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Chapeau Kriek

3.5% Lambic Style Fruit Beer, usually available at The Blackfriars Tavern in Great Yarmouth, FB: BlackfriarsTavern

Chapeau Kriek is a cherry-flavoured lambic beer from Brewery De Troch. Specialising in lambic beers, Brewery De Troch has been brewing in Wambeek, located in the countryside around Brussels, since the 19th century. Brewed using natural cherry juice, Chapeau Kriek is tart and fruity, with a bold cherry flavour. Pouring a dark pink colour, Chapeau Kriek offers up aromas of cherry, almond and a hint of earthy funk. The flavour is fresh and fruity, with sour cherry on the finish.

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Chapeau Cuvee Oude Gueuze

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Post date 23 August 2022
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3.5% Lambic Style Fruit Beer, usually available at The Blackfriars Tavern in Great Yarmouth, FB: BlackfriarsTavern

Chapeau Lemon is a lemon-flavoured lambic beer from Brewery De Troch. Specialising in lambic beers, Brewery De Troch has been brewing in Wambeek, located in the countryside around Brussels, since the 19th century. Brewed with natural lemon juice, this lambic ale is tart and fruity, with a citrusy zing. Pouring a hazy lemon-yellow colour, Chapeau Lemon offers up aromas of cider apples, candied lemon and Belgian yeast aromas. The flavour is sour, with a hint of sweetness and citrus flavours.

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Chapeau Cuvee Oude Gueuze

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Post date 23 August 2022
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5.5% Lambic Style – Gueze, usually available at The Blackfriars Tavern in Great Yarmouth, FB: BlackfriarsTavern

Chapeau Cuvée Oude Gueuze 375ml is a gueuze from Belgian lambic brewery, De Troch. Specialising in lambic beers, including kreiks, fruit lambics and gueuze beers, Brewery De Troch has been brewing in Wambeek, near Brussels, since the 19th century. Chapeau Cuvée Oude Gueuze is aged for at least 2 years and is recognised as a Certified Regional Product of Vlaams Brabant by the Belgian authorities. Pouring a hazy orange colour, Chapeau Cuvée Oude Gueuze offers up honey, floral and grassy aromas. The flavour is sour, with a honey sweetness and a tart, apple cider-esque finish.

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La Devine

9.5% Belgian Style Fruit Strong Ale, usually available at The Blackfriars Tavern in Great Yarmouth, FB: BlackfriarsTavern

La Divine is a Belgian strong ale from Belgian brewery Brasserie de Silly. Established in the Belgian village of Silly in 1850, this family-owned brewer is serious about beer! La Divine is Belgian Tripel ale – brewed with three times the malt compared with a standard Belgian ale – with a rich, fruity flavour and pleasant warming effect from the 9.5% ABV. Pouring a hazy deep amber colour, La Divine offers up a mild aroma, with hints of fruit and malt sweetness. The flavour is sweet and fruity, with hints of caramel and orange bitterness. The strength and sweetness of this Belgian strong ale make it perfect for after a meal. Buy La Divine for a rich, sweet Belgian ale from Brasserie de Silly.

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Boon Oude Kriek

6.6% Lambic Style Fruit Beer, usually available at The Blackfriars Tavern in Great Yarmouth, FB: BlackfriarsTavern

Boon Oude Kriek is an aged fruit lambic beer from Belgian brewers Boon. Boon is a specialist lambic brewery and reputedly has the largest stock of lambic beer in oak barrels in the world. Lambic beer is a Belgian style beer fermented using wild yeast and bacteria from the air around the Zenne valley, where this style originated. Gueuze, kriek lambic and framboise are all styles of lambic beer.

Boon Oude Kriek is a blend of oak-aged Boon lambic beer with fresh wild cherries. The addition of 400g of wild cherries per litre of beer gives Boon Oude Kriek an intense, sweet and sour cherry flavour, and deep cherry-red colour. The beer is unfiltered, unpasteurised and unsweetened, and the funky, sour flavours from the aged lambic beer balance perfectly with the sweetness of the cherries. Buy Boon Oude Kriek for an authentic Belgian kriek lambic beer, brewed in the traditional style.

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Boon Kriek

4% Lambic Style Fruit Beer, usually available at The Blackfriars Tavern in Great Yarmouth, FB: BlackfriarsTavern

A lambic blend is given further fermentation by the addition of fruit, originally cherries local to the area, which after conditioning gives a pronounced cherry flavour and almondy dryness. A classic example of the style with a lot of fruit content of freshly harvested cherries. The beer is conditioned in wood over a winter.

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Hanssens Oude Kriek

6.5% Lambic Fruit Beer, usually available at The Blackfriars Tavern in Great Yarmouth, FB: BlackfriarsTavern

This is the result of blending black cherries lambic of different ages followed by a second fermentation in the bottle. Storage is similar like gueuze. All bottles are champagne corked and can be reserved, in normal conditions, for more than thirty years. It is obvious that an amazing taste evolution takes place.

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Fagnes Triple

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

Super des Fagnes Triple is a beer that is refermented in the bottle.It is a sublime copper colour with a fragrant nose and subtle fruity flavour.

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Fagnes Blonde

7.5% Belgian Style Ale, usually available at The Blackfriars Tavern in Great Yarmouth, FB: BlackfriarsTavern

A blond beer of high fermentation. A hoppy and flavourful aroma. On the palate sweet, malty, fruity and spicy flavours. A delicate and pleasant bitter aftertaste.

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Chimay Red

8% Belgian Style Abbey Dubbel, usually available at The Blackfriars Tavern in Great Yarmouth, FB: BlackfriarsTavern

This Trappist beer possesses a beautiful coppery colour that makes it particularly attractive. Topped with a creamy head, it gives off a slight fruity apricot smell from the fermentation. The aroma felt in the mouth is a balance confirming the fruit nuances revealed to the sense of smell.

This traditional Belgian beer is best savoured at cellar temperature (10 – 12°C).