The headline for a New York Times (free registration) tasting pretty well summarizes the Belgian approach to “styles”: More or Less Pale but All Belgian.
Eric Asimov writes:
Whoa, I can hear beer connoisseurs saying. I’ve heard of Trappist ales and lambics, Belgian wheat beers and even Belgian red and brown ales, but pale ale?
They have a […]

Not sure when Philadelphia reached the “tipping point” for Belgian-inspired cafe-restaurants serving Belgian-inspired and Belgian-brewed beers, but today Don Russell writes - in his Joe Sixpack column in the Philly Daily News and his website - about five new Belgian taverns.
He begins with a review of ZoT, which we mentioned opening in February, concluding “ZoT […]

Lew Bryson asks “whether Massachusetts retailers, both on- and off-premise, or Massachusetts drinkers, get Belgian beer, and whether they’re selling and buying enough of these big-bottle, big-flavor, big-ticket beers. From my Philadelphia perspective, living in the biggest Belgian beer market in the country, where I have five local Belgian restaurants to choose from, Massachusetts is […]

Does Philadelphia, of all places, need another spot with a strong focus on Belgian beer?
Well, it’s getting one. The Beeryard reports Zot has opened at 122 Lombard St.
Among the first beers it stocked was Brugse Zot.

Over at A Good Beer Blog, Alan begins tasting the beers from Brouwerij St. Bernardus. He includes a bit of the history of the brewery that might lead you to believe it was once a monastery where beer was brewed.
Not exactly, but as Alan writes, “Correct me if I have that mixed up. I […]