Country
- Unknown 34
- Belgium 47
- France 2
- Netherlands 15
- United Kingdom 2
Trappist
- Trappist 17
- Non-Trappist 83
3 Monts
From Flanders - A really nice 75cl bottle. Little bit fizzy, quite drinkable and blond .
Belgium
Achel
Like Westmalle, triple brewed (I think), strong and dark taste. Was a Trappist but has since lost this status.
Belgium
Affligem 0,0
A weird one this. It doesn't really taste of... anything. Barely a hint of beer and mostly just dealing with carbonated water. I won't bother again.
Belgium
Affligem Dubbel
Dark beer with strong caramel, very sweet, not too pleasant. Has a slight metallic aftertaste.
Belgium
Affligem Tripel
Unlike the Dubbel, blonder beer is very nice, refined with a kick. Up there with the Achel and Westmalle.
Belgium
Ampleforth
Nice beer from York area, in the spirit of Belgian beers. Deep blonde, dubbel. Hints of nut. enjoyable.
United Kingdom
Barista Chocolate Quad
Dark, delicious, chocolate taste. Special brew from Kasteel and well worth a try.
Bolleke (de Koninck)
Sharp. Bit of a tough one to drink. On presentation quite fizzy, albeit with a soft caramel taste.
Belgium
Brouwerij Werbrouck (Dubbel)
fizzy, creamy and chocolately dark double beer. Forgettable.
Brugge Tripel
Unremarkable strong beer with a bit of fizz. won't miss it.
Belgium
Chimay Blue 2021
lovely deep dark beer, nice textures, and a strong taste that is welcome and warming.
Trappist Belgium
Chimay Cinq Cents
Much blonder beer with a slight fermentation/vinegar taste. Not fantastic.
Trappist Belgium
Chimay Grand Reserve 2019
Dark, almost chocolate taste. Strong, deep and pleasant.
Trappist Belgium
Cornet Oaked
Indeed a bit of an oak taste makes it smooth and almost creme. lighter blond beer, nice aftertaste. not my favourite but worth enjoying.
Belgium
Cuvée Clarisse - Wild Weasel
Strong, smooth with a hint of whisky (although not as much as I expected). This punches its weight around the typical 10% beers and is a pleasant drink. Would definitely seek out.
Belgium
Delirium Nocturnum
Very dark, malty. Drinkable in isolation but probably couldn't manage more than one.
Belgium
Duchesse de Bourgogne
Hints of balsamic vinegar it tells me on the web - my bottle tasted entirely of balsamic vinegar. I hope this was a one-off - undrinkable.
Belgium
Duvel
Distinctive, lighter tasting beer but with quite a kick. A bit too fizzy in 75cl variants.
Belgium
Duvel 6.66
Nice beer along the lines of the origianl Duval with a slightly softer taste, lower strength.
Belgium
Duvel Tripel Hop Citra
A new beer (2021) with a noticeably sour taste with lemon remains. Sadly not a favourite; Duval original remains my preferred.
Belgium
Floreffe
Fizzy blond beer, not particularly tasty. The flavour is slightly sour, slightly metallic, not really appealing to me, so it's a miss from now on.
Belgium
fourchette
fizzy - careful opening the bottle. The fizz continues throughout, somewhat distracting from any taste that might linger. Under the liveliness it's a fairly run of the mill affair with no great qualities.. Slight dark, caramel taste.
Belgium
Gentse Strop
quite a blond beer on appearance, but with a strong, quite brutal hoppy aftertaste. Not my favourite. Very fizzy.
Belgium
Goedendag
Slightly sharper taste of strong, pale alcohol - bit like Tripel Karmeliet but without such a nice rounded taste.
Belgium
Gouden Karolus
I do like this (can't remember why - may be a good sign...)
Belgium
Gouverneur Tripel
First few tastes were quite sour, but it steadily improved through the bottle. Nice smooth texture with a creamy aftertaste.
Netherlands
Grote Kazematten Ieper
Dark beer with a slightly sour aftertaste. Cloudy in the bottle. Not fantastic.
gulden draak
very nice smooth dark beer. not much extra to it
Gulden Draak 9000 Quadrupel
smooth creamy flavour, nice aftertaste. Strong and good all-rounder. i like this one! incredibly tasty, strong beer with a refined, smooth flavour of dark beer, but not impossibly so.
Hercule Stout
Named after the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, this has been on my to try list for a while. It’s a decent stout with a nice, dark flavour. Reminds me of chocolate, coffee bitterness which works well. Slightly stronger at 9% ABV. I’d certainly be happy to add this to the regular rotation when it becomes available.
Hertog Jan (Grand Prestige)
Quite a delicious, smooth texture from a strong beer. Welcome, marming and tasty.
