Which Belgian ale should I drink first?

anyone who has a choice of belgian beers and chooses chimay is a disgusting savage fyi

In Beijing the choices were Hoegaarden and Chimay Blue.

lol, you have found the exception

It's a completionist thing

Drinking my way down the trappist list

Chimay blanche is not that great, but found it to be better than the other three

I was in Brussels a couple of weeks ago and people out were drinking Chimay Bleue, I dunno, it seems very good to me, but this is an ILX beer thread, of course men are gonna snob out

a buddy in atlanta told me he pays $12 a bottle for Rochefort 10, dang usa. in Paris it's pretty much the same price as in Brussels (take that brexiteers)

5.99 in mpls

nice. this last trip was my first time "getting" Belgian beers, probably b/c I stuck to trappist beers rather than the fruity ones I knew before. not coincidentally it was the first time I had fun in Belgium.

people there said I gotta try Westvleteren 12 but in bars in Brussels it was like 12 euros a bottle so I stuck with Westmalle and Rochefort.

Better tell the brewer that, they refer to it as a "barley wine" (and a tripel tbf) on their description page:
https://www.vansteenberge.com/en/our-beer/gulden-draak/gulden-draak/

yeah it's a tripel with a Bordeaux pitch in secondary. If you would have it side by side with JW Lees you would not consider them to be in the same style at all.

most results are only for the triple hop not the triple hop dry hopped, which isn't even on their official website you dipshit

It's the same beer, just with import labeling.

Also come to los angeles. There's a beer in a back alley with your name on it

i didn't want to meet you then

now i do

wow, sounds romantic

just wanna spike your kool aid man with bud light

yeah it's a tripel with a Bordeaux pitch in secondary. If you would have it side by side with JW Lees you would not consider them to be in the same style at all.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, May 2, 2017 9:16 AM (forty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this type of nitpicking is ridiculous btw

i mean even bjcp can't categorize this perfectly into one style, but coming in here writing "lol no" about what style a beer like gulden draak is just deserves a good old fashion beating

in 2008 bjcp considered it a belgian dark strong ale https://www.bjcp.org/2008styles/style18.php#1e

fast forward to 2015 and you get https://www.bjcp.org/docs/2015_Guidelines_Beer.pdf

page 53

i like that they put that each brewery has its own unique characteristic

Tried gulden draak. It's very good but

Is it me or is westmalle tripel ale sexual

Augustijn ale is just okay

Just about every Tripel I've had is fairly aphrodisiac by the end

Two bottles in on Chimay Bleue - first time having it - and am floating :)))

oiiiiii that’s the stuff :-)

Jelly.

anyone who has a choice of belgian beers and chooses chimay is a disgusting savage fyi

― imago, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 11:20 (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

literally belgian beer 101. belgian coors. belgian budweiser

powerful snob energy so sorry

Except the 'Belgian' part cancels out the Coors and Budweiser, sorry.

wouldn't Jupiler be the Belgian Coors?

have no recollection of drinking Chimary tbh. Rochefort 10 for me thanks

Aye, that's a pretty naive take. Stella/Jupiler are for sure the prominent macro lagers in BE.

(xp: to imago)

St Bernardus Abt 12 thank u

I'll take Stella & Jupiler over Coors & Budweiser, hands down. Mentioning Chimay in the same breath is performative af.

obviously chimay isn't literally a mass-market lager but cmon it is as basic as 'proper' belgian ale gets

stella and jupiler literally do not figure in my ideation of anything involving belgium and beer

That's true, but it's proof positive that basic can be good not bad when done right.

xp

that sweet massaman gai posting to the what are you listening to thread energy

lol

just been drinking an ostbuigrinzvlet 283 special reduction, only 3 bottles brewed

Chimay is pretty basic Belgian beer, sure, but Chimay Blue is still, well not top-tier, but second-tier anyway.

captaine jay vee's transcendent experience has not been ruined by my dreadful messageboard grousing, we may be assured

Tbc my 'jelly' was less 'omg I wish I could get my hands on that priceless ambrosia' and more 'ten Dry January days to go... a Chimay would really hit the spot right now'. 'Second-tier' is correct.

i haven't had a proper belgian beer in months. months! i'd like to pretend a Duvel will do but really fuck it I just want Cantillon

No, this cheap swill has not been ruined for me, merci bien. It’s doin’ the damn thing until my fave local Belgian beer bar re-opens in the (near?) future, alcohol gods willing.

And, yeah, I hit the St Bernardus when I’m there :)

that is the one brew that people can successfully bribe me to do things with