Belgium Beer Travels

So, I live in the Middle East and can't really brew for fear of deportation or jail and, thus, I haven't been active (barring one sad drunken night of posting a "miss you guys" post somewhere on here) on HBT in quite a while.

I do, however, get to travel a ****load and it struck me in Belgium last week that I could at least share my beer travels with you guys. I can't believe it took me this long to think to post like this.


Found a great store in Brussels called Beer Mania and made some purchases. The dusty one is a Maredsous 10% from 1997! I shipped some back to the States before I left, to cellar.


Gypsy Rose Tripel


The Wipers Times by De Kazematten


Sorry, not beer, for my fellow IT engineers...


Bersalis Tripel by Oud Beersel (popular in Brussels)


Geuze Tilquin, a mixture of 3 aged Lambics. This was at Moeder Lambic, a really nice beer bar in Brussels. If you're ever there, I highly suggest it.


De Ranke Saison (I think...)


Started to get fuzzy here, should have taken notes. I believe this is a beer aptly name Atomium from the UK. Really good.

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De Dochter Belle Fleur Belgian IPA. High hopped beers are invading Belgium.


La Cambre Blonde


Food/beer pr0n


Went to Delirium Cafe... SWMBO and I were not impressed. It was for young, college aged tourists. I would have liked it when I was 20.


Grimbergen Wit


Rochefort Tripel. Always good.


Bar de Garre in Bruges. What an awesome bar. Amazing beer selection, amazing staff, perfect setting.


Their house beer, a double.


Slaapmutske Bruin. Amazing.


Bruges Zot Brune


Bruges Zot Blonde


Bruges Zot Pils with chips

The draught offerings at La Porte Noire. Awesome bar, really nice bartender.


Forestinne Primor


Grosse Bertha by Beer Project. A decent wheat beer.


Viven IIPA


Winterkoninkske by Kerkom. Awesome.


I opened the Maredsous on the last day. Amazing.


Jacob Bruin. Meh.

Unfortunately I caught a wicked sinus infection halfway through so I didn't get to drink as much/often as I was hoping to. I'll have to go back.

Nice pictures and beers, though you should never call patat frites "chips".

Chips are british, much bigger and served with vinegar.

Chips, fries, pommes, frites, doesn't matter my man... Lived in the UK and now a recently former British colony for quite a while. But, uh, thanks?

Kewl pics, love Belgium and its beers. Did a Beercation there on a barge and we hit at least a dozen breweries including a couple that featured Monks

Sheldon said:

Kewl pics, love Belgium and its beers. Did a Beercation there on a barge and we hit at least a dozen breweries including a couple that featured Monks

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Awesome. I really wanted to stay over night at a Trappist monastery/brewery, but when I started feeling sick I decided to stick to my hotel.

I'm jealous. The last time I made it to Europe was before I'd developed into a full-on beer geek. I tried a few things, but didn't really seek out anything obscure.

A beer tour of Belgium is definitely on my bucket list now.

Kharnynb said:

Nice pictures and beers, though you should never call patat frites "chips".

Chips are british, much bigger and served with vinegar.

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WTF? Just had to laugh at the trivial! Nice pics bro.

As a dutch person, and knowing a lot of belgians, they don't think that's trivial, it's like saying a stout's the same as an ipa.

Not meaning anything with it other than just a bit of trivia, the beer looked great and a nice list of beers there.

Cheers!

drainbamage said:

I'm jealous. The last time I made it to Europe was before I'd developed into a full-on beer geek. I tried a few things, but didn't really seek out anything obscure.

A beer tour of Belgium is definitely on my bucket list now.

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I'd say its worth the trip. Belgium has a lot to offer, both beer related and not. I've gotten to travel a lot since moving to the middle east (its one of the reasons I took the job) and Belgium, Brussels especially, was really cool.
You're just a train ride away from some other cool places, as well, like The Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, France.