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A Beer Taste Event
Topic Started: Feb 6 2005, 04:35 AM (157 Views)
jrf
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Found a good beer. A very good beer. Expensive though.

Grimbergen
There were two of them
Grimbergen Double (Dubbel) a dark beer.

and Grimbergen Blonde a beer colored beer.

They say its an Abbey beer. I think its Belgian.

Don't be fooled. The bottles are only 11.2 oz. not the std 12 oz. Course in Louisiana a lot of beer is in 10 oz.

The dark or Double is what my wife and I both liked best of the two. This stuff is good.

Its smooth and has a huge head on it. If Sylvia makes you laugh it burns as it comes through the nostrils. Backwards.

The foam reminds me of a root beer float foam when you dump the root beer right on top of the ice cream. It hangs right in there and takes on some really weird shapes. I saw a bunny rabbit in my foam.

One should probably have a special glass for this beer. Not your regular beer glass or big goblet. Something in the middle. No gulping, but you've got to get to the beer under the foam. The foam stays put and doesn't dump out of the glass while you're drinking it.

There's not a lot of bubbles in this beer. It has a really wine type of taste to it, both the blonde and the dark did. Its like drinking beer candy or something.

I bought a six pack and wife headed out to visit the grandurchins. She said if I didn't save her one she'd shear my manhood (sort of that's what she said) and she doesn't drink. I'm gonna have a hard time saving her one. Its that good.

It cost me ten bucks a six pack. I should never have taken my wife to the beer tasting and should never have asked her opinion. Oh well. Live and learn.

Honorable Mention from the tasting would be Carlsberg. It tasted good. I can't remember much about it because there were so many other beers that were soooooo bad that to say it was good should suffice.

I learned that there are a lot of bad beers in this world.

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:wub: Or.... :wub:


From a book on Druidic practices -
a recipe for:

LOVE POTION TEA

1 pinch of rosemary
2 teaspoons of black tea
3 pinches thyme
3 pinches nutmeg
3 fresh mint leaves
6 fresh rose petals
6 lemon leaves
3 cups pure spring water
Sugar
Honey


To make another person fall in love with you, brew this tea on a Friday during a waxing moon (moving from empty to full).
Place all ingredients in an earthenware or copper tea kettle. Boil three cups of pure spring water and add to the kettle. Sweeten with sugar and honey, if desired.

Before drinking, recite this rhyme:

BY LIGHT OF MOON WAXING
I BREW THIS TEA
TO MAKE [lover's name] DESIRE ME.


Drink some of the tea and say:
GODDESS OF LOVE
HEAR NOW MY PLEA
LET [lover's name] DESIRE ME!
SO MOTE IT BE
SO MOTE IT BE

On the following Friday, brew another pot of the love potion tea and give some to the person you want to love you. He or she will soon begin to fall in love with you.

All in fun - but good luck!!!
THE LOVE MACHINE
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cmoehle
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Joel, how many of those beers you drink, I think you're seeing things like Cupids!


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jrf
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It was a very narrow building, and got crowded quick. Some of the women were not appropriately dressed for the close quarters. I wasn't impressed but I could have kept it to myself. There I go always other peoples' behavior. Like I actually have a rght to comment.

I think I'll change that comment.

Me and my wife got there before it was too crowded and were out in 45 minutes.

There were 4 tables set up, one for each representative, each having about 4 products. As we worked our way toward the back most products got worse. Then we were almost stuck back there and there were some folks coming in a back door. Things like that always make me wonder.

Someone threw a promo T-Shirt thru the air. It got in a party atmophere. Something I'm not used to.

We were glad we went, but happy to leave.

My wife got the T-shirt.

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cmoehle
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Well, I'll look for the Grimbergen but may have to come to OK to find it. ;)
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Heathertee
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Did you read your comics this morning?
Here's a timely one:

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sebo
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Grimbergen is a famous beer here. Their 'Triple' is fairly light compared to most other brands as there isn't a strong 'malty' after taste like in most triple beers, and you don't taste the 9 degrees. The Double is quite thicker and amber-coloured, 6 or 7 degrees I think, but it also has a very smooth and 'refreshing' taste. Neither of them make a lot of foam, as opposed to the Chimay trappistes. They are really great to drink slowly out in the countryside on a warm summer day.

As for the bottle sizes, they are 33cl, but come in shorter and wider bottles than a typical 33cl beer bottle. This format is reserved for 'Abbey' beers, also known as a 'trappiste'. It is still quite expensive here compared to industrial beers as it is very rare to find a draft grimbergen.

I think Maes (a beer manufacturer) has a contract with them for drafting, and it is becoming popular in French bars.

I'd show you some pics but I can't find the link for my digital camera :(
Great choice by the way ;)


p.s. If you like the Grimbergen Double, I recommend the Leffe Brune
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wolfgoddess
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Feb 10 2005, 03:16 AM
From a book on Druidic practices -
a recipe for:

LOVE POTION TEA


Sugar
Honey




:scratch: I wounder whom I can borrow these ingredients from :floorrollin:
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Gerry
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If you like the Grimbergen Double, I recommend the Leffe Brune


I've had the Leffe Brune and what a great beer, Sebo!

Here in Ontario, we have both the Brune and the Blonde available and both are excellent beers. Any of the Trappiste beers I've been able to get my hands on have been incredible!!
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jrf
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$10.50 per six pack of bottles here. Its got to be a special treat.
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I might be biased but Australian beer is pretty good too, not Fosters, see if you can get some Cascade from Hobart, Tasmania; Carlton from Victoria is also quite drinkable.
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jrf
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Hi Poddy Dodger. I'll look around and if I see some of those I'll try one.

I had a Fosters once and didn't care for it, but around here one never can tell whether its the beer that's bad or just the treatment the beer got. I've actually tasted differences in the same beer from different stores.

Thanks for the post and keep those suggestions coming. :)
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Outback Annie
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G'day Poddy,

I too am an aussie now living in the Mojave Desert. (and from the Gold Coast mind you) :faint:

Anyway.....not that I'm a beer drinker but seeing as Beer is a major subject taught in all our schools from kindergarten age ;) I would have to add my 2 cents worth here and say that Crown Lager would surely have to rate "Up there" for beer don't ya think??
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