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Dave Atkins

@daveratkins

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Appreciator of quality beer (all styles and methods of dispense) and quality food. Hill walker, Trekker and traveller of the world.

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Dave Atkins
11 months
Good Morning from Cantillon. Brew number 3 underway.
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Dave Atkins
8 months
Cantillon Public Brew Day. Barrel washing in progress.
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Dave Atkins
3 years
Brussels at its best.
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Dave Atkins
5 months
Perfection in a glass.
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Dave Atkins
11 months
A full Cantillon coolship. Awaiting the overnight magic of spontaneous fermentation.
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Dave Atkins
11 months
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.
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Dave Atkins
11 months
What a glorious beer this is.
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Dave Atkins
6 months
It's been a great day so finishing in style.
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Dave Atkins
1 year
Great place to end my last night in Brussels on this trip.
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Dave Atkins
8 months
Moved on to Antwerp. First stop was Kulminator. As usual great cellared old beers to be enjoyed here.
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Dave Atkins
2 years
Things getting a bit out of hand here.
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Dave Atkins
6 months
Arrived at today's destination.
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Dave Atkins
4 months
Ending my latest trip to 🇧🇪 in style
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Dave Atkins
10 months
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.
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Dave Atkins
3 years
Superb beer in a superb bar. A fitting way to end the day.
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Dave Atkins
1 year
One of the great joys of visiting Antwerp is to drink in the wonderful café that is Oud Arsenaal. Lovely atmosphere. Time slips by easily here.
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Dave Atkins
10 months
What a great beer this is.
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Dave Atkins
7 months
Happy Orval Day to you all.
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Dave Atkins
2 months
Now I know I am back in Brussels- great beer in a great bar.
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Dave Atkins
8 months
It's good to be back.
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Dave Atkins
2 months
Last beer on this 🇧🇪 visit had to be a classic in a classic bar.
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Dave Atkins
10 months
These are the drinks we will be seeing 2024 in with. Happy New Year to you all.
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Dave Atkins
4 months
And I'm back.
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Dave Atkins
6 months
Interesting tour of Orval Brewery today.
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Dave Atkins
2 years
Fantastic Orval, lovely age. Not out of a can 🙂
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Dave Atkins
2 years
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.
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Dave Atkins
4 months
Today ends in style.
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Dave Atkins
3 years
Celebrating Belgian bars reopening today with 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪 beer number 6. A superb Rochefort 10. Stunningly good. No more needs to be said except World Class.
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Dave Atkins
2 years
Christmas is coming.
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Dave Atkins
1 year
My quiet day in Cantillon has gone astray.
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Dave Atkins
3 years
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.
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Dave Atkins
1 year
Current situation.
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Dave Atkins
9 months
Very sad to read this news from @3Fonteinen . Hard times indeed for all breweries. Many of those affected by this are friends so I feel it deeply.
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Dave Atkins
1 month
My last beer of the night today was the lovely Brasserie de la Senne Stouterik in the beautiful La Fleur en Papier Doré.
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Dave Atkins
8 months
What a wonderful beer this is. Its in great condition @YeOldeVic
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Dave Atkins
5 months
Brunch at Cantillon.
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Dave Atkins
1 month
Orval 4.5 years old. Fantastic at this age.
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Dave Atkins
2 years
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.
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Dave Atkins
3 years
So somehow this happened. No regrets. Drinking a classic beer in a classic pub. What a fantastic day I have had.
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Dave Atkins
4 years
Bottle Wall at Cantillon at full capacity. What happens when you loose most of your customers.
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Dave Atkins
4 months
Well this is impressive. Chimay Grande Réserve fermented in Rhum barrels and bottled in February 2021. At 't Parlement in Halle
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Dave Atkins
1 year
Drinking lambic the traditional way.
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Dave Atkins
8 months
It's always annoying to miss your train by 1 minute. But in Belgium you can console yourself at the station café with a world class beer.
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Dave Atkins
7 months
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.
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Dave Atkins
7 months
Enjoying last few beers in Brussels before heading for Eurostar. Another superb trip around Belgium.
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Dave Atkins
3 years
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
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Dave Atkins
3 months
What a great beer to end the night on.
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Dave Atkins
6 months
How about this for a beer choice in a restaurant. Nüetnigenough.
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Dave Atkins
2 years
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.
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Dave Atkins
8 months
What a pleasure to be drinking great beers in two iconic Brussels bars again. La Fleur en Papier Doré and Poechenellekelder of course.
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Dave Atkins
1 year
