Category: Drinks

Maredsous Blonde 6

6% Belgian Ale, usually available at The Blackfriars Tavern in Great Yarmouth, FB: BlackfriarsTavern

The light Maredsous Blonde was the abbey’s very first beer. Nowadays, the monks still drink it daily at lunch.

Maredsous Blonde is a delectable blonde ale with sprightly fruitiness, soft malting and a slightly dry, gently-hopped finish. A sparkling nose, complex flavours and a touch of bitterness give this fine ale all of the refreshing quantities of a classic Belgian blonde.

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Bottled Belgian Beer

Maredsous Tripel 10

10% Belgian Strong Ale, usually available at The Blackfriars Tavern in Great Yarmouth, FB: BlackfriarsTavern

Maredsous Tripel is served in the abbey on special occasions. Its elegant smoothness hides its alcohol content and makes it the connoisseur’s beer.

Maredsous Tripel is a golden-bodied Belgian triple, redolent with festive sparkle, creamy body and a luscious head. Its elegant smoothness belies the strong alcohol content. You’ll revel in its balanced, long and warming finish.

Bottled Belgian Beer

Bruegel Amber Ale

5.2% Belgian Ale, usually available at The Blackfriars Tavern in Great Yarmouth, FB: BlackfriarsTavern

Bruegel is an easy drinking soft and tasty amber ale. Thanks to the refermentation it offers more body, more head and more taste than most other American and Belgian Amber ales. It is brewed with Dutch barley and German hops. Although the bitterness is clearly present, it is not dominant.

Bottled Belgian Beer

Postel Blonde

7% Belgian Ale, usually available at The Blackfriars Tavern in Great Yarmouth, FB: BlackfriarsTavern

Postel Blonde Beer is a Belgian pale ale from Postel Brewery in Opwijk, Belgium. Norbertine monks first began brewing beer in the confines of their 12th century abbey, Postel Abbey, in Noorderkempen until the canons were driven from the abbey during the French Revolution. Thankfully, the monks’ brewing recipes were saved and guarded. Pouring a golden blonde colour with a full and creamy head, this refreshing Belgian craft beer is carefully brewed, bottled and stored to allow for refermentation. It has a slightly sweet palate with a spicy finish and notes of bready malt, coriander and yeast. Buy Postel Blonde for a 7% sweet, malty beer with a fresh, bitter aftertaste.

Bottled Belgian Beer

Postel Tripel

9% Belgian Style Abbey Tripel, usually available at The Blackfriars Tavern in Great Yarmouth, FB: BlackfriarsTavern

A golden Belgian abbey ale.

Bottled Belgian Beer

Piraat

10.5% Belgian Sour Beer, often available at The Blackfriars Tavern in Great Yarmouth, FB: BlackfriarsTavern

This light amber beer with a full white head overwhelms you with an aroma of bitter, spicy, malty and alcoholic scents and is then followed by a perfect interplay of malty, sweet and hop bitter flavours and you’ll be immersed in a very long, slightly sweet finish with bitter undertones.

A wonderful digestif beer provided a good maturation cellar has a wonderful evolution but also pamper your taste buds with a tasty game dishes or foie gras or ripe cheeses.

Bottled Belgian Beer

Petrus Oud Bruin

5.5% Belgian Sour Beer, usually available at The Blackfriars Tavern in Great Yarmouth, FB: BlackfriarsTavern

Petrus Old Brown beer is a blend of the brewery’s Aged Pale, aged for up to two years in huge oak casks, with a fresh dark beer. During this aging process, just like in wine, lactic acids develop. These acids are responsible for the refreshing sourness in the taste. Only tasting on a regular basis can tell the brewer when the beer is ready to come out of the oak barrels and to be blended with fresh brewed beer. This blend is then bottled.

Petrus Old Dark ripens for 24 months in oak barrels, this gives its vinous, noble taste and slightly sour in character.

Bottled Belgian Beer

Troubadour Obscura

8.2% Belgian Strong Ale, usually available at The Blackfriars Tavern in Great Yarmouth, FB: BlackfriarsTavern

A dark, red brown coloured beer with a rich malty body combined with roast, chocolate, coffee and vanilla notes.

Bottled Belgian Beer

Abbaye Des Rocs Blonde

6.5% Ale, usually available at The Blackfriars Tavern in Great Yarmouth, FB: BlackfriarsTavern

A top fermentation beer. Blond in colour with a vanilla and floral aroma. Rich on the palate with a bitter taste.

Bottled Belgian Beer

Abbaye Des Rocs

9% Belgian Strong Ale, usually available at The Blackfriars Tavern in Great Yarmouth, FB: BlackfriarsTavern

Abbaye des Rocs (9% alcohol vol.) is a pure malt beer, with no added sugar. The entire range of tastes is directly linked to the double fermentation, the precise quantities of malts (7 types) as well as the mixtures of three kinds of hops (Belgian, German and Czech). Its colour is a striking deep and majestic red. Its taste is rich and full of subtlety. It is tasted like a red wine with which it shares the ruby colour without having the tannin. It develops a strong sweet smell. It confirms the initial impression in the first mouthful, with a sharp body that is balanced with a certain fruitiness. It frees itself on the palate and develops an impressive depth of taste. Some traces of burnt wood are detectable, but never scorched even if it contains this kind of malt. The foretaste is very prolonged because of its rich and unctuous development throughout the mouth. The bitter and sugar tendencies (even though there is no sugar in its composition) compete and come back together to the taster’s great satisfaction. It is a deep, mystic and extremely mature beer to be classed among the great products of their soil.