Lidl 6 Belgian ales for £10.49

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Message RichTheVillan beers 10685 º places 101 º 06:28 Thu 12/22/2016
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Message chriso P beers 7540 º places 736 º 07:05 Thu 12/22/2016 Originally posted by SilkTork This Bornem stuff is really crap. The Belgiums like to use sugar in their brewing, and Van Steenberge take that to the extreme. It’s more fermented sugar than malt. Thin and nasty. There was a time when I consumed these run of the mill Belgian beers enthusiastically, and crossed the channel quite regularly to drink / buy them. That was in the 80s & 90s, when there wasn’t a whole lot of variation in UK beers and decent imports were thin on the ground. The higher abv than we were accustomed to was also a welcome novelty. However, times have moved on but, unfortunately, much of the Belgian beer industry has not. I stopped going to Zythos beer festival because it was over-populated with thin, blond, boozy and often aggressively spiced beers (even from new brewers) that didn’t really provide me with much satisfaction apart from the tick. Nowadays I can get the variation in my beer diet that I want without resorting to beers like this and I haven’t revisited many of them for a long time. I should probably do so, if only for confimation.

Message SilkTork P beers 7759 º places 111 º 10:54 Thu 12/22/2016 Originally posted by chriso Originally posted by SilkTork This Bornem stuff is really crap. The Belgiums like to use sugar in their brewing, and Van Steenberge take that to the extreme. It’s more fermented sugar than malt. Thin and nasty. There was a time when I consumed these run of the mill Belgian beers enthusiastically... Yeah, even the poor Belgians seemed like magic in comparison with what was happening in the UK in the 80s and 90s. And the UK took most of my lifetime to get bottle conditioning sorted out. Some brewers still haven’t quite got it right, but it’s less like Russian roulette to open a British bottle conditioned beer these days. I gave up on French bottle conditioned beers many years ago. Have they improved at all?
Message Gary beers 2114 º places 4 º 11:47 Thu 12/22/2016 Just picked two boxes up.
Message chriso P beers 7540 º places 736 º 12:26 Thu 12/22/2016 Originally posted by SilkTork I gave up on French bottle conditioned beers many years ago. Have they improved at all? I believe I have stains on my dining room ceiling arising from one of those. To be honest, I haven’t tried any for quite a while.
Message Gary beers 2114 º places 4 º 13:10 Thu 12/22/2016 Just cracked open a Gulden Draak. Wow is it as syrupy and rich as I recall. Loads of dark boozy fruit and generally cumbersome in the mouth.But still pretty enjoyable to drink. Drinking it from a 50cl leffe goblet I bought while at high boost in Lille ,France two years ago.

Message Gary beers 2114 º places 4 º 13:41 Thu 12/22/2016 Rich, how many of these beers are new ticks for u ?
Message Gary beers 2114 º places 4 º 13:42 Thu 12/22/2016 Draak 900 now. Holy shit is this sugary
Message Gary beers 2114 º places 4 º 15:11 Thu 12/22/2016 High BOOST