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Chimay Red Cap Full flavoured, copper coloured with a soft palate

7.0 abv

33cl

2.95

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Chimay White Cap Stronger but lighter in colour than the Red Cap, with a dry hoppy bitterness (Rather like English bitter, very nice!)

8.0 abv

33cl

3.30

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Chimay Blue Cap Full, fruity and aromatic with the vintage date on the label. Will improve with age (don’t we all)

9.0 abv

33cl

3.75

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Orval This monastery makes only one beer, a dry hopped and triple fermented beer. Nice before a meal, comes in a unique skittle bottle

6.2 abv

33cl

2.85

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Westmalle Dubbel Fruity with a red brown colour. Flavours of raisins and chocolate from the dark malts but still refreshing on the finish. The monastery is near Antwerp and the beer has been brewed here for over 150 years. Regarded as being responsible for the increasing popularity of Trappist style beers as a whole, they make only two.

7.0 abv

33cl

2.95

Then just close your eyes and savour it. You are not drinking an ordinary beer, this is a Trappist beer, a beer of tradition that you are tasting.

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Westmalle Tripel A pale beer with a faintly citric fruitiness. A wide variety of hops are used which give the beer a dry complex flavour. Wonderfully herby elaborate beer. Lemon like zesty flavours complements the pale colour and dense rocky head. This beer sets the standard for all triple beers

9.5 abv

33cl

3.80

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Rochefort 8 degree The Abbey of St-Remy, in the southern part of Belgium, was founded in 1230, and the monks began to brew beer sometime around 1595. The beautiful small brewery in the abbey, Rochefort Trappistes, is one of only six Trappist breweries in the world and makes full-bodied, deeply flavoured dark ales. They are bottle-conditioned and among the world's most highly-respected beverages. Dry but rich with sweet tea and fig notes to complement the aromatic fullness

9.2 abv

33cl

3.70

Abbey style beers Now brewed by commercial breweries, but still following the old Abbey recipes

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Affligem Blonde From the De Smedt Brewery of Opwijk. This beer is brewed according to the original recipes of the Benedictine Monks of Affligem Abbey at Aalst. A bright golden ale with a delicately sweet aroma that is smooth bodied and easy to drink.

7.0 abv

33cl

2.90

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Abbaye des rocs A full tasting spicy brown Wallonian brew with ginger, orange peel, licorice and dandelions! The Abbaye des Rocs Brewery has its roots in a little picturesque village where brewing started in 1979. Production capacity was then 50 litres every two weeks. Production is now over 1,000 hl, - still very small even for a speciality Belgian brewer.

9.0abv

33cl

3.65

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Corsendonk Agnus A tripel style beer. It has a clean, yeasty bouquet, a surprisingly light, textured body beginning flowery and developing to a spicy, hoppy finish. A strong golden beer in the triple style well packaged. style, Often known as “Monk’s Pale”. This beer has considerable finesse with is clean body.

8.0

33cl

3.30

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Corsendonk Pater A Burgundy-brown colour A bottle conditioned beer. A velvety dark fruity beer - warm conditioned for 2 months. Suggestions of raisins and dark chocolate in its palate.

8.0abv

33cl

3.30

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Karmeliet Tripel Made by the small brewery Bosteels, the makers of Kwak this is a new beer using three types of grain (Barley, Wheat & Oats). Smooth and aromatic with a huge creamy head

8.0abv

33cl

3.20

Dark Style Beers

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Grottenbier “Cave Beer” so called because the beer is left to mature in caves at Kanne. Exotic spices are added to the beer to form a gentle balancing of dryness and crispness to this chestnut coloured beer. The noble St. Bernardus beers have been brewed in the St. Bernardus brewery since 1946 and are top-fermented. Brewed only with malts, hops and yeast of the very best quality..

6.5abv

33cl

3.05

Red Style Beers

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St. Feuillien Brune The Friart Brewery in French speaking Belgium was founded in 1873. From 1950, a wide range of beers began to be brewed here and, of course, St-Feuillien. An attractive, deep red colour with a rich head, soft, smooth bodyand a tasty bitter-chocolate palate with notes of pepper

7.50abv

33cl

3.75

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Rodenbach Gran Cru Probably no other brewery specialises so much in such an unusual product. A national treasure! The definitive example of Flanders red beer. Aged for two years in huge brandy casks (there are 300 of these vessels) - all uncoated oak - each containing up to 60,000 litres. This is unique in the world and helps give the sour, tart taste and very unusual red colour. This is a fully matured beer with a powerful bouquet and taste. Highly distinctive!

