Session # 197 De Struise | Black Damnation IV Imperial Stout | Oostvleteren, Belgium | 13% ABV One year ago: Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout When a stout coming from Belgium clocks in at 13% you know you’re going to get something massive. That’s just exactly what I got from this iteration of the great Black [...]
Archive for the ‘Belgium’ Category
29 Aug
Fantôme Printemps
Session # 195 Fantôme | Printemps Saison / Farmhouse Ale | Soy, Belgium | 8% ABV One year ago: Craft Beer Paintings The last time Tim and I got together to review a Fantôme beer, the results were worse than what we’d hoped. Upon opening their flagship Saison (reviewed here), we couldn’t help but call [...]
30 Jun
Urthel Saisonnière
Session # 181 Urthel | Saisonnière Saison / Farmhouse Ale | Ruiselede, Belgium| 6% ABV One year ago: Kuhnhenn Olde Brune Seeing other beer geeks being very passionate about a beer can prompt you to go right out and buy it. A new acquaintance of mine, Jay Hinman, from Hedonist Jive, gave this beer a [...]
25 May
Cantillon Classic Gueuze
Session # 175 Cantillon | Classic Gueuze Gueuze | Brussels, Belgium | 5% ABV One year ago: Lost Abbey Angel’s Share (Bourbon) There are lots of sours out there, and there are lots of sub-styles of sours. The most intense of them is the Gueuze, a blend of three different years of Lambics. For those [...]
25 Apr
Oerbier Special Reserva
Session # 165 De Dolle | Oerbier Special Reserva Flanders Oud Bruin | Esen, Belgian | 13% ABV One year ago: Mikkeller 1000 IBU Belgium rarely releases anything as strong as some of America’s most extreme offerings. But when I read on the bottle of the De Dolle Oerbier Special Reserva that it was a [...]
