I just tried this and it is one of the best fucking beers I've

Belgian beers are top tier, and this is one of them.
Try Orval, too, it looks great in those small, plum bottles.

>>9227569
Thanks anon, will try

>>9227541
Try some stuff from Unibroue

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>>9227541
That genuinely is one of the nicest beers ever.
My personal favourite is pic related.

Triple Karmeliet and Chimay white label are my favorite belgians at the moment

>>9227541
Beer looks delicious, too bad it all tastes the same.

>>9227679
I used to think that when I first started and hated beers. But cousin got me a variety pack and after noticing differences, some of which I actually liked, I decided to explore and found my preferred styles. Maybe you need a variety pack so you can explore, assuming you want to.

>>9227609
>Triple Karmeliet
my niggonton

>>9227679
I bet you only drink piss lager.
Drink a lager, then drink a stout, then drink an IPA, then drink a porter, then drink a fruit beer, then drink a bitter... THEN tell me with a straight face that it all tastes the same.

You can get banana bread beer, you can get Fruli strawberry lager, you can get chocolate stout... there's no fucking way ANY of those are going to taste remotely alike.

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we've had this craft beer circle jerk going on for the last ~5 years. Normies eat it up like hot shit, but would never buy a belgian import that cost the same as some garage brewed piss until it is fashionable

>>9227988
/thread
you niggas should stick to 50 cent lagers if your pleb taste cant enjoy this beer

Quick question: I tried a bottle of this from Whole Foods the other day but it tasted pretty moldy. Did I get a bad bottle or am I just not used to the taste?

By the way I am already acquainted with many other darker beers and IPAs, so it's not like I can only drink lager. Though I'm honestly not a huge fan of stouts

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>>9227541

Rochefort is great, probably in my top 3 along with Delirium Tremens

Number 1 is St Bernardus, though.

I find trappists severely overrated. Overly carbonated raisin water. Lots of other much better Belgian beer available.

>>9228102
Try the 6 or 8 mark, they're less intense

>>9228108
Just smashed a Delirium Tremens tonight for the first time in about 12 years. Delightful.

The local good beer shop recently had mixed St Bernardus 6-packs on special, that was also pretty delightful.

>>9227541
I'm aging a Westvleteren 12 six-pack that I bought during my day trip to sint-sixtus abbey. It's been one year already. Maybe I'll open one this weekend.

I don't get this craft beer and IPA craze. So many shitty beers and almost all of them pricier than a nice Belgian or German import. How can anyone not choose them instead of a shitty IPA?

For me, my top 5 is:

1. Westvleteren XII
2. Rochefort 10
3. St. Bernardus
4. Orval
5. Augustiner Weissbier (I wish I could buy it somewhere)

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Picked up a case of these on the way back from work.
A bit stronger than I'm used to in all honesty but I'll have some tonight and see what it's like.

>>9228670
>I don't get people having different tastes

>>9227541
Best beer

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>>9227541
Belgian beers are some of the best.

I picked this one up on a whim not too long ago. Scotch silly is basically a scotch ale made with belgian ale yeasts. It got a lot of points for being very unique.

>>9227541
Also one of my all-time favorites. Some pals and I did a blind tasting of this, Westvleteren 12, Abt 12, Chimay Blue and Trois Pistoles. From best to worst, the consensus was:

Rochefort
Westvleteren
Abt 12
Trois Pistoles
Chimay

Rochefort > Hype

>>9227988
The stout and the porter will

>>9228670
Allagash as a better equivalent to all of those. Just because you've only drank bad skunked IPAs, and middle of the road AT BEST "imports" doesn't Mar yoy an expert.

Visit nh/vt/ME/MA if you want to know what actually good beer tastes like

>>9228728
>le hide behind subjectivity

I mean it is all good to prefer poop, but in one case you pay for best in the class quality and in the other for the hypster feels

>>9228777
All IPAs are basically the same. The same bitter shit with no complexity at all.

>>9228804
Do you think the same about wine?

>>9228783
Not really. Most Belgian beer is severely overhyped just like the big name ipas and stouts of the states. I can honestly say the best triples and quads I've had have been from North America, and I've visited Belgium.

>>9228804
And all Belgian ales the same. Recipes developed 100 years ago before yeast was discovered to exist, and all use the same shitty hops.

>>9227541
Pretty much the same as you. It's great

>>9228832
Not at all.
IPAs are shit though.

>>9228833
exception and rule, pretty much all belgians I tasted were great or at least a good effort, while 90% of craft beers were bad to shit. If you managed to find very good crafts good for you I guess

Trappist dubbels and trippels are dope but just a aword of caution don't drink them too often. Keep it as a special treat because you start disliking them if you drink to much. Which is a shame since they're the best beer in the world. Stick to good European lagers and pilsners as staples, American crafts as monotony breakers and trappist stuff as indulgence.