6.0abv

33cl

3.35

Amber/Golden Styles

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Barbar A strong pale ale spiced with honey, giving a pronounced honey note. A well balanced brew. Dry, bitter and tangy. An interesting world art label to emphasise the fact that honey was the ancient brewing sugar. It slips down the throat dangerously easily for such a strong beer

8.0abv

33cl

3.70

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Kwak Served in what has to be the most unusual glass in the world, a sort of stirrup cup! A heavy warming beer, dark and strong. Like most Belgian beers it has its own glass, in this case with a special stand as there is no flat base to the glass. In some Belgian bars they ask for a shoe as a deposit for the glass and stand (No I don’t want a smelly trainer for glass- thanks!)

8.5abv

33cl

3.20

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Brigand A lively strong beer with a robust flavour. Dry hopping with Saaz hops gives a nice hop character.

9.0abv

33cl

3.45

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Kasteelbier Brune A strong and immensely rich beer, resembling a dark port in colour. Named after the castle bought by the brewery and whose cellars are now used to mature their beers

11.0abv

33cl

3.95

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Scaldis (Bush) A distinctive extra strong brew matured for three months and with a nutty taste and distinct hop flavour. Made at Pipaix by Dubuisson, who can trace their brewing back to 1769, this is one of Belgium’s strongest beers. Recently a court case brought by Budweiser has meant that in the UK the beer has to be labelled with the name Scaldis rather than Bush - just in case you were to confuse it with Anheuser Busch.

12.0abv

25cl

3.35

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Floreffe Blonde The origins of the Lefebvre brewery, located at Quenast (in the Brabant region of Wallonia, the French speaking district of Belgium) in the valley of the Senne, goes back to 1876. Characterful blonde beer with a lot of hop character. Orangey in colour. Lefebvre’s biggest selling beer.

6.3abv

33cl

3.15

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Brugse Zot Blonde A golden blond beer with a rich froth and a fruity flavouring. The beer is brewed with four different kinds of malt and two aromatic varieties of hop which give the beer its unique taste. With an alcohol degrees proof of 6 % Vol it is a well balanced, easy drinking beer with character. Brugse Zot is a natural beer born out of a selection of only the best ingredients.

6.0 abv

33cl

3.25

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Judas Big assertive and fruity. Reminiscent of sweet oranges. Also has an earthy fresh complex hop aroma.

8.5abv

33cl

3.10

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Poperinges Hommelbier Slightly cloudy refreshing beer with a strong hop character and a light flowery taste. The intense bitter taste comes from the local hops - this area is Belgium’s biggest hop growing area, and is celebrated each year with a hop festival.

7.5abv

25cl

2.50

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Vedett Extra Blond A blonde, light, well-hopped premium beer, Vedett is the cult Duvel Moortgat beer with a retro look and innovative packaging. As Andy Warhol once said, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. Every 3 months around 250 people will have their photo on more than 5000 bottles delivered to bars. So upload your photo now! They also do a great wheat beer! See no.46

5.2 abv

33cl

2.60

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Duvel The classic strong golden ale with a large creamy head. A subtle fruitiness and distinctive delicate taste will lead you into temptation. One of the world’s great beers, Duvel means devil in Flemish and it is certainly sinfully deceptive - light in body, pale in colour. Duvel may look like a lager, but it is in fact a top fermented beer.

8.5abv

33cl

3.25

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Delirium Tremens Blonde A strong golden ale that may look like a lager beer but is in fact a complex pale ale. The painted bottle and the glass both have pink elephants and green crocodiles on, which is the result of drinking too many.. A lot of warming alcohol flavours abound along with its sweet palate.

9.0abv

33cl

3.30

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St. Feuillien Blond Aromatic and fresh with a peachy fruity aroma. Bronze in colour and distinctly hoppy and dry.

7.5abv

33cl

3.75

Beers to share!

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Chimay “Premiere” Chimay is the best known Trappist brewery - this means it has to be brewed by or under the supervision of Trappist monks in monastery premises. First brewed in 1861, Chimay brews are named after the colour of the caps. Full flavoured, rich copper coloured with a spicy, fruity flavour and a soft palate

7.0abv

75cl

6.90

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Chimay “Cinq Cents” First put into a large bottle to mark the 500th anniversary of the town of Chimay. A golden amber Trappist beer with a malty flavour. Dry and hoppy. .