Netherlands
Hertog Jan Karakter
similar to kastel but fizzier and slightly more drinkable.
Hopus
nice, tame flavour with a strong caramel taste.
Jopen Heavy Cross Triple IPA
Another Jopen IPA that seems to be targeted at the Brits. IPA is not my preference. Although I appreciate it's less distinct here, it's not one I'll pick up again.
Netherlands
Jopen Mooi Nel North Sea IPA
Picked this up on a whim but I need to remind myself that I'm not a fan of IPAs. I'm sure this is nice to many who enjoy IPAs, but I can't get over the taste. Sadly not a nice one.
Netherlands
Jopen Trinitas Tripel
Nice blended beer, tastes like rochefort 10. enjoyable, quite strong but not unpleasant. From Haarlem.
Netherlands
Kasteel Cuvée
Lovely dark strong stout, good for flavour, cold dark nights
Kasteel Donker 11 degrees
Very dark, chocolatey beer. more than one is tough. very nice.
Kasteel Tripel
Strong blond beer. Nice, creamy aftertaste, Packs a bit of a punch. Not too far from Tripel Karmeliet.
Kwak
Ever so slightly sour taste, strong beer (8.5%) with a deep but not offensive malt taste. Smooth, not particularly fizzy.
Kwak Blonde
Quite tasty, nice flavour with hints of fruit coming through, at 7.4% a reasonable strength. The typical Kwak sourness is coming through but in this beer it's not too strong.
La Chouffe
Unfiltered blond beer, Really nice aftertaste a bit like the better Leffe blond. quite strong.
Belgium
La Chouffe (Blue)
Quite a caramel, dark taste. Perhaps a bit overpowering. Not my favourite.#
Belgium
La Goudale
A really nice, tasty beer ideal in 75cl bottles. Blonde and reasonably strong
France
La Mointoise
Blond beer, quite fizzy. One of the weaker beers - good for a sunny evening.
La Trappe Isid'Or
Darker, slightly maltier than Quad. I really like it. Got a strong kick.
Trappist Netherlands
La Trappe Puur
a weaker beer with a weird taste, almost hoppy in the way alcohol-free beers taste. Lingering sweet taste. Beer itself smells a little burnt. Taste is creamy and fizzy. Aftertaste lingers for a while. Nothing special but a good option for "don't want to have too much".
Trappist Netherlands
La Trappe Quadrupel
is very nice, strong, lovely smooth taste. Errs towards caramel/chocolate levels of taste.
Trappist Netherlands
La Trappe Tripel
Lighter, lovely. A delight in beer, not quite the kick of the quad but not necessarily a bad thing!
Trappist Netherlands
Leffe Blonde
A popular blonde drink from Belgium, brewed by AB InBev.
Belgium
Leffe Bruin 0,0
A weak substitute for an otherwise nice beer. It's a little closer than other brands but still has a strong sweet taste prevalent to most alcohol free beers.
Belgium
Leffe Rituel 9 Degrees
Stronger, slightly darker beer. Pleasant routine drink. Not outstanding.
Belgium
Leffe Royale Blonde
Fizzy one, nothing exceptional but has an unusual honey aftertaste.
Belgium
Leffe Zomer (Ete)
Fine beer, nice and refreshing, slightly sparkling. easy drinking typical leffe taste but slightly weaker.
Belgium
Lellebel
Nice, slightly sore but pleasant and refreshing drink. Almost a hint of IPA (it's a "Belgian Pale Ale") but not too much. Nice cold in a hot summer day.
Netherlands
Monks Stout Dupont
I know when I'm beaten. Deep strong stout flavour, a little too much so for my tastes.
Omer
Nice, deep tasting beer with a strong and pleasant flavour, with an aftertaste of hops. Enjoyable drink.
Belgium
Orval
Slightly sour taste but still delicious, slightly creme and caramel flavour. not too fizzy. cloudy and light brown.
Trappist Belgium
Paix Dieu
Slightly strange, strong beer. It has a sickly, caramel taste that thankfully doesn't overpower. Carries a bit of a whack in strength. Nice as a one off, but probably not a regular choice.
Belgium
Palm
Soft and sweet beer.
Pannepot Vintage 2017
very dark strong stout beer with choc+creamy aftertaste. nice but not a personal fave
Pauwel Kwak
surprisingly smoother than I remember. Really nice taste, easy to drink and welcome.
Pelforth
Very fizzy darker beer. Caramel taste hits upfront. Frankly tastes like table wine with a bit of a kick. artificially sweet.
France
Petrus Nitro Quad
bit sickly for me but otherwise a nice strong beer
Poperings Hommel
Fizzy, nice blond beer. Not spectacular but enjoyable enough.
