Here is the list of bottled Belgian Beers available at Chelmsford Summer Beer Festival 2009. We also have for the first time at the festival a great selection of draught beers, see our draught list.
Wheat Beers
1. Blanche de Bruxelles - Sweet wheat beer with coriander and orange peel flavours.
2. St. Bernardus Wit - Highly spiced strong wheat beer.
3. Watou’s Witbier - Possibly the best Belgian wheat beer. Lemony, cloudy, refreshing.
Belgian Lager Beers
4. Hoppepils - Standard lager beer.
5. Sasbrau Dortmunder - Dortmunder-style lager, that does not drink its weight.
6. SAS Pils (Export) - Nice, rounded bitter lager beer.
7. Silly Pils - Better than average lager from the Silly brewery, down south.
8. Slag Lager Beer - A tasty lager beer from those nice family brewers Slaghmuylder.
Blond Beers
10.Biolégère - Excellent organic light saison beer.
11. Brugse Zot Blond - Easy-drinking blond specially built in Bruges for beginners to Belgian beer.
12. De Graal Blond - A spiced blond with dry hopping.
13.Delirium Tremens - Multi award-winning strong cult beer. Follow the pink elephants.
14. Den Tseut - Caramel malty with a bitter aftertaste.
15.Femme Fatale - Light golden beer with a touch of coriander.
16. Gouden Carolus Triple - Well-balanced, big golden triple. Well worth trying.
17. Witkap Special - Pale ale from the excellent Slaghmuylder brewery.
18. Guldenberg - Huge, dryish, hoppy strong blond that excels.
19. Het Kapittel Abt - Light amber aromatic sweetish triple.
20. Het Kapittel Blond - Superb, well-rounded easy drinking blond beer.
21. Hopus - Exciting, brand-new beer from Lefebvre, contains bags of hops.
22. La Chouffe - Classic strong Belgian blond, with hints of coriander.
23. Maredsous 6 - Lovely blond Abbey beer with nice balance of malt and aromatic hop.
24. Maredsous 10 - Big orangey-blond cross between a triple and a barley wine.
25. Moinette blonde - Belgian beer doesn’t get any better than this classic blond ale.
26. Poperings Hommelbier - Strong hoppy pale ale from the hop fields of Flanders.
27. Saison Dupont - Beautiful herbal ale packed with fresh hops.
28. Satan Gold - Devilishly good sweetish golden beer.
29. Taras Boulba - Beautiful light ale with a complex hop character.
30. Val Dieu Blonde - Excellent well-balanced session beer.
31. Valeir Blond - Smooth bottle-fermented beer from family brewery Contreras.
32. Witkap Stimulo - Straw-coloured, fruity beer said to aid digestion.
33. XX Bitter - Fantastic bitter pale ale that is Podge’s favourite.
34. Zinnebier - Well-hopped pale beer that keeps getting better and better.
35. Brueghel - Gentle, easy-drinking fruity amber ale.
36. Bush Beer - Huge English-style Barley Wine that is best drunk as a nightcap.
37. Den Bras - Hazy amber beer with caramel malt and fruit flavours.
38. Kwak - Famous sweetish caramel beer that always goes down well.
39. Orval - Distinctive pale amber ale brewed by Trappist monks.
40. Rodenbach - Refreshing Flemish brown made by blending young and oak-aged beer.
41. Rodenbach Grand Cru - Rodenbach’s big brother but made with more of the older, oak-aged beer.
Dark Beers
42. Buffalo Belgian Stout - Soft and sweetish stout, originally made for the American market.
43. Catherine - The great Russian imperial stout with some mind-boggling flavours.
44. De Graal Dubbel - Brown beer with a distinctive liquorice flavour.
45. Gouden Draak - A festival favourite. This huge dark beer should be treated with respect.
46. Het Kapittel Dubbel - Dark and aromatic with pear drops in the background.
47. Het Kapittel Pater - Good, standard Abbey brown ale.
48. Maredsous 8 - Well-made strong dark dubbel beer with a Demerara sweetness.
49. St Bernardus Pater - Fruity, dark brown, sweetish roasted Dubbel beer.
50. St Bernardus Abt 12 - Massive golden brown Barley Wine.
51. Westmalle Dubbel - Ruddy, brown ale with slight chocolate back tastes. A Trappist classic.
52. Barbar - Amber, blond beer laced with honey.
53. Chocolat Florisgaarden - Belgium is famous for two things. Beer and chocolate. Here are both.
54. De Graal Gember - Tasty blond ginger beer.
55. Echte Kriek - Nice and sourish, made by steeping whole cherries in aged brown beer.
56. Framboise Timmermans - Sweet raspberry beer.
57. Kriek Timmermans - Sweet cherry beer.
58. Liefmans - Brand new beer available for the first time in UK. A red cherry beer blended with natural juice of strawberry, raspberry, blueberry and juniper.
59. Mongozo Coconut - Yes, this really is a coconut beer (Fair Trade).
60. Mongozo Banana - Beer made from Fair Trade bananas.
61. Passion Florisgaarden- Passion Fruit flavoured beer.
62. Peche Timmermans - Sweet peach flavoured beer.
63. Pink Killer - Pink grapefruit flavoured, refreshing light beer.
64. Rose des Remparts - Sweet raspberry beer.
65. Strawberry Florisgaarden - Strawberry flavoured beer.
Lambic Beers
These are unique beers made using the natural airborne yeasts in a small area west and south of Brussels. They all have a characteristic sourish taste. The gueuze is bottled blended lambic beer and the Kriek is lambic beer with added cherries, not commercial syrups, but real cherries.
Gueuzes
66. Mort Subite Oude Gueuze
67. Girardin Gueuze
68. Boon Mariage Parfait
Krieks
69. Mort Subite Oude Kriek
70. Girardin Kriek
71. Boon Oude Kriek
Raspberry Lambics
72. Boon Framboise
73. Girardin Framboise
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