REVIEW: Brouwerij Verhaeghe Duchesse De Bourgogne

So today I'm finally looking at my first sour ale. I'm kind of excited. Sours seem to be the hottest trend in craft beer, but for whatever reason I have yet to really get into them, on the blog or off. My friend Zach recently opened up a wine store, Oakley Wines, check them out, very cool spot. In addition to more wine than you can shake a stick at they also have a pretty solid craft beer selection. I was there not too long ago and snagged this bottle, Duchesse De Bourgogne, a Flanders red ale. Let's not waste any more time. To the beer!

REVIEW: Affligem Noël

Well, here we are. The last of the Christmas beers. This has been a whole lot of fun. I'll be sad to see them go. But that's half of the magic of Christmas, it's always over before you're ready to be over, At least I'm going out with an interesting one, Affligem N oël, A Belgian style Strong Dark Ale. I don't know the first thing about this beer, but going from a complete judging-a-book-by-it's-cover type place, I'm pretty excited. To the beer!

REVIEW: Brouwerij Bosteels Tripel Karmeliet

I've looked at my fair share of Belgian style ales on the blog but today's beer is my first true Belgian beer. A bit odd that it's taken this long. My fascination with this beer starts with that tall, stemmed, fleur de lis festooned glass sitting there on the right. I was at Dilly Cafe in Mariemont about a year ago (One of the great beer bars. You should really check it out if you have the chance) and they were pouring Tripel Karmeliet, and while a Belgian tripel isn't always wont to catch my eye, that glass sure was. A couple of months later I found A Tripel Karmeliet gift set at the party source that included three bottles of the beer and, you guessed it, that beautiful glass. That brings us to today, where if I'm being honest with all of you, I bought this bottle just so I could use the glass for a blog photo. Time to see if the beer inside is as pretty as the glass. To the beer!