In a beautiful historic Brussels café. La Fleur en Papier Doré with excellent De la Senne Stouterik in the glass. A great beer in a great bar. Very happy.
Well this is interesting. The only Trappist brewery in the UK have produced a Blond beer. Tynt Meadow Blond is a very drinkable pale ale style beer with a zingy bitter taste throughout, hint of pepper (English hops?) and a very nice dry & bitter end. Very drinkable & refreshing.
A UK Belgian beer bar that outclasses many Belgian bars - welcome to
@TripelbC
. Step inside and you feel you are in Belgium. A beer list of seriously class 🇧🇪 breweries. Genuine Belgian bar food. Highly recommended if you are near Worcester.
Celebrating Belgian bars reopening today with 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪 beer number 6. A superb Rochefort 10. Stunningly good. No more needs to be said except World Class.
Very sad news today, at Grote Dorst, I learnt that one of the giants of the lambic world - Armand De Belder has passed away after a long illness. My condolences to his family, his colleagues and his many friends. He will be missed.
Had to be done. Russian River Pliny the Elder airfreighted to Cantillon. Served at Moeder Lambic Fontainas in superb condition. A beer that deserves the hype. Now on my 2nd glass.
Really enjoyed my 4 hour visit to Westmalle Abbey & brewery today. Visited both old and new brew houses. Very impressive setup with lots of modern technology. 120,000 HL per year.
Back in UK after 2 months. 2 wks in beautiful Gozo & Malta & 6 wks in Belgium. Fantastic trip. Achieved my aim of exploring smaller towns in Flanders,lots of great discoveries. Burnt through huge chunk of my 90 day EU allowance but woth it. Last 2 beers were fittingly favourites
Day out in Manchester today. First stop is the beautiful
@ThePeveril
and a pint of
@TimothyTaylors
Landlord in tip top condition. So good I stopped for another one. An excellent start.
At Grote Dorst today. To salute Armand De Belder who passed away today Kurt opened a bottle of De Neve Gueuze from 1989. Pictured with our Italian friends - raising a glass to him.
After visiting a few favourite Brussels watering holes. I ended at Booze & Blues. Great atmosphere Tried most draft beers but ended on extremely enjoyable De La Senne Coucou Puissant at a mere 9.5% this is on the hoppy blonde-amber spectrum. More bitter than sweet. Lovely🍻
Love it. Get bartenders attention. They bring you the beer you were about to order before you order it. Think they might know me here. Great beer. Great bar.
Over the next few days I will be drinking some of the gueuze bottles I have been ageing. Today it's a Girardin bottled 7 years and 3 months ago. It is amazingly good. Mellow and rounded with deep complexity. My patience has been rewarded.
I'm back. This is the first day I was allowed to enter the EU again, so here I am back in 🇧🇪. And at a Cantillon undergoing serious modifications. Glasses of lambic and gueuze to start of course and tasting great.
After touring Orval Brewery went to the À L'Ange Gardien and drank quite a few glasses of the Orval Vert. What a great hoppy pale ale this is. Ate young, beer infused and old Orval cheese & the local trout was also great.
De Dolle Stille Nact research. 2023 editions. Batch * vs batch ***. Both fantastic. But batch *** is richer and with deeper stonefruit tastes, simply glorious.
Extremely pleased to report that the wonderful La Fleur en Papier Doré in Brussels has reopened. Much reduced beer menu & no food but you can bring your own. Open 8am to midnight every day. What a pleasure it is to drink here again. Saison is from
@bierenderanke
& very good.
The
@thornbridge
Union Jaipur brewed on the newly installed Burton Union sets is tasting fantastic
@HeatonHops
. Softer, more rounded less bitter upfront but with a lovely bitterness developing in the aftetertaste. It's recognisably Jaipur but with a distinctive difference.
Cantillon Public Brew Day has ended. The wort is in the coolship waiting for inoculation overnight. Our bottle share has also ended (there were 4 of us I hassen to add). A great day enjoyed.
This place is a time warp in more than ways than one. Time just seems to vanish here. If you want to loose a few hours of your life drinking excellent beers in a fantastic place - this is one of them. Le Fleur en Papier Dore.
Last 4 beers in Brussels in one of my favourite bars. This was such a great Belgium trip. Great experiences beer wise but more about meeting & talking to friends from 20 plus countries on 6 continents. I will remember my friends more than the beers I think. Beer and friendship 👍