Pick me a beer for Sunday from this list - Please!

[morethanworts]

Hi

I'm so into Belgian beers at the moment that I thought I'd present you knowledgeable folk with the tremendous Belgian Beer Menu at one of my locals, to which I will be forced on Sunday, expected to pick off the best of 100 (yes, a hundred) examples that they keep in stock.

I love the Rochefort 6, as a guide of my taste, but I'll take any recommendations! :thumb:

 

[pittsy]

I wouldn't know where to start but there is a lot of great beers there , i always like the duvel but easy to get so i'd try the beers i'd not seen before if it was me , lucky b**tard :

 

[Eradite]

There's a wide choice on there, and it largely depends on your taste. What jumped out at me was Rodenbach grand cru, triple karamielt (probably spelt wrong) Orval, St Barnabus triple, Rochefort, Bruge Zot, Cantillion Kriek and Maredsous brune.

 

[morethanworts]

Thanks for the replies :thumb:

I could spend a total fortune in there, but I'm trying to spread it out a bit. The three of us that go usually order something different so we get a sip of aa many different as possible. The next round often ends up being three of the same, if one stood out!

Hoping the Brewferm Abdij I bottled this week matures gracefully. It certainly had the right style about it.

 

[bunkerbrewer]

That's a serious menu :) I think I'd be most curious to try the Gueze - never had one and it seems like a style which takes real dedication and skill to brew...

 

[Brewtrog]

Delirium Nocturnum is possibly the best beer I remember trying, personally I thought it was far better than Delirium Tremens, which was voted the best beer in the world at one point (or according to the beer mats it was), so that's what I'd be drinking first.

 

[tommidolcetto]

Orval

 

[morethanworts]

Just wanted to say thanks for the recommendations and suggestions. I will do my best to give those very beers a try! It's hard work, but someone's got to do it. :drink:

 

[alanywiseman.]

I would go for Cantillon Gueuze. A massive favourite of mine. I got some people when I was out last weekend and made the bar sell out of it!!!

 

[morethanworts]

OK - Thought I'd let you kind people know that I dutifully tried as many of your suggestions as politely possible last night, considering the shared cost on the rounds.

I had a porter on tap, then...

Cantillon Gueuze - I'd read up so I knew what I was drinking, and I made sure that (at £4.75 a pop) this was on my round! So, a blended Lambic then basically? - a mix of younger and slightly older Lambics, to give the older stuff an extra fermentation. Great suggestion - obviously the weirdest tasting, controlled sourness and an acquired taste. Wouldn't have had a second with so many others to try, but I will revisit the style...

Delirium Nocturnum - Another great choice - not wildly different to the Rochefort 6. Lovely, lovely warm dark fruity taste. Easy drinking.

Then I had a Rochefort 6...

Orval - makes me think of a green duck puppet! The bottle appeared to say that it was only bottled this February, and I think this was reflected in the taste. Not (quite) as smooth as the others, with different flavours coming through separately, but still very very good. I'd be interested to try an older bottle. It was more appley than the Nocturnum to my pallet, which could turn out really great. Maybe this is how it should be and it's been bulk aged for long enough before bottling. Either way it was another great choice and I will definitely revisit.

Then (a friend twisted my arm) I had a Rochefort 8. I probably wasn't the best judge by this point :whistle: but essentially the same taste as the Rocheforte 6, just stronger ABV.

Then I had a bacon sandwich, water, and a lie in, paracetomol...It was all in the name of research and a right treat. Well done 'The Valley', Scarborough (with whom I have no association or interests!) for having so much well kept stock. Every one I asked for was there. And thanks again for such inspired suggestions. Wish I could have tried every one.