The Foreign Beers
- Trappist
- Rochfort 6: 7.5%
- The single, lovely and surprisingly drinkable. Rare, even in Belgium.
- Rochfort 8: 9.2%
- Light to dark classic ale, full of flavours, milder than its big brother.
- Rochfort 10: 11.3%
- This ale needs to be drunk in front of a roaring log fire with cheese. Full of flavours.
- Westmalle Tripel: 9.5%
- Lighter coloured full flavoured ale, excellent.
- Orval: 6.2%
- All its own flavours with a back taste of oranges.
- Lambic
- Cantillion Geuze: 5%
- Sharp, tart and sour. Fantastic.
- Cantillion Kriek: 5%
- The kick of real fruit cherry and sour.
- Cantillion Rose de Gambrinus: 5%
- Mix of Cherry and raspberry, again really sour.
- Girardin Black Label Geuze: 5%
- Lovely Geuze, not so sharp but sooo drinkable.
- De Cam Geuze: 5.5%
- Fantastic offering from this relatively new Lambic brewer/blender.
- Girardin Framboise: 5%
- Edging toward the sweet, full of raspberry flavour.
- Hansens Geuze: 6% S
- Sharp, tart and sour, slightly more subtle than Cantillion.
- Hansens Kriek: 6%
- Again, sour and full of the flavour of cherry.
- Drie Fontainen Geuze: 6%
- Places itself between Cantillion and Hanssens, fantastic.
- Drie Fontainen Kriek: 6%
- Again, full sour hit of real cherry.
- Belgian ales and others
- Kerkom Blond: 5.5%
- Tasty, aromatic Blond ale.
- Kerkom Bruin: 5.5%
- Very tasty dryish brown ale.
- Kerkom Tripel: 8%
- More like a trappist, fantastic.
- Proef Reinaert Grand Cru: 9%
- Mix of flavours in this fantastic Grand Cru, strong!
- De Doller Extra Export Stout: 9%
- Gives Guinness a good kicking.
- Echte Kriek: 6%
- Lightly sour brown-beer-based Cherry beer.
- Bolens Bierken: 8.5%
- Gorgeous honey ale.
- Moinette: 8.5%
- Classic blond ale, enjoy.
- Saison Dupont: 6.5%
- One of the few surviving real Saison beers. Fantastic.
- De Ranke XX Bitter: 6.2%
- Hops Hops Hops and more Hops. Yum.
- Bosteels Kamerlit Tripel: 8%
- Classic strong light ale.
- Strubbe Houten Kop: 6.5%
- Lovely pale ale.
- Carocole Nostradamus: 9.5%
- One of the ultimate dark beers. More please.
- Van Steenberge Bios Oud Bruin: 5.5%
- One of the few remaining examples of this classic beer style.
- Paeleman Echt Kriekenbier: 5%
- Sourish brown beer based on cherry beer.
- T'Smije Honingbier: 6%
- Another fantastic beer with honey.
- T'Smijse Dubbel: ?%
- One of the best Dubbels available. Yum.
- Dutch
- Leeuw Valkenburg Wit: 4.8%
- All time classic citric Wheat beer. Refreshing. Lovely.
- Christoffel Blond: 6%
- Pilsner-style Blond, with classic nose.
- Haarlem Old Ale : 10%
- What a real old ale should be, dark & flavoursome.
- Haarlem Barley Wine: 12%
- Really strong barley wine. Full of flavours.
- T'ij Coloumbus: 9%
- Classic dark strong ale from the original Amsterdam Micro brewery.
- Volentlam Oster Dark: 9.5%
- New beer to us. Looks good.
- Schoonlaptje : 6.5%
- Beer with blackcurrants. Strong with full flavour.
- Schans Blond Bier: 6%
- Classic Dutch blond beer.
- Texel Blond Bier: 5%
- New offering from this brewery.
- Parel Wheat Beer: 5.7%
- Slightly more towards the bubblegum style flavour than Leeuw.
- German
- Schneider Aventinus: 8%
- The classic dark German Wheat beer.
- Mahrs Weisenbok: 7.2%
- Cross between a Weisse and a bok. Lovely beer.
- Augustiener Hell: 5.2%
- Classic Helles, light and refreshing.
- Muhlen Kolsch: 4.8%
- Fantastic Kolsch beer.
- Fruh Kolsch: 4.8%
- Classic Kolsch beer.
- Weltenberger Kloster Barcok Dunkel: 7.2%
- Strong dark interesting beer.
- Weltenberger Hefe Weissbier Dunkel: 5.2%
- Dark Wheat beer. Yum.
- Schlenkerla Rauchbier: 5.1%
- The smoked dark beer, like eating a beefburger, yum!
- Jever Pils: 4.8%
- Lovely hoppy Pilsner beer, old favorite.
- St Georgian Kellerbier: 4.9%
- Darkish kellerbier with a beautiful flavour.
- Herren Pils: 4.8%
- Not as hoppy as lever, cross between Augustiner and Jever.
- Augustiner Maximator: 7%
- Dark strong beer.
- Urige Alt: 5%
- Classic beer in the Alt style from Dusseldorf.
- Fuchshen Alt: 5%
- Micro brewery in Dusseldor£ as good as Urige.
- TBN:
- Wheat Beer
- Czech
- TBN
- Beers will appear in programme available from the Foreign Bar.
- Northern French
- Escelbeque Blond: 6.5%
- Classic northern French blond beer
- Gavroche: 8.5%
- An old favorite returns. Strong ale from Northern France.
- Draught
- Leeuw Valkenburg Wit: 4.8%
- See above
- Drie Fontainen Lambic: 5%
- The base beer for production of all styles of Lambic. This is fantastic.
- Augustiner Helles: 5.2%
- Classic German helles, better on draught.
- Echte Kriek: 6%
- Slightly sour brown based cherry beer
- Jopen Hoppenbier : 7.2%
- Really hoppy light beer.
- Schlenkerla Rauchbier: 5.2%
- Draught version of the bottle. Even better on draught?
- Reissdoif Kolsch: 4.8%
- Beautiful Kolsch, slightly drier than the others.
- Uriege Alt: 5%
- This classic from draught. Yum.
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