Quintine
Very nice, but fizzy
Rebelse Strop
Sour taste (fermentation in bottle). Otherwise fairly uninteresting, indistinct taste.
Saint Lambertus (Summer)
Bit of an unpleasant aftertaste consistent with beers of this type. Not great.
Saison Dupont
Quite a sour taste, particularly lingering. This is a reasonably nice beer, although going to be tough after the first bottle. Reasonably undistinct flavour otherwise. Not too creamy. Fizzy at times.
Santé Grotten
actually rather nice. Dark beer with an unexpected fruity (almost sour) aftertaste.
Schlenkerla Rauchbier
It seems this one has a bit of fame. The “real Schlenkerla smoked beer” certainly doesn’t disappoint. It’s how I’d imagine kissing an ashtray. The smokiness comes through immediately and throughout and – if I dare to say – overpowers much of the remaining beer taste. Not sure I’ll be back to this one in a hurry. The novelty wore off quickly, and it wasn’t the most pleasant to drink. Still, good as a reminder of some of the more extreme flavours out there.
Siren Through the Hourglass
sour, difficult to drink. Don't think I'll be trying this again.
St Bernadus Abt 12
Nice beer, easy to drink, not so sweet. lovely dark beer with smooth tastes, strong flavour and abv. Couldn't have too many of these but they're a firm favourite.
St Feuillen
Slightly fizzy blond beer, strong-ish but nice and easy to drink.
St Feuillen Grand Cru
Really nice caramel taste with a strong kick and lovely texture. defintely enjoy this one as an occasional purchase.
Belgium
St Pierre Blond
Slightly metallic taste at first, but not too overpowering. Bit fizzy. Beyond that, there's nothing too distinct about this beer.
Belgium
Stouterik (De La Senne)
Watery, with a strong fizzy and chocolate. I don't like this. It has no real body.
Belgium
Straffe Hendrik Quad
very dark, malty but strangely sweet. Can't actually taste much booze despite being 11.5% I do like it.
Ter Dolen Donker
Lovely dark beer, caramel with a bit fruity
Texels Scuumkoppe 0,0
Actually quite nice for a non alcoholic beer. They've done something to this that prevents the usual weird sweetened taste coming through (it's still there but the flavour of scuumkoppe is stronger). A good choice for alcohol free drinking.
Netherlands
Texels Skuumkoppe
Frothy head to this beer (literally translate as 'scum head') which had a reasonable taste, slightly wheaty, not particularly remarkable.
Netherlands
Texels Springtij
Good but not fantastic. nice enough, quite bubbly but nice caramel aftertaste
Netherlands
Tongerio Tripel
Blond triple beer, ever such a slightly sour taste which just knocks it down a little for me, otherwise a fairly indistinctive one.
Belgium
Tripel Karmeliet
Lovely; triple beer so very strong taste, halfway between dark and blond
Triple Secret Des Moines
light (in colour) blonde beer with a slight fermentation aftertaste. 8.0% ... Aroma is a little sour on first impression, but the taste takes hold pretty quickly. It's not a "bad" beer but I'm not fussed on finding it again.
Troubdaour Magma
Smooth, creamy taste to a strong-ish beer. Very slight sour taste to it, which is interesting but just about my limit. Not one I'd pick out but broadly pleasant nonetheless.
Tynt Meadow
The only British Trappist beer. Lovely, smooth, creamy and chocolatey.
Trappist United Kingdom
victoria
Strong and a reasonable rate, but there's a metallic hint that persists, possibly a result of the refermentation. Not the best, but not undrinkable either. Supposedly this a competitor to Duval, but I'm not convinced.
Belgium
Westmalle Dubbel
A slightly weaker variant of the gorgeous Tripel dark Westmalle beer, just as tasty.
Trappist Belgium
Westmalle Extra
Lighter on the alcohol content; fizzier. Reminds me of 'premium' lagers, with hints of the classic Westmalle taste.
Trappist Belgium
Westmalle Tripel
Gorgeous triple brewed golden strong pale ale.
Trappist Belgium
Westvleteren
Very difficult to get hold of (you shouldn't see this for resale - it's supposed to be bought direct from the abbey). Refined, strong, The 8 degrees bottle is a nice, strong dark taste but surprisingly not too fizzy. Hints of chocolate aftertaste. Nice all rounder but it's not "amazing" as the exclusivity might suggest! 10 is pretty well as expected, a darker, stronger beer with a tiny bit more fizz.
Trappist Belgium
Zatte Tripel
Curious beer that starts off as a boozy, metallic tasting fizzy beer .. doesn't really feature anything original. It's hard to explain: inoffensive, indistinct, but quite strong and a bit fizzy.
Netherlands