I think Belgian beer is the best beer.

name one chocolate beer from Belgium

Beer is the best beer.

Free beer is even better.

Best beer *and* best chocolates!

I have been drinking a Belgian-style beer called Blue Moon. It's excellent!

Blue Moon is a Coors product, and served with orange slices... what's up with that?

tss tss

st. bernardus abt 12

corsendonk

I'm gonna check that one out too. Thanks Nikki!

(I'm going to have to join a gym after all this Belgian beer tasting.)

[link to www.newbelgium.com] <One of My Fav Beers

It comes in Champagne bottles and is strong as wine.

Yuengling - Best beer and a great price since I live near a brewery.

OOOh what fun!!!

I'm in south jersey and yuengling is our standard every day beer. I agree it's awesome.

added to list. thanks!

on sale beer is good to

Schlitz
Busch
Old mills
south paw

I actually can't stand that weird fruity, clove-y taste you find in a lot of Belgian beer. Give me an honest Latvian alus or German bock any day.

Or a Bud Lite if I'm just thirsty.

I'm going to visit a brewery tomorrow :P

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My favourites you have probably never heard about because they are for local market only.

Rulles estivale
Quintine
Hopus
Moinette


Some friends even invested in brewing equipment and we are making our own now :)


Also you can never be wrong with a trappist:

Westvleteren
Westmalle
Orval
Rochefort

here's a little starter list...


trappists only, no particular order, all extremely tastie!

Westvleteren 12 - [link to www.westvleteren12.com]

Rochefort (8, 10 or 12) - [link to beeradvocate.com]

Westmalle Dubbel - [link to www.trappistwestmalle.be]

Chimay Blue - [link to www.chimay.com]

Orval - [link to www.orval.be]



and here is a great source for searching out some great Belgium beers as well as others...


happy beer hunting!

[link to www.beerplanet.eu]

After you've tasted other ales than the typical Belgian abbey beers, and then especially the US and Scandinavian imperial stouts, double IPA's, sour ales, barley wines etc., than those Belgian beers become boring to you. Of course, Rochefort 10, Orval and Westvleteren 12 still stay marvelous (and of course there are others) but most of them won't please you anymore. Did I mention Struise? Best brewery in Belgium, very creative, very tasty and high quality. Alvinne and Dolle Brouwers are in the top league too, with the other 3 Trappist breweries mentioned before.

Try to find some Scandi brews by Mikkeller, Nøgne Ø, Närke or Midtfyns. Or some US brews by Great Divide, Founders, Bells, Three Floyds, Russian River, AleSmith etc. etc. [link to www.ratebeer.com] is a great guide.

Last Edited by R... on 09/24/2010 01:51 PM

Sorry, you've just disqualified yourself from a serious discussion about beer.

btw; underestimated BE brews are from Malheur. Their '12' and Noir Brut are fantastic.

Ever tasted a good Geuze, from 3 Fonteinen or Cantillon for example? You won't know what hit you...a sour citric champagne-like beer, very special. It's a very special brewing process, only executed in a small part of Belgium.

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"I think it's interesting that the beer department in any store is one of the few things in life that's openly ordered in a honest social spectrum.

Start at one side, and you've got your bottom-feeder beers like Wiedeman, Falls City, Busch, Milwaukee's Best, and other such undrinkable swill. The light beers tend to gravitate to this end of the aisle as well. (Why would anyone pay money for Milwaukee's Best Light when you might as well drop a hot dog bun in a glass of water for ten minutes and you'd have the same thing? But I digress.)

In the midrange area, there's beers of low-to-medium quality like Icehouse, Michelob, etc. This is the cutoff point for me. In general, I can't drink any beer any lower on the evolutionary chain than Michelob. Anything to the left of that in the beer aisle is piss. Not that I'd ever walk out of a package store with any of that junk anyway - I'm talkin' like if I walked into a diner and the only beer they had was Michelob, I'd drink it. If the only beer they had was Coors, I'd say forget it, give me a Coke or something."

It's not my fault you're not sophisticated enough to realize that my comment was a jab against Bud Lite, not singing its praises.

Unless I'm just thirsty...

Last Edited by The Guy on 09/24/2010 02:02 PM

Give me a little Heiny and I'm good to go!

I like Old Rasputin Imperial Stout the besty-est

I don't think sophistication means being able to read your mind. If you think your comment about Bud Lite was obvious sarcasm, then you might wanna rethink your communication skills. What's obvious to you isn't so obvious to others.

What I also find fantastic about Belgian beers, is that almost each beer/brewery has it's unique glass. I don't know if it's something you can find in other countries, but here you will almost never get your beer served in the wrong glass.

Yep. If I get a Belgian served in the wrong glass, I send it back.

Brewed only for those with a discriminating palate and deep pockets.

Delirium Tremens Belgium Ale

Elected as Best Beer in the World - According to Stuart Kallen - The 50 Greatest Beers in the World: The name Delirium Tremens speaks for itself. The color is golden and the head is creamy and light. The aftertaste is fruity, almost cherry. Delirium Tremens has a big body, a rich mouth feel, and a long, sweet aftertaste.

x 2 on the Leffe

Here's the remedy for 'ALL (belgium) BOTTLES'


SPRINKLE THE CELTIC ROCK SALT IN THEM AND WATCH TMEM COME TO LIFE...ITS POSITIVELY ALCHEMICAL