living beers?
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 8 June 2009 01:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I don't know what that means. I hope it isn't like "The Stuff".
― xhuxkfactor (los blue jeans), Monday, 8 June 2009 01:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Get the Gulden Draak out the way first, with a name like that it's bound to be a disappointment, also it will make you warm and fuzzy inside in no time
― the England guy that throws the balls (country matters), Monday, 8 June 2009 01:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Westmalle
― ljubljana, Monday, 8 June 2009 01:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Unfortunately, not in the box. However I will take your recommendation into account.
― xhuxkfactor (los blue jeans), Monday, 8 June 2009 01:57 (fifteen years ago) link
OK, I think the "living beer" means that they undergo a second fermentation in the bottle.
― xhuxkfactor (los blue jeans), Monday, 8 June 2009 01:58 (fifteen years ago) link
clearly piraat, i mean just look at it
― Maria, Monday, 8 June 2009 02:09 (fifteen years ago) link
― xhuxkfactor (los blue jeans), Sunday, June 7, 2009 8:58 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark
this is correct
― mark cl, Monday, 8 June 2009 02:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Maria, I can't say that I disagree with your logic. However, I might decide to "work my way up" to the Piraat. My theory was that I would kinda sip some of this, sip some of that, then BAM hit up that Pirate shit.Also I might live blarg this if people are interested (as reflected in the number of votes).
― xhuxkfactor (los blue jeans), Monday, 8 June 2009 02:38 (fifteen years ago) link
i'd like you to liveblarg it. I am not a fan of Belgian beers generally, but since I have never had any of these particular beers, I'm curious.
― ian, Monday, 8 June 2009 02:39 (fifteen years ago) link
By the will of ian it will be done.
― xhuxkfactor (los blue jeans), Monday, 8 June 2009 02:43 (fifteen years ago) link
is it okay for vegans to drink living beers?
― casual racism fridays (bug), Monday, 8 June 2009 03:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Perhaps due to hivemind sentiment there was a miniFAP in LA today where many Belgian brews were quaffed. Sadly the exact names escape me.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 June 2009 03:06 (fifteen years ago) link
unless yeast is now an animal, I would imagine cask/bottle conditioned beers are fine for vegans to drink
― Dr. Johnson (askance johnson), Monday, 8 June 2009 03:08 (fifteen years ago) link
YES!!! I'm part of the hive!!! Thanks guys it was all worth it.
― xhuxkfactor (los blue jeans), Monday, 8 June 2009 03:10 (fifteen years ago) link
One of us. Of course it would have been better had you been here drinking with us but no matter.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 June 2009 03:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Duchesse De BourgogneKwakKoningshoven Quadrupel (actually from the Netherlands)
― linda emangalitsa (get bent), Monday, 8 June 2009 03:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah thank you.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 June 2009 03:12 (fifteen years ago) link
my favorite was the duchesse, but i'm fruity like that.
― linda emangalitsa (get bent), Monday, 8 June 2009 03:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Is Kwak good with Quark (cheese)?
― xhuxkfactor (los blue jeans), Monday, 8 June 2009 03:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Hmm we had ours with sausages so I can't say.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 June 2009 03:15 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost - i have no answer to that. btw i voted for bruegel.
― linda emangalitsa (get bent), Monday, 8 June 2009 03:16 (fifteen years ago) link
And the Duchesse was indeed mighty fine and mighty fruity. Heck of a way to start the get-together.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 June 2009 03:16 (fifteen years ago) link
ugh kwak
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 8 June 2009 03:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Hahah you need to read the eatig while drunk thread if you haven't already.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 June 2009 03:18 (fifteen years ago) link
steampunk beer.
― ian, Monday, 8 June 2009 03:20 (fifteen years ago) link
It's all in the glass design. As admrl almost discovered to his detriment.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 June 2009 03:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Re: poll - Do you want to keep the best for last?
― StanM, Monday, 8 June 2009 04:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, maybe. I want to have the best overall experience, which might entail drinking the highest rated beer in the middle of the session.
