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 […]

Pacific Brew News Radio tasted a few beers with Martin Lodahl, who was writing about brewing Belgian-inspired beers back when making them in the United States was pretty much the domain of homebrewers.
I’d suggest grabbing one or more of these beer first: Ommegang Hennepin, Dupont Moinette Brune, Affligem Tripel and/or Allagash Four, then give a […]

Alan McLeod has a recap of Friday’s “The Session,” with scores of bloggers drinking and writing about Belgian-style dubbels. I recommend taking the time to click through all the links. For one thing you’ll see a range of descriptions of Westmalle Dubbel.
(Personally I went with a local brewpub dubbel.)
You may well have a different takeway, […]

Friday is the “Day of the Dubbels,” when bloggers from here and there will be drinking the Belgian-inspired beers and writing about what they taste (or whatever they want, really).
I’ll be participating in The Session II at Appellation Beer rather than here because next month we’ll likely be tasting something non-Belgian in nature.
In preparing for […]

A couple of months ago I promised more about what Brother Thelonious (with the fabulous label) tastes like.
You’ll find that at Appellation Beer.