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@budgie:

out of curiosity I checked their current selection, slightly more than I'd remembered. What's your choice here?...



Cherry Chouffe Fruit Beer

Kasteel Rubus Framboise Fruit Beer

Chimay Grande Réserve (Blue) Belgian Strong Dark Ale

Straffe Hendrik Brugs Quadrupel Bier 11° Belgian Quadrupel

Pauwel Kwak Pale - Belgian

Delirium Red Fruit Beer

Delirium Tremens Belgian Strong Golden Ale

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wow what a seriously cool selection id love to try the cherry chouffe

chimay blue is old faithful though

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I do remember Chimay blue being very nice. I've only had that, Kwak and Delirium (golden) from the above. I preferred the darker delirium if I'm recalling things correctly

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I almost forgot there are two bars, so as well as a couple of the above x2, they also have these (the two places are less than 3 mins walk from one another)...



Abt 12 Belgian Quadrupel Brouwerij St.Bernardus

Wit Wheat Beer - Witbier Brouwerij St.Bernardus

Kasteel Rouge Fruit Beer

La Chouffe Blonde Belgian Strong Golden Ale



is that the La Chouffe you would normally drink budgie?

wait we're talking chimay blue and Kwak and Delirium in this thread? I lived in Belgium for 10 years man, that brings me back!

If any of you guys ever travel to Brussels you have to go to the bar Delirium. The world's largest assortment of beers out of any bar. Tip is to go there and just ask for 5 random beers and see what you get. I think they still have that as a beer-tasting option (it's not five pints guys..).

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yea demon la chouffe blond is my #2 favorite beer



(#1 is morgane from brasserie lancelot in brittany)



that is super awesome osmark

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delirium is a go-to in brussels yeah [∞]



chouffe on tap is delish



"Chimay Grande Réserve (Blue)" yo sounds crazy good never had a grande reserve one

Belgian beer is great - a quad done right is amazing, like Bernardus Abt 12 or Westvleteren XII. Delirium Tremens is a classic (not a huge fan of Nocturnum), Rochefort 6, 8, and 10 are all dandy, Orval is one of the most unique beers out there (if you can find it fresh on shelves, sometimes a challenge in the US).

But y'all are missing the single greatest thing the Belgians have given us. Lambic.

If I could only ever drink one style of beer for the rest of my life, it would be lambic (gueuze, more specifically, but I wouldn't complain either way). The problem is, the "good stuff" 1. doesn't often make it to US shelves, and 2. if it does, it's remarkably expensive.

The go-to move these days is ordering a 12-shipper from a Belgian website (like Belgium in a Box or Etre Gourmet) and having it delivered. You'll pay a shit-ton in international shipping, but since you're getting the beers at true face value in euros, it's actually comparable (or even cheaper) than if you were to buy those same beers off of a US shelf with the insane markup (or even worse, secondary markets like Facebook groups).

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yah agreed that Lambic is amazing but I don't have them that often tbh

You used to be able to regularly find Lindeman's gueuze (not their fruited lambics, ew) on shelves up until ca. 2020. It seems like after Covid I haven't seen any, and places don't seem to be stocking it anymore. Thankfully the distro for Drie Fonteinen has increased, and their Oude Gueuze is still regularly affordable. But any of their "special" fruited lambics (or even special gueuze, like Golden Blend or Platinum) are insanely overpriced. Last bottle of Framboos I saw was $60 lol. Insane. It's a great beer but that's crazy talk - it's less than half that price in Belgium.

I see that tectactoe is a gentleman and a scholar hrumpfmyes!

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note to self: never aspire to drink lambic because they crazy expensive (makes that half pint for £11 lambic I posted on the previous page seem kinda cheap, wow... no idea whether it was a nice example of that style tho)

"Belgian beer is great - a quad done right is amazing, like Bernardus Abt 12"

I also now feel bad that a) I have easy access to this (apparently) AND Chimay blue yet don't actually frequent these places. I'm a bad beer drinker

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"What measure is that? 500ml, 440ml, 355ml?"



The standard US pint, I guess--so 16oz, which would be somewhere around 475mL. Sometimes though, maybe due to brewery laws but more probably to snag more money from customers, they'll only give out strong beers (Imperial stouts, etc.) in 12oz snifters. AND a lot of breweries have a 48oz daily limit for any customer. Granted, 48oz of craft beer goes a long ways and I usually only make it through two pints myself, but still--tasting room laws are weird. (Might be specific only to Montana, I don't know.)

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Mmm... Mention of an Imperial stout makes me want one, even though it is only 0730 here... Those are quite tasty.

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Logged in to 5 this

Logging in is a lost art on Sputnik these days

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Yes it is.

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"Logging in is a lost art on Sputnik these days"



I'm surprised I remembered my password tbh

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"The standard US pint, I guess--so 16oz, which would be somewhere around 475mL"

whoa, okay didn't realise it was 475ml, haha. Weird amount. You learn something every day. I realise fluid ozs are a thing, which I think is where my 355ml shout came from (that must be roughly 12oz?) I've seen bottles imported from the US displaying that volume