Recommend a Belgian Beer

[Norfolk79]

St Bernardus is a very nice beer, certainly very quaffable

 

[Linalmeemow]

St Bernardus is a very nice beer, certainly very quaffable

If you quaff the 10 it's going to end badly!

 

[Norfolk79]

If you quaff the 10 it's going to end badly!

That’s what I mean, it doesn’t taste that strong

 

[Sadfield]

Heads up. The new edition of CAMRA Good Beer Guide Belgium is now available to pre-order. Great for the lowdown on who brews what, and indispensable if making a pilgrimage.

https://shop.camra.org.uk/books/good-beer-guide-belgium-8th-edition.html

Disclaimer: I'm in no way affiliated to CAMRA. :-D

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[LesTom]

Rochefort 10
St Bernardus Abt 12
Chimay Blue

That's my 3 favourite Belgian beers

 

[MmmBeer]

I am coming to the end of my recent purchases and can probably say that I only found one bottle that I genuinely didn't like. That was the Belle View Gueuze, which was highly acidic and tasted vaguely of vomit, not nice.

Of the others, the Duvel tripel hop Citra was very good, I always like a good smack of citra. The St Bernadus Tripel and Kwak were both very good, but my favourite has to be the Gouden Carolus Tripel, rich and flavourful, but well balanced and not overpowering.

One surprising beer was a bottle I kept to the end, the Lindemans Gueuze. The sour notes were far more restrained and balanced by the malt character of the beer. Not sure I would rush to buy it again, but it showed me that I could enjoy that style.

 

[geigercntr]

Reasonable offer for a taste of Belgium here:

https://belgiuminabox.com/shop/tast...uze-collection-box-14x375cl.html#.WrTvV4HLdV8

Post to UK about a tenner

 

[Horlock07]

You cannot go wrong with Kwaremont, well actually you can as it doesn't taste 6.6% and thus at at the end of the evening on it invariably your legs don't work. Generally a bloody nice beer.

 

[chthon]

As a Belgian I say: so much beers, and so little time! Today I bought Ten Dolen Kriek, Augustijn Grand Cru, Augustijn Dark, Rochefort 8, Filou and Keyte "Ostense Tripel" (can' t translate that in a proper way). And that is just a selection from a small liquor store, which actually specialises more in gins and whiskeys.

 

[Llamaman]

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned it yet, so perhaps I'm about to reveal myself as a total phillistine, but Rodenbach Grand Cru. I love that stuff.

 

[Zephyr259]

I am coming to the end of my recent purchases and can probably say that I only found one bottle that I genuinely didn't like. That was the Belle View Gueuze, which was highly acidic and tasted vaguely of vomit, not nice.

Of the others, the Duvel tripel hop Citra was very good, I always like a good smack of citra. The St Bernadus Tripel and Kwak were both very good, but my favourite has to be the Gouden Carolus Tripel, rich and flavourful, but well balanced and not overpowering.

I really like Gouden Carolus Classic, next time I'm ordering Belgian beers I'll try their tripel. Rochefort might be my favourite, the 6 is ok but I love the 8 and 10.

I had a similar issue with some gueuze, think it was Hassens which my wife and mate described as "battery acid beer" other have that bit of off-puting mouldy character... The Rodenbachs both tasted thin and vinegary to me, especially the Rodenbach Grand Cru, which was very disappointing after reading about all this malt richness and fruit. I'd think some of these bottles had been mishandled somehow but all the trappist ales from the same company are brilliant.