8.0

75cl

7.50

Belgian Wheat (Wit) Beers

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Vedett Extra White A delicious refreshing taste from this new Belgian 'white/wit' beer. It is surprisingly crisp and punctuated with an orange and lemon like zest, rounded with a mildly bitter peppery taste and a dry finish. Brewed with natural ingredients - wheat, barley, hops, coriander and dried orange peel- unfiltered and bottle conditioned.

4.7abv

33cl

2.50

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Brugs Tarwebier A well established Belgian wheat beer originally from Gouden Boom brewery, in Bruges. Cloudy with a yeasty palate and an orangey flavour. Typically refreshing making it a summer thirst quencher.

5.0abv

33cl

2.50

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Hoegaarden Wit The famous Hoegaarden Beer, brewed in Belgium, refreshing and thirst quenching All Belgian wit beers are spiced with coriander and curacao and use raw oats and wheat. What started, as an unlikely venture in 1965 has become a fantastic success.

5.0abv

33cl

2.75

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Hoegaarden Speciale Witbiere The Speciale has a big wheat flavour this is a seasonal beer (winter) and is not always available

5.6abv

25cl

2.40

35

Watou’s Wit Bier Blanche This slightly darker, foamy, wheat beer has a definite coriander flavour. Brewed by the brewers of Popperings Hommelbier .

5.0abv

25cl

1.95

Fruit Beers from Belgium

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Timmermans Gueuze Caveau (unfiltered) A touch of malty sweetness fino sherry dryness. Refreshing fruitiness of lemons and green apples

5.0abv

33cl

2.50

38

Timmermans Framboise (raspberry) Framboise lambic is obtained by adding raspberries to the lambic. The result is a beer with a refined taste and a delicate pink colour. To be savoured in a champagne tulip.

5.0abv

33cl

2.90

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Timmermans Peche (peach) Peche lambic is obtained by adding 100% natural peach juice to the lambic resting in oak casks. The fruit itself is not added because the stone is too bitter and might change the taste of the beer. Savour this fruity beer with its creamy head in a champagne tulip.

5.0abv

33cl

2.90

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Timmermans Strawberry Its strawberry flavour confirms the nose's impression without sweetened saturation. Moreover, it's even enhanced by a real feeling of freshness, recalling those tiny green granules that found around ripened strawberries. Its taste is consistent and spreads very quickly throughout the mouth to finish its journey on a touch that is fruiter rather than sweetened.

4.0abv

33cl

3.35

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Timmermans Fruits of the Forest “It appears like a ray of sunshine in the shadow of the forest. It runs in the mouth, voluptuously expressing all its fruity flavours in the palate.With freshness similar to the wind that stirs the leaves and a very light bitter flavour enhanced by lambic, it blesses the mouth with the magical taste of wild fruit”. Well that’s two mouthfuls in one! Tastes nice too!

4.0abv

33cl

2.90

The most unusual beer style in the world where fermentation depends on wild yeasts in the atmosphere. Brewing of Lambic is only done in a small area near Brussels, by only a dozen or so brewers. When fruit is added a further fermentation occurs resulting in champagne like beer. The brewers, themselves, vary from the large to the small traditionalists. Our selection is as varied too and the beer with no fruit is called gueuze.

More Fruit Beers from Belgium

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Liefmans Goudenband One of the world’s finest brown ales excellent for drinking and cooking withThe classic brown ale brewery of Oudenaarde in the province of East Flanders in Belgium. It can trace its roots to 1679 and is still a charming brewery with plenty of old copper vessels. In the UK the brewery is most famous for its fruit beers made from the brown ale base..

8.0abv

37.5cl

4.40

45

Liefmans Kriek (cherry) Liefmans Fruit Beers are from the world renowned and classic brown ale brewery, which has the reputation of making delectable beers. Bottles are hand wrapped in tissue paper - an eye-catching, premium product. Liefmans Kriek is brewed once a year – the brewery add cherries to some of its brown ale and allows further fermentation individually hand wrapped half champagne bottles which are corked and wired showing the care that is taken in making this wonderful cherry beer

6.0abv

37.5cl

4.50

46

Liefmans Frambozen (Raspberry) The classic brown ale brewery Liefmans makes this beer, matured for over a year then adds pressed raspberries to some of its brown ale and allows further fermentation. The finished product is deliciously smooth and dark with a delicate raspberry aroma and slightly sweet flavour. A lovely brewery making truly great beers that Liefmans Fruit Beers are from the world renowned and classic brown ale brewery, which has the reputation of making delectable beers..

