European beers

[RizzoTheRat]

Much as I like a nice ale or cider, I have to say one of the main advantages of working in Holland for a few months is the range and price of European beers (plus the cheese and enormous beach). I'm a big fan of trappist and similar style beers and currently Kasteel Donker is one of my favorites (1.55 Euro in the local shop). Generally don't like lagers but tried one from a local brewpub the other weekend (Brauhaus de Hofner) and it was bloody lovely, and probably better suited to warm weather than the trappist beers.

Not a fan of wheat beers or hoppy IPA/APAs, but I'm thinking there's a lot of good stuff around I should be trying.

So given that this is the beer menu from a local bar, what do people recommend?

[C0ffin D0dger]

Holy cow, that is some beer menu.

I recommend that you try all of them and report back to us

[andburg]

Can't see the menu....must be blocked at work but my preference is to try everything!

Love Belgian beer, dutch beers are mainly in similar styles

[andburg]

OK...swapped proxy server

couple of recomendations

La Trappe range very similar in style to the vrious kasteel options
Averbode - nice clean tasting
Pauwel Kwak - lovely rich amber beer

[feef]

Of the ones I know on that list, I'd go with

La Chouffe
Delerium Nocturnum
Affligem

[RizzoTheRat]

andburg said:

OK...swapped proxy server

couple of recomendations

La Trappe range very similar in style to the vrious kasteel options
Averbode - nice clean tasting
Pauwel Kwak - lovely rich amber beer

Big fan of Kwak (especially in the proper glass) as well as La Trappe Trippel and Quadrouple (again around 1.50 in the shops here, I'm guessing a fiver or a so a bottle in the UK), so I'll trust your recommendation and give the Averbode a try

feef said:

Of the ones I know on that list, I'd go with

La Chouffe
Delerium Nocturnum
Affligem

Similarly I like Le Chouffe and Affligem Double and Tripel but not tried the Delerium Nocturnum so will have to try that

[captainzep]

RizzoTheRat said:

andburg said:

OK...swapped proxy server

couple of recomendations

La Trappe range very similar in style to the vrious kasteel options
Averbode - nice clean tasting
Pauwel Kwak - lovely rich amber beer

Big fan of Kwak (especially in the proper glass)

Another major Kwak fan here, although possibly not on a hot summer's day.

-fk it, I'd drink Kwak anytime.

[Bodged]

Start on the top left and work your way down to the bottom right

[andburg]

captainzep said:

RizzoTheRat said:

andburg said:

OK...swapped proxy server

couple of recomendations

La Trappe range very similar in style to the vrious kasteel options
Averbode - nice clean tasting
Pauwel Kwak - lovely rich amber beer

Big fan of Kwak (especially in the proper glass)

Another major Kwak fan here, although possibly not on a hot summer's day.

-fk it, I'd drink Kwak anytime.

For those who cant get accross to buy it cheap, www.belgianbeerfacory.com and get it shipped nice and cheap...far cheaper than the £3.00+ per bottle you'll pay over here. 42.50 for 24 bottles and 7.50 to ship up to 48 bottles so 92.5 Euros for 48..I like Kwak!

I own 2 standalone glasses and 2 regular glasses but a 4banger and a giant are on my list!

[C0ffin D0dger]

andburg said:

For those who cant get accross to buy it cheap, www.belgianbeerfacory.com and get it shipped nice and cheap...far cheaper than the £3.00+ per bottle you'll pay over here. 42.50 for 24 bottles and 7.50 to ship up to 48 bottles so 92.5 Euros for 48..I like Kwak!

I own 2 standalone glasses and 2 regular glasses but a 4banger and a giant are on my list!

Don't know if they've improved at all but I got my beer eventually last time I ordered. Needed a bit of prompting though. That said you can't argue about the value, got a case of Rochefort 10 for Christmas last year comes in around £4 over here, 3 Euros on that site.

[vournikas]

The pic makes it difficult to make out the contents, but I suspect it'll have some of my continental favourites on there like:-

Kwak Pauwel
Kasteel Rouge
Rodenbach Grand Cru
St. Bernadus (Blue Label)

[RizzoTheRat]

Dunno if the forum's shrinking it http://i.imgur.com/wjMC3kR.jpg


I wasn't that taken with the Kasteel Rouge to be honest, but love Kwak and the St Bernadus are generally pretty good. Which one's the blue? I think they're labelled as 6, 8, 10 and 12 over here.

Not tried the Grand Cru, I'll add that the list.


Quite impressed that all the posters so far seem to have similar tastes to me

[Rosscow]

Personally, I'd start with ticking everything off the list that is under 5.5%

The stronger ones would fk me up!!!!

[RizzoTheRat]

Sadly my favourite beers all seem to be strong ones, they still fk me up but they taste so good Bit of a pain when going out with workmates for a few beers though, my boss drinks Heineken so there's no way I'm going to try and keep up on rounds

[DavesFlaps]

I see they have Rochefort 10 on the menu.

One of my favourites.

Do it.

[RizzoTheRat]

Well this is my local shop. They'd run out if Rochefort 10 so I got an 8 instead, plus a Chimay Blue and a St Bernadus 12 (blue label so presumably the one referred to earlier) which I had last night and it was lovely.

Just to rub it in for those of you having to buy mail order they ranged in price from €1.55 to €2.09

[IanCress]

Spent a bit of time in Germany a fewer years ago, and you tend to find that the petrol stations there have a better selection of beers than the off-licences in England!

[andburg]

Tbf I'm used to prices in Belgian supermarkets where a bottle of kwak is usually no more than 1.10 so yours is expensive lol

[Blown2CV]

for me it has to be gueuze

[feef]

I'm less than an hour away from http://www.beersofeurope.co.uk/ but they do delivery too, so well worth a look