― xhuxkfactor (los blue jeans), Monday, 8 June 2009 04:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Gee, there really is nothing that will suck all the joy out of something like trying to quantify it.
― xhuxkfactor (los blue jeans), Monday, 8 June 2009 04:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Gulden Draak is one of my favorite Belgians, but the only other one of these I've had is the Piraat, and I don't remember how it ranked. Maybe go from lowest alcohol to highest? I'd save the GD for last.
― nickn, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 00:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah I had to drink Kwak because "max drunk kwak" or some shit...
;)
― admrl, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 01:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I've only had Gulden Draak and Piraat, but I would favor the former out of those two, I think. We have a bar here that has at least a few Belgians on tap at all times and a bunch in bottles, and all I've really learned is that drinking a lot of the stuff is a good way to feel woozy.
― mh, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 01:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Sorry for not liveblarging. BTW I don't know much about beers, for the first 8 years after I turned 21 I think I had about 4-5 beers a year (not much of a drinker). It is only in the last year that I have started to throw back the brewskis after work or whatever. My favorite beer so far is a dunkelweiss (forget the brand) that I had in Germany last November, but that had a bit of a halo effect since it was during a vacation after a really long year. (feel free to lol at me going on hols in Germany in November)
Results so far: Bruegel - Kinda bland, not bad but didn't seem worth the bother to import itGulden Draak - Really strong alcohol taste, like someone put a shot of JD in the beer. Would not get again.Augustijn - I forget. I don't think it was that great though.Bornem Triple - Not too bad, but not exactly nectar of the gods or anything.
― some of the greatest artists ever are bland (los blue jeans), Sunday, 21 June 2009 02:38 (fifteen years ago) link
DRINKING RIGHT NOW:PiraatBit of a light amber color, a bit yellow. Has the same yeasty flavor that all of these beers have. Despite a deep fondness for leavened bread, I can't really say that I like these yeasty beers. I also prefer a bit more carbonation than this beer has. Kind of a smooth bittersweetness to the beer overall, without the overpowering alcohol of Gulden Draak. Probably my favorite so far of all these, I would possibly get it again.
― some of the greatest artists ever are bland (los blue jeans), Sunday, 21 June 2009 02:52 (fifteen years ago) link
A lot of Belgian beers just turn my stomach. I love other beer, btw.
― the fantasy-life of nations has consequences in the real worl (fields of salmon), Sunday, 21 June 2009 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
mmmmmDuchesse = desert island territory, for me. i love that sweet&sour-y, lactic, gastrique thing it brings
― outdoor_miner, Sunday, 21 June 2009 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link
St Bernardus Abt 12 is my fukkin jam.
― Neanderthal, Monday, 5 December 2016 22:29 (seven years ago) link
ever had a rochefort? that's where you go next iirc. that or orval
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Monday, 5 December 2016 22:31 (seven years ago) link
or a delirium
chimay
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Monday, 5 December 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link
i find chimay quite dull but you should probably not listen to me, i'm ruined by lambics
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Monday, 5 December 2016 22:35 (seven years ago) link
i just noted its absence in this thread as it is good and widely available. im not remotely a maven of belgian beers.
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Monday, 5 December 2016 22:38 (seven years ago) link
bought a big'un of Gulden Draak for the bottle alone, it was damn good
― frogbs, Monday, 5 December 2016 22:39 (seven years ago) link
made a rabbit stew with westmalle recently - the beer was very nice as accompaniment too.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 5 December 2016 22:39 (seven years ago) link
rochefort 10 is all-time. orval is great but not similar at all
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 5 December 2016 22:40 (seven years ago) link
I tried rochefort 6 and was surprisingly disappointed as everyone raves about them
I know they get progressively stronger so I still have my hopes up for 8 and 10
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 5 December 2016 22:47 (seven years ago) link
I also recommend Monk's Cafe Flemish Sour Ale if you like the sour type. It's not aggressively sour like Cuvee de Jacobins.
― nickn, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 03:40 (seven years ago) link
i had a piraat triple hop dry hopped, which i couldn't find info for on the web
About 13,200 results (0.47 seconds)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 04:33 (seven years ago) link
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