This is far from comprehensive, of course. You’d need months of dedicated, er, work, to get through the breweries of Belgium. Instead, here are images of some of the beers we had on our trip to Belgium. Belgians take their glassware seriously, which means less need for captioning.
Gueuze at the Cantillon brewery. Gueuze is a combination of variously aged lambics, which are naturally fermented and uncarbonated.
Kriek, more or less the cherry version of gueuze. Take lambic and soak cherries in it for a while. This is a far cry from the Lindeman’s fruit lambics you sometimes see in the US, which the Cantillon brewery pooh-poohs as cheating (they add sugar to help along the fermentation and sweeten the final product). ‘Pleasantly sour’ is the way I’d describe this.
That "Oude Geuze Boon" got switched in my head to "Oulde Geude Booze"...sounds goude, er...good.
ReplyDeleteDid you get to La Morte Subite in Bruxelles? Esp known for their gueze and lambics.
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We didn't go to La Morte Subite, and somehow I don't think it came up in any of our guidebooks, either. I just looked it up, and it does look good! However, there was certainly no lack of gueze or lambic on our visit :)
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