Belgium beer sugestions
Hi all
I have just moved to Liège, Belgium, spent the last five years living in College Station, Texas. There I was able to get my hands on a few Belgium beers, but the selection was limited and I have a larger selection of Belgium beer in my local corner shop now, for about a third of the price ! Has anyone got any suggestions about harder to get Belgium beers that I should look out for.
Thanks
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Yep
While I'm not sure what was hard to get in the US, there are some Belgian beers I had while there that I wish I could get regularly here.
* Anything from De Dolle - these guys are amazing. And a little crazy. :)
* Rodenbach Vin de Céréale - you might have to go to the brewery to get this one. It's worth it.
* Obviously, the Westvleteren beers
* The "not for public consumption" Trappist beers - you'll have to go to each location, but most do a "small beer" for general drinking that isn't exported.
* Not quite a beer, but in Bruges, go to the Halve Maan brewery, and have the beer and cheese soup. ;)
* Hit Delerium in Brussels, and select from the more than 2000 beers on the menu there. Downstairs bar though.
Hope that's of some use.
Thanks Greig I was doing a
Thanks Greig
I was doing a bit of research on online and i found this place
http://www.vaudree-concept.be/pages_brasseries_vaudrees/vaudree02.html
its is not to far from where I am living at the moment, will see if I can pick up some of your recomendiatins (and a few others) tomorrow, unfortunately Westvleteren is the other side of the country, but Belgium is a small country =), will see what they have local first and then i will branch out
Thanks
Keith
It is small, and the rail
It is small, and the rail network is awesome! Unfortunately the St. Sixtus abbey/In De Vrede cafe are both quite a way from the train station at Poperinge. My wife and I walked the 7km out to the cafe, but we were feeling hardcore! It's possible to book a bus from Poperinge, but you need to do so 24 hours in advance.
Vaudrée looks pretty damn cool. I'm not so sure about the whole concept/franchise thing, but the guy sure sounds passionate about beer.
Mort Subite, Drie Fonteinen,
Mort Subite (visit the bar itself), Drie Fonteinen, Cantillon (many available there that aren't available here...and those that ARE available here are $8 instead of $27), and you really should go to the De Struise Brewery. From all accounts, visitors are showered with mystical beer such as 30 year old lambic and some of the best beers ever crafted (like Dirty Horse). They were voted the best brewers in the world for a reason.
I second the sentiment on visiting all of the abbeys/trappists/etc. and De Dolle/Rodenbach. I would get as much of those as I could. Also, one of my personal favorites that you can get here but I assume would be better priced there is Caracole beers.
I'm sure someone actually from Belgium would be better versed on the subject.
and FYI you suck for the access to the beer ;-) j/k.
Don't forget to buy other European treasures not available here like Mikkeler Beer Geek Brunch One-for-One. Only 350 were made and sold in the immediate area. A friend of mine brought back two from Belgium. Anyway, point being to keep an eye out for other great beer too.
-JDZJ
Tempe, AZ
Sorry, my usual point :)
Go to Ratebeer and find the top Belgian beer list. Half of the top 50 is probably available in Texas (more expensive though), but the other half will be good beers, and rare as well. On Kulminator in Antwerpen you can find some of those other rare European beers.
If you're into lambik, make sure to check out the Weekend of Spontaneous Fermentation. I'm going this year. There will be all the regular lambiks and some amazing rarities.