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wat you guys think of this

>>9229061
American piss water.
Might as well be a macro.

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This is nectar.

>>9229065
I mean it's fine if you don't like it, but you should learn what buzzwords like "piss water" actually mean before mindlessly using them

>>9229075
Hello newfag.
piss water refers to any beer produced in the USA.

>>9229061
I wish Sierra Nevada would go back to making more wheats and less IPA's. We get it, guys, you put 5 gorillion pounds of hops in your beer and now it takes like a bar of soap.

>>9227541
how much does this cost for you burgers btw? in NL you can pick it up for 2 euros or so.

>>9229088
>bar of soap
kek, accurate
at least it gets you drunk quick

>>9229152
>gets you drunk quick

I remember this place serving delirium red on tap. I made sure to host my first dates there. The hard part was convincing the girls there are beers that actually taste good. After like 2 glasses it was smooth sailing. Fun times.

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Speaking of Belgium...

Rochfort is pretty fucking tasty. If your looking for something a tad different but in the same vein try Westmalle or Chimay. Westmalle being the closest

>>9229127
it's real expensive, but now we make better beers here so it doesn't hurt like it did 15 years ago

Finally got to try Guinness Foreign Extra Stout. Smart & Final had a 12 pack of mixed Guinness with three of them in it. The hype is real.

>>9229558
Yes that is the worst beer in all of belgium

>drinking the intoxicating jew

degenerate

>>9229127
That's literally what I miss the most from the time I lived in the Netherlands.

Ok, I also miss Martin Zwerts and cheese.

>>9229073

Jesus hell I want that.

>>9228102
>moldy
you mean yeasty?

>>9232055
Not the same person, but it makes no sense to compare the taste of yeast to the one of mold.

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>blocks your path

>>9227541
i nearly bought some of this last night at the bottle shop. trappist ales are some of the GOAT, full stop. even my pleb parents like a nice dubbel.

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>>9229061
this is superior imo, solely because it tastes different from sierra nevada's other pale ales. they have a very distinct, branded hop taste that sort of irks me. i wish they would do something more interesting, they have the means. nobody gives a shit about that west coast style of cramming as many hops as you can into a bottle anymore.

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>>9232744
I had this recently and loved it. I also just grabbed a Sweetwater variety pack that has an identical tasting tropical IPA. I love it though, so no complaints here.

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>>9227541


>>9227541
Its a good beer. Punchy with good flavor balance. Gets me buzzin in one serving. I would not drink more than one in a session. As for my favorite beer rn it's Left Hand's Milk Stout. I had it best served from tap.

>>9227541

Whats the difference between 6, 8 and 10? I cant tell. Since they are like 6-10$ a pop I usually only have one of the 3 every once in a while and havent been able to really compare em

>>9227541
I had 8 a while back. It's good but the import prices felt like a gouge, it was about 8 bucks IIRC.

Of course I have no problem getting a 15-20 dollar bomber but those are usually very unique BA or sour/wild styled.

I'm partial to the Flanders Red, Saison, or Lambic style out of Belgium.

>>9227679
stop drinking german beer

>>9228028
What are you talking about? Good Belgian beer costs a bit more than most equal or better tiered craft beer in America, but Americans who drink good beer still drink a ton of it, if anything, craft beer Americans overrate Belgian beer

>>9232697
I went to a bar the other day that had their 2016 reserve version of that and it was great, so much better than the base beer

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>>9227541
I'm a total beer noob and mostly drink pabst but I try to grab different single bottles all the time and OP's bottle of beer was probably the best I ever had. Tied with pic related.

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*blocks your path*

>>9233178
If you can't tell from drinking them separately, try drinking 6 to 10 after each other.

>>9233215
That's interesting because Belgian imports are way cheaper here (Australia) than American imports. Hell, they're often better value than home grown Australian craft beers.

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>>9228108
>>9228352
>>9228716
I found this at the local international food/expensive furnishings store.
I did not know it came in cans.

>>9232744
Their hoppy lager is my favorite beer from them

>>9229558
I prefer the cuvee Rene, best shelfie Belgian ever

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A couple of years ago I had a Chimay Bleue, aged 4 years, was the best goddamn beer I ever had. It was almost like syruppy at this point.

>>9233432
>Bleue
tard.

>>9233259
woah

>>9233458
i'd like to age a strong dark beer and buy new ones annually then try them all in the same night
i just don't have the patience

>trap

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Rate my beer for the night. I still have 4 left on my six pack. This one is aged 1.5 years from my visit to sint-sixtus.

First one I had 6 months after buying and it wasn't as complex as the one for today.
I'm eager to try the next ones. Maybe I'll wait a year or two.

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Had a flight from pic related today. I'd had a few of their brews but only their anniversary pils stood out. Overall, great pilsners and lagers, and a peach hefeweizen that was fabulous. I tried the barleywine though and hooo boy does that shit need to be aged. Super boozy. Black IPA was decent.