4.5abv

37.5cl

4.60

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Guinness Export from John Martin There are a surprising number of different Guinness’ available worldwide. This is but one “Special Export” - a much more intense chocolate, burnt experience than available generally in the U.K. It’s also a massive 8.o abv

8.0abv

33cl

3.70

Throughout the world Liefmans is famous for its unique fruit beers. The base beer, Goudenband, a top fermented brown ale is superb on its own. The Kriek (Cherry) is made once a year, traditionally from the Schaerbeek cherries, which are allowed to dry like prunes on the tree. These cherries are doubly scarce as the birds enjoy them too! The drying intensifies the flavour, as in sun-dried tomatoes and concentrates the fermentable sugars. The cherries mature together with the Goudenband for at least six months and produce a fruity and refreshing beer. Framozenbier of Framboise (Raspberry) is a subtle sweet blend of raspberries with the Goudenband beer.

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Gordon’s Scotch Ale (Scotland) This is a style of beer produced especially for Belgian market. Brewed in Edinburgh for export only. Originally brewed at the time of the First World War for British servicemen and the Belgians got a taste for it. It’s strong dark and malty with a deep roasted malty flavour.

8.6abv

33cl

3.65

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Gordon’s Finest Gold (Scotland) Super strong pale beer, marketed exclusively in Belgium through John Martin. Served in the thistle shaped glass. This is a style of beer produced especially for the Belgian market. Brewed in Edinburgh for export only. Originally brewed at the time of the First World War for British servicemen and the Belgians got a taste for it. Well worth a taste!

10.0abv

33cl

3.95

50

Lindeboom – Holland Lindeboom ‘Lime Tree’ takes its name from the old Lime tree in the brewery yard. The brewer dates from 1790 and the Geenan brothers pride themselves in using all natural ingredients to produce this pleasing, well balanced, fresh tasting pilsner with a bitterness staying to the end.

5.0abv

50cl

2.80

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Samiclaus - Austria One of the rarest beers in the world. It is brewed on only one day of the year - December 6th (St. Nicolas day) and fermented and matured for ten months before bottling. The vintage beer results with a whacking strength of 14% abv! Samiclaus also claims to be the strongest beer in the world.

14.0abv

33cl

5.45

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Peroni Nastro Azzuro Italy Italy has the lowest beer consumption in Europe. The country’s largest brewer is Peroni and the main product is a well balanced distinctive beer known as Blue Riband. Well respected and brewed since 1846.

5.1 abv

33cl

£2.50

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Corona Extra Mexico A light refreshing lager in a clear bottle. Served with a slice of lime

4.6 abv

33cl

£2.50

Alcohol Free Beers

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Erdinger Wheat Beer - Germany Whether at work, before driving or after sports, there are certain occasions where it is wiser to avoid alcohol. For those who don't want to miss out on the delicious taste of wheat beer, though, the solution is Erdinger Weissbier 'non-alcoholic'. It is brewed with the customary care and experience gained from over 110 years of brewing tradition and in accordance with the highest quality standards. Erdinger's master brewers have succeeded in retaining the aromatic, full-bodied Erdinger character - even without alcohol. It is this unique flavor which has spread the fame of Erdinger Weissbräu far beyond the borders of Germany.

0.4abv

. 50cl

2.00

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Jupiler Non Alcoholic – Belgium A good Belgian version of alcohol free beer

0.5 abv

25cl

£1.50

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Becks Non Alcoholic – Germany The great taste of Becks with no alcohol

0.5 abv

25cl

£1.50

The following beers are what we consider to be acceptable alternatives for people who cannot or wish not to drink beer with alcohol in. These beers are suitable for drivers. But please note that they do contain a slight amount of alcohol. In our opinion they offer a far better alternative for beer drinkers who are driving and do not want to drink pop or soft drinks all night. To avoid confusion all beers that we offer in non alcoholic forms are not available at the normal strength so if you are in a round you can order your beer by name and know that you are getting a product with no, or little, alcohol in it. Have a good night and drive safely!