Mats Olsson. Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 Ever tried Kvak? /Mats http://www.lexam.net/peter/carnut/man.gif What do we want? Procrastination! When do we want it? Later! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salyphus Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 Mmmmmm....Duvel, one of my favorites as well! [img]http://www.beermania.be/beer_images/duvel.jpg[/img] Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mats Olsson. Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 [b]Kwak[/b] This Belgian beer brings the sun out on a cold damp winter day! A dark beer it has a treakley, fruity flavour yet manages to remain lighter than most dark beers. In Belgium you are quite likely to be asked for a shoe before you get your Kwak. The reason is that it is served in a rather nifty glass that looks, for all the world, like a stubby bulb-bottomed, yard-of-ale glass. This sits in a wooden holder which you can pick up like a tankard. You only get your shoe back when the landlord gets his glass back! [img]http://www.globalbeer.com/web/body_pages/belgium/Trip2002/pictures/cafe-de-la-paix-family-por.jpg[/img] A bunch of belgian drunkards, all of whom is missing a shoe! [b]Kwak[/b] is named after Pauwel Kwak who first brewed this gourmet beer in 1791. The family-owned Brewery Bosteels located in Buggenhout, Belgium, brews Kwak in the zuur Flanders style, producing a dry, assertively tart beer. Kwak has a slighlty sweet flavour, a fruity aftertaste, and a hint of bitterness. Top-fermented, it has a rich, copper colour with a creamy head. The distincitve glass originated from coachmen needing a way to enjoy beer since Napoleonic Code forbade them sharing a drink with the passengers. Kwak developed this glass so the coachmen could remain seated yet hang the glass on the coach and enjoy the rich beer too. (8% ABV) [img]http://www.mbibeer.com/beer/images/kwbotb.jpg[/img] Great links to beer labels of the world: [url=http://tolsun.oulu.fi/kbs-bin/directbeer?Nr=353]web page[/url] Slainthe! /Mats http://www.lexam.net/peter/carnut/man.gif What do we want? Procrastination! When do we want it? Later! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunny Knutson Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 No, I've never had Kvak. (That's what a German duck says. :freak: ) And, Sal, that's quite a head on that beer! :eek: [I was going to say, "I prefer less head," but I just couldn't bring myself to post that sentence. :D ] https://bunny.bandcamp.com/ https://theystolemycrayon.bandcamp.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salyphus Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 [quote]Originally posted by Mats_Olsson: [b] The distincitve glass originated from coachmen needing a way to enjoy beer since Napoleonic Code forbade them sharing a drink with the passengers. Kwak developed this glass so the coachmen could remain seated yet hang the glass on the coach and enjoy the rich beer too. (8% ABV) [/b][/quote]Ah, the good old days, when drinking and driving was not only acceptable, but actively encouraged :eek: Great story Mats ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeon Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 good spot, bluebus! :D she is quite fetching to me anyway. :) and to those in this thread who love a good Duvel, my hat is off to you...your taste is impeccable, and above reproach! :thu: Go tell someone you love that you love them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mats Olsson. Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 More beer trivia: [b]Duvel[/b] One of the classics of the drinking world. To drink the first glass of this beer you would be hard pushed to realise that it was 8.5%, but such is the lightness of its colour with its high rising creamy head, and a taste so innocent you are greatly deceived, but only until the second glass. No wonder it has the name it does. The name does indeed mean: Devil and is pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable: Doo-vel. Brewed to the north of Brussels at Breendonk by the Moortgat brewery, this beer is in a style of its own. Although a top fermenting beer it is recommended that it be drunk quite cold - and I would recommend as well a very tall glass, if you can't get hold of one of their own, try as you might you wont get this beer to produce anything less than a head as high again as the beer itself. The beer's complexity is achieved through a triple fermentation using the Saaz and Styrian Goldings hops to give it its bouquet and flavour. The brewery also makes the Abbey styled beer Maredsous. /Mats PS Bonus trivia: how to poperