints of fruit, spice, and raison/plum undertones. It finishes long and complex as the fruit lingers, a great malt mix
Note: Great beer from the gnomes, the bearded one, Mini Me
Kasteel Bier Gouden Triple – D’or 11% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Abbey Tripel / Triple Ale
Taste: So damn smooth and creamy, First sip and you can feel the 11% alcohol by volume snaking its way through your blood pipes – down the neck, into the chest, up the neck and into your brain where it eats it. Alcohol is spicy, very warming with fusels that you can feel on your breath. Malt character is sweet and fruity with a flavourful touch of apricot and honey. Peppery notes follow, as does caramel/toffee malt flavours, light yeast and more layered toasted malts.
Note: So damnnnnnnnnnnn good
Kasteel bier – Donker 11% 750ml
$15.00
Style: Belgian Strong Dark / Port Ale
Taste: Adark, rich, malty, syrupy, with a port-ish like finish
Note: This is the port of beer, very rich and sweet flavor
Biere du Boucanier 11% 750ml
$16.00
Style: Belgian Strong Pale Ale
Taste: Juicy citrus fruits upfront, a hint of bananas, bread dough, and it finished with a little of that peppery bite. The alcohol is a bit more noticeable as it warms, ohhh yeah.
Note: A mistress is what go between a mister and a mattress
Petrus Gouden Tripel 7.50% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Belgian Strong Tripel / Triple Ale
Taste: Semi-dry with a strong herbal hop flavor at the beginning. Big coriander and black pepper flavor kicks in on the second sip and finishes with some astringent hop/herbal finish
Note: Did you hear about that new drink called “old maid”? it has no chaser?
Karmeliet Tripel 8% 750ml
$15.00
Style: Abbey Tripel / Triple Ale
Taste: Light and malty with a semi sweet fruitiness, hint of caramel, wheat and roasted malt
Note: Staying single, sleeping double, drinking triple
Malheur 10 10% 750ml
$15.00
Style: Belgian Strong Golden Ale
Taste: The first sip greets the mouth with graasy, almost farmy Belgian hops that bring to mind the wide open space in the countryside of Henrico. Next comes a fruity palate, bringing gooseberries and goosebum grapes to the tongue. The swallow brings forth a final, earthy hop bitterness that suck up into your vein
Note: one hell of a beer
Floreffe 8% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Belgian Special Reserve Ale
Taste: Sweet, fairy malty, with licorice flavor, some pleasant spicy and peppery notes in the middle. Quite a bit of yeasty fruitiness as well
Note: Love the style, love this beer, enjoy
St. Bernardus Abt 12 10% 750ml
$15.00
Style: Abbey Strong Dark Ale
Taste: Almost ebony in color, smooth, creamy and full body with big richness of texture, like a warming coconut brandy. Kick ass beer
Note: A beer in the hand is worth 2 in the fridge
Poperings Hommel Ale 7.50% 750ml
$15.00
Style: Belgian Strong Pale/Hommel Ale
Taste: Well balanced; starts off with flavors of dry malts, followed by a massive presence of spice and hops. Finished slightly sweet and smooth, excellent
Note: Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow they may cancel your VISA
Saxo 7% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Belgian Blond Ale
Taste: Rounded biting hop twang bitterness and carbonation with a silky bubling woo mouth feel. Fruity, mainly pears, some apple, banana
Liefmans – Framboise 4.5% 750ml
$15.00
Style: Raspberry Lambic
Taste: Full of raspberry, slightly sweet and syrupy, ummm
Note: This one is for sweet tooth, pop goes the weasel
Premium St Louis – Peche 4.5% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Peach Lambic
Taste: Golden in color; with a nose that fills the room with fresh peaches; sparkling, crisp and refreshing
Note: Would you care to sniff the cap?
Premium St Louis – Kriek 4.5% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Cherry Lambic
Taste: Bouquet of freshly harvested cherries; sparkling, smooth, fruity and refreshing, finishing off dry
Note: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the sweetest beer of all
Lindemans – Cassis 4.5% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Cassis Lambic
Taste: Bouquet of freshly harvested cassis; sparkling, smooth, fruity and refreshing, finishing off dry
Note: “Booze is the answer, I don’t remember the question”
Gouden Carolus Hopsinjoor 8% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Belgian IPA
Taste: Wow this is a very nice Belgian IPA. Citrus, lemon rind, melon. Intense bitternessin finish that almost puckers your cheeks. Faint mineral qualities (think savigion blanc), very crisp and refreshing. Booze is very well hidden. Well done!
Gouden Carolus Ambrio 8% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Belgian Amber Ale
Taste: Opens with a malty flavor, that has a very dry caramel character; by mid-palate, there is a sense of floral hops; after the swallow, a bitter presence linger, along with some golden fruit and orange zest
Gouden Carolus Rood 10% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Belgian Strong Pale Ale
Taste: Sweet honey, butter and cherry. On the palate it’s amazing how well the beer carries its 10% abv. One notices a bit of warming from the alcohol, but I don’t get it much on the palate. The beer has a long, rich, viscuous mouthfeel. It is moderately sweet, and is very long in the finish. I get flavors of ice tea and a hint of juniper. I also pick up a bit of alcohol at the very end
Gouden Carolus Triple 8.5% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Belgian Triple Ale
Taste: Complex, in a mellow/subtle way. Fruity – apple, melon, a bit of pear, a hint of orange with a balancing earthy/herbal, grassy spicing – hoppy without becoming too herbal/medicinal. This is all held together by caramel and a nice yeast strain. Wonderful balance of malt, hops, and yeast. Just a hint of soft alcohol that lends dryness and a touch of peppery spice more than it does heat
Note: The rain in Spain mainly rain on the plain
Gouden Carolus Grand Cru 10% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Belgian Grand Cru
Taste: A malt monster ale. Dark fermented fruit, honey, banana, maple syrup, chocolate, fruitcake, marshmallows, clove, allspice, what a range of tastes here!! Some hops show up around the swallow, but why bother? Slight bitter finish with very warm alcohol clarify and enhance the wonderful profile
Note: Great after dinner beer or after dinner beer beer beer
Piraat 10.5% 750ml
$15.00
Style: Belgian Strong Pale-IPA Ale
Taste: A smooth, crisp, honey-like malt flavour, peppery with a strong alcohol lining andntermingledhopbitterness. Perfectly sweet fruit flavor dominates onset with mild, smooth bitterness taking over and finishing into a clean, crisp tone. Malts are sweet with pilsner flavor at base. Hops are fruity and even flowery with crisp high notes balancing the alcohol and bitterness very well. Exceptional. This is an excellent marriage.
Note: Excellent beer, but hard to find and harder to stop drinking
Saison D’ Erpe-Mere 7.5% 750ml
$16.00
Style: Belgian Saison Ale
Taste: This beer has a citrus like flavor. Orange peel, and a lemon zest. It tastes slightly spicy. It has the grainy farmhouse flavor that I enjoy so much. This beer is crisp and refreshing. It is highly carbonated. It goes down smooth leaving a spicy lemony aftertaste.
Canaster Winterscotch 9.5% 750ml
$16.00
Style: Winterscotch-Style Ale / Belgian Strong Dark Ale
Taste: Dark mahogany red with a large creamy off white head. Malts and liquorice combined to give it a rich wintery aroma, coal fire smell without the smoke feel. Fairly dry, but something in there gives it a sweetish finish, which strangely gives way to a bitter after taste. This is a complexed beer and well made.
Note: Very very small brewery, brewed by a husband and wife who love to get drunk everyday…..cheers!
Moinette Blonde 8.5% 750ml
$13.00
Style: Belgian Blonde Ale
Taste: Grassy and minty at first, there’s a little bit of candi sugar floating behind it. Out comes a trickle of barnyard and leather. Gets sweeter as warms, and with it unlocks orchard fruits. A kick of alcohol warms the throat. Velvet-like mouthfeel with a very dry finish.
Westmalle Dubbel 7% 750ml
$16.00
Style: Trappist Dubbel Ale
Taste: Aroma of chocolate covered nuts and rum soaked fruit. Floral flavor of dark fruit – raisins, plums, plus hints of dark chocolate. Slightest hint of sugary rum and candy sugar. Creamy, ample carbonation, dry yeast finish. Absolutely delicious.
Westmalle Tripel 9 .5% 750ml
$16.00
Style: Trappist Tripel Ale
Taste: Fiercely bubbly-textured palate with rough and warmish alcoholic attack as my palate gets used to the texture, I could sense semi-sweetish bready malts followed by light touches of tropical fruits–mainly bananas, oranges and drops of lemonade.
Note: Similar to Eastmalle, Northmalle, Southmalle
Maredsous 8 8% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Belgian Brune / Brown Ale
Taste: It smelled of candy sugar, dried frutis, malt and some toffee. Very complex taste with a blend of malt, chocolate, toffee and spices. It manages to be sweet and spicy at the same time.
Maredsous 10 10% 750ml
$15.00
Style: Belgian Strong Tripel / Triple Ale
Taste: Aroma of musty cork, sweet malt and candy. A taste of barley malt, a reminder of pancakes, some spice, a nice dry finish and a faint and delicate hop bitterness. A nice alcohol warming in the mouth and throat but is nearly undetectable on the tongue.
St Feuillien Brune 7.5% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Abbey Brune/Dubbel/Brown
Taste: Nice dark malts, sweet maltyness, notes of chocolate, dark fruits, maybe some strawberries, prune or black cherries. Full bodied, big spritzy carbo, dry finish.
St Feuillien Tripel 8.5% 750ml
$14.00
Style: Abbey Tripel /Triple Ale
Taste: A creamy blonde colour , very hoppy and dry hint of juniper and orange. Taste sweet and fruity upfront, predominantly bananas. Peppery spiciness appears in the center followed by a light bitterness in the finish.
Note: An amazing triple, Make mine a double