Bottle list at Grote Dorst

Link : http://www.dorst.be/sites/default/files/book/d03e9e1ef8dc02cfdec2d252c73f4420/d03e9e1ef8dc02cfdec2d252c73f4420.pdf

Last time when I was in Belgium, I couldn’t visit this place and wasn’t looking for it too. However a week ago I found out the bottle list, and it was fxxking amazing, but a question came to my mind. How could this bottle list could last until now? Also, found out there aren’t any vintage after 2013, so I guess the bottle list is updated few years ago.

So guys, if you have recently been to this place, can you recall any bottle list for me please? I’ll be taking a taxi so I wish it would worth the mony :( Thanks and cheers :)

They’re open only on sundaymornings, so how much bottles CAN you sell ? Other bars are open for, say, 6 days a weeks rather than a half. So they sell roughly 12 times more a week.

if you do the math, all theoretical offcourse, this means that a bottle that lasts 1 year in a random bar, will last 12 in grote dorst. Plus you’ve got to think about how many people will go there ( quite untouristic area ) and take a expensive bottle on a sundaymorning. Sure thing, many beergeeks go there, but most of them rather take a ’cheaper’ lambic than the most exclusive ones.

if dorst would be at a city center, opening the hours other bars do, they would have a comparable vintage menu than the other bars :)

Also, i’ve been there like a year ago for the last time, so unless they found new vintage bottles, many of them are out of stock indeed.They still had soem goodies though ! ( like eylenbosh geuze ) so it for sure is worth going to if you have the chance

When I was there a year ago, only the regulars were available...

Posting an updated beer list on the internet is not a strength of pretty much any bar in Belgium, especially one that emphasizes tradition, as the Great Thirst does. Just another example, the draught lambics and kriekenlambiks will vary quite a bit depending on availability and demand, but they’ll always have something.

Some things are for certain - the atmosphere is great, and the people are friendly, kind and welcoming (both the Paneel brothers and the crowd of locals and visitors alike). So you will have a good time if you visit.

My advice would be to not go there expecting one specific beer. Just go there, see what’s on offer, see what’s in the cellar, and soak in the place. You won’t be disappointed.

The above being said, if this isn’t enough then I would book a room at Yves Paneel’s "bed and breakfast" - really just a spare bedroom in his house. If he’s still doing this, details will be on the House of Geuze website, or you can just contact him. He will show you his collection of lambikstoempers. And maybe, just maybe, if you’re nice, and curious, and maybe bring him an interesting bottle, he will share something interesting from his private cellar (which all self-respecting Belgians have).

I’d LOVE to try that 1999 OGV and 2004 Schaarbeekse Kriek.

How is the pricing over there?

Steep but fair.

Also not everything is always in stock, bottles move between cellars I think, or are otherwise unavailable sometimes. And everything that Gene said.

Originally posted by b3shine
I’d LOVE to try that 1999 OGV and 2004 Schaarbeekse Kriek.

Originally posted by fyb
How is the pricing over there?