Perfect drink on a hot summer day in Brussels.
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Dave Atkins
3 years
First stop today and first beer, a glass of Cantillon Gueuze......it tastes fantastic.
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Dave Atkins
1 year
Enjoying a 15 year old @3Fonteinen Oude Geuze Vintage 2008 in the sun at the Lambik-O-Droom
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Dave Atkins
1 year
Cantillon Gueuze ar 3.5 years old is a joy.
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Dave Atkins
4 months
And it's goodnight from me.
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Dave Atkins
3 years
Classic Brussels bar with Classic Brussels beer. Draught Zinnebir tasting 👌in La Fleur en Papier Dore.
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Dave Atkins
3 years
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.
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Dave Atkins
1 year
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🍻
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Dave Atkins
4 years
Cask Taras Boulba at GIST. Yes real cask. Wonderful absolutely fantastic. So good I immediately ordered another.
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Dave Atkins
3 years
Cantillon first brew of the season 21/22 underway. Currently sparging. Celebrating with a glass of freshly poured wort.
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Dave Atkins
3 years
Draft Taras Boulba tasting fantastic in the wonderful Pochenellekelder.
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Dave Atkins
11 months
A sure sign you are in for a quality beer drinking experience. At De Dolle Brouwers.
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Dave Atkins
1 year
Enjoying lambic in the sun at Grote Dorst.
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Dave Atkins
2 years
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.
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Dave Atkins
3 years
Morning View from my hotel room.
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Dave Atkins
20 days
It may be drizzle outside in Brussels but it's sunshine inside.
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Dave Atkins
1 year
Got to love a traditional Brussels bar.
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Dave Atkins
10 months
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.
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Dave Atkins
4 years
Christmas is coming.....
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Dave Atkins
8 months
Superior beer and cheese pairing at Nüetnigenough tonight.
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Dave Atkins
2 years
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.
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Dave Atkins
6 months
Good Zwanze Day Norning. 10am here and the Cantillon bar is full. There is a queue downstairs to get in! I am enjoying a Cantillon breakfast.
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Dave Atkins
1 year
Inevitably ended up in two of my favourite bars in Brussels. La Fleur en Papier Doré and Poechenellekelder. Goodnight.
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Dave Atkins
3 months
Garden beer. Bottled almost 8 years ago and tasting superb.
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Dave Atkins
3 years
Celebrating being back in my second home🇧🇪
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Dave Atkins
3 years
From the excellent to the sublime. This is a very pleasant way to end my first full day in Belgium. Especially as it's in one of my favourite bars.
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Dave Atkins
4 months
As usual @Harveys1790 Sussex Best is in great condition in the @harppub . Great beer in a great pub.
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Dave Atkins
4 months
Fantastic Orval. Almost 4 years old. A great age. A great beer.
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Dave Atkins
1 year
Been here many times but Antwerp Central train station ver ceases to impress me.
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Dave Atkins
11 months
What a great beer to end my night in Nüetnigenough tonight.
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Dave Atkins
6 months
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.
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Dave Atkins
1 year
Well that's a nice welcome to the bar.
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Dave Atkins
2 years
After a day celebrating lambic. Wonderful lambic at that. It's time for a nightcap in a favourite bar.
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Dave Atkins
2 years
Cantillon Bar has reached capacity. One in one out. And it's not even 11am.
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Dave Atkins
10 months
De Dolle Stille Nact research. 2023 editions. Batch * vs batch ***. Both fantastic. But batch *** is richer and with deeper stonefruit tastes, simply glorious.
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Dave Atkins
2 years
Almost 5 years in the bottle. Predictably fantastic.
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Dave Atkins
1 year
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.
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Dave Atkins
1 year
Possibly the last bar and beer of the night. Superb Rochefort 10 in the very historic Au Bon Vieux Temps.
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Dave Atkins
4 months
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.
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Dave Atkins
8 months
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.
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Dave Atkins
10 months
Last beer of the day. Of course this is fantastic. Happy Christmas Eve.
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Dave Atkins
6 months
And I'm back. And look at the choice.
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Dave Atkins
3 years
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.
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Dave Atkins
27 days
Love to sit in A La Becasse and admire the surroundings while sipping an excellent beer.
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Dave Atkins
1 year
Gone Kriek now. It's rather good.
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Dave Atkins
6 months
Pleased to be back with the Puppets.
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Dave Atkins
4 months
Waiting for Brugs Beertje to open. You can decide if @BonsVoeux1 is pretending to kick the door open or doing a John Cleese Ministry of Silly Walks.
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Dave Atkins
1 year
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 👍
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Dave Atkins
3 years
Got my favourite seat. 't Brugs Beertje. Cantillon 1 year lambic. Excellent.
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Dave Atkins
1 year
Last beer in Brussels this trip.
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