>>9229061
Have one in my hand right now. Absurdly average IPA. It's cheap at least
>>9232697
the brewery website says my local store has it but they have nothing by New Holland and I'm disappoint

>>9227541

I have OCD. I had cold beer. But my power was out for a day so it became warm. Then I put it in the fridge again. is it still ok to drink, even though it was cold for a day

>>9235299
Sounds more like autism brah

>>9235375

seriously. Does the beer retain its alcoholcontent and taste if its been warm for a day then chilled agian

>>9235392
No it's bad I'd throw it out

>>9235392
you'll probably poison yourself if you drink it, it's rancid at this point

>>9233465
huh? do you have a mental disability?

>>9227598
Absolutely agree.

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>love most types of beers
>love any cocktail like an old fashioned
Don't ever waste your money on this. It was a rancid mistake. I should of poured it down the drain, but forced myself to drink most of it for my money's worth.

>>9230345
t.Muhammad

>>9227598
I had the Christmas Ale and found it too carbonated. Is the 12 abt less carbonated?
>>9227609
Chimay Blue Label is the shit that got me into beer
>>9228028
Except some small breweries can make shit as good as belgian abbey ales, look at Unibroue's Trois Pistoles
>>9229082
>piss water refers to any beer produced in the USA.
Somebody sounds mad
>>9232904
Beau's here in Ontario makes a killer milk stout even if comes similar in taste to the smell of cum

>>9233215
newsflash, there are other countries out there, shocking I know. I'm frequently presented with murrikan crafts though and fwiw they are every bit as bad as our home selection.

I know burgers have a superiority complex, but if they actually believe their own bs itt and not just pretending, they have absolutely know taste.

>>9227541
Fucking great.

>>9236274
Nearly all beer from every country is overrated.

t. burger

>>9227541
Wierdly, I like Rochefort 8 more.

>>9227598
>>9228108
Abt 12 is Westvleteren XII-tier without being unobtanium. Great beer.

>>9227609
Tripel Karmeliet is the ideal breakfast beer. Chimay is a bit pleb-tier, but still delicious.

>>9228028
Currently drinking this and some Kasteel Rouge.

>>9228670
>>9228751
10/10 taste for both of you.

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all of you are plebeians, this is the most superior beer, i'm proud to live in the area it's made

>>9230045
Chimay > Westmalle tho.

>>9233178
They're all brewed using the same basic recipe, but some have more alcohol than the others (10>8>6). The numbers refer to degrees Balling, which is an old Belgian standard used to measure alcohol content.
>6-10$
Shame. Here in the Netherlands, they're about 2.50 EUR for a 10, and under 2 EUR for an 8.

>>9233249
>try drinking 6 to 10 after each other.
I recommend writing your findings down after that. 10 kicks like a horse.

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>>9236869
I just checked my local liquor wholesaler, just across the border in Germany
>mfw 20L keg of La Chouffe: 77 EUR
>mfw 30L keg of Tripel Karmeliet: 130 EUR
>mfw 20L keg of Leffe Dubbel: 73 EUR

>>9236875
imma get me a carton of karmeliet for christmas this year i think

>>9235299
I believe not even the biggest craft beer snob in the would know the difference. Fluctuation of temperature being bad is real. But only from a long term perspective.

>>9236846
>national distribution volume
>dry hop BLEND
>malt BLEND

nah

you could have posted pseduo sue and it still wouldnt have been as pleb as that

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>>9236846
>Most superior beer
>Not Zombie Dust
>Calling other plebs

The irony.

>>9238478
Pseudo sue is better and cheaper and easier to get

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>>9227598
My nigga. My favorite so far is pic related.
For some things it's great to be Belgian.

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>>9229558
I find their apple one is really good, though it's more a soda then a beer imo.

>>9227541
Pretty good, just a damn shame about the alcohol content

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>>9238543
Rest of my current stash, I got a lot for my birthday a few months ago but only drink one a week.

>>9229558
yuck

>>9229061

It's a solid entry level ipa

>>9238503
this

>>9238557
>only drink one a week.
Jesus Christ you got some willpower son.

>>9241491
I never drank much, and only started appreciating beers in my late 20s (32 now). Just one of those heavier ones makes me tipsy, so I save em for the evenings when I don't have to work the next day.

>>9241601
Good man

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>>9238557
>Rodenbach
my nigga

I've never had a good beer
Mostly because I'm poor and can't try new things often

Lately I just drink vodka because the taste of ethanol is better than the taste of disappointment

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>no Chouffe
>americans will never know what it's like drinking a nice beer in belgium, served alongside gouda au cumin and dry sausages

>>9242915
>ctrl-f ''Chouffe''
>>9236875
Found it.

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Had this at my local pub last month.
I usually hate the Brewdog meme, but it was new tap so I gave it a shot.
It was quite good.

>>9235314
hoppin frog YES LAD