NB Gulden Draak is a barleywine style
lol no
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 04:36 (seven years ago) link
I'll keep an eye out for it but ratebeer says it's not available in los angeles
check out Whole Foods or any beer store
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 04:41 (seven years ago) link
Maybe a mod should rename this thread Which Beer Googler should I FP at will?
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 04:43 (seven years ago) link
Albert
Did you bother clicking through those links that google sent you to? They provide very little info and most results are only for the triple hop not the triple hop dry hopped, which isn't even on their official website you dipshit
Also come to los angeles. There's a beer in a back alley with your name on it
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 05:16 (seven years ago) link
Aww, you missed me tho:Beer in the new era
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 05:24 (seven years ago) link
i didn't want to meet you then
now i do
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 05:26 (seven years ago) link
People, people, beer should be bringing us together, not tearing us apart!
― nickn, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 06:14 (seven years ago) link
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 11:17 (seven years ago) link
anyone who has a choice of belgian beers and chooses chimay is a disgusting savage fyi
― imago, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 11:20 (seven years ago) link
In Beijing the choices were Hoegaarden and Chimay Blue.
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 11:26 (seven years ago) link
lol, you have found the exception
― imago, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 11:30 (seven years ago) link
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 n f i n i t y (∞), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 13:10 (seven years ago) link
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)
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 15:34 (seven years ago) link
5.99 in mpls
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 15:37 (seven years ago) link
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.
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 15:45 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 16:16 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 16:20 (seven years ago) link
Also come to los angeles. There's a beer in a back alley with your name on iti didn't want to meet you thennow i do
wow, sounds romantic
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 16:22 (seven years ago) link
just wanna spike your kool aid man with bud light
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 16:34 (seven years ago) link
― 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
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 17:09 (seven years ago) link
Tried gulden draak. It's very good but
Is it me or is westmalle tripel ale sexual
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Saturday, 10 June 2017 02:32 (seven years ago) link
Augustijn ale is just okay
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Saturday, 10 June 2017 02:59 (seven years ago) link
Just about every Tripel I've had is fairly aphrodisiac by the end
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 10 June 2017 05:49 (seven years ago) link
Two bottles in on Chimay Bleue - first time having it - and am floating :)))
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 21 January 2021 19:33 (three years ago) link
oiiiiii that’s the stuff :-)
― brimstead, Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:22 (three years ago) link
Jelly.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:24 (three years ago) link
― imago, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 11:20 (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― imago, Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:30 (three years ago) link
literally belgian beer 101. belgian coors. belgian budweiser
powerful snob energy so sorry
― imago, Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:31 (three years ago) link
Except the 'Belgian' part cancels out the Coors and Budweiser, sorry.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:32 (three years ago) link
wouldn't Jupiler be the Belgian Coors?
have no recollection of drinking Chimary tbh. Rochefort 10 for me thanks
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:38 (three years ago) link
Aye, that's a pretty naive take. Stella/Jupiler are for sure the prominent macro lagers in BE.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link
(xp: to imago)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:44 (three years ago) link
St Bernardus Abt 12 thank u
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:45 (three years ago) link
I'll take Stella & Jupiler over Coors & Budweiser, hands down. Mentioning Chimay in the same breath is performative af.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:48 (three years ago) link
obviously chimay isn't literally a mass-market lager but cmon it is as basic as 'proper' belgian ale gets
― imago, Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:50 (three years ago) link
stella and jupiler literally do not figure in my ideation of anything involving belgium and beer
― imago, Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:51 (three years ago) link
That's true, but it's proof positive that basic can be good not bad when done right.
xp
― pomenitul, Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:52 (three years ago) link
that sweet massaman gai posting to the what are you listening to thread energy
― imago, Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:52 (three years ago) link
lol
just been drinking an ostbuigrinzvlet 283 special reduction, only 3 bottles brewed
― imago, Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:55 (three years ago) link
Chimay is pretty basic Belgian beer, sure, but Chimay Blue is still, well not top-tier, but second-tier anyway.
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link
captaine jay vee's transcendent experience has not been ruined by my dreadful messageboard grousing, we may be assured
― imago, Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:58 (three years ago) link
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.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 21 January 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link
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
― imago, Thursday, 21 January 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
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.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 21 January 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link
And, yeah, I hit the St Bernardus when I’m there :)
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 21 January 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
that is the one brew that people can successfully bribe me to do things with
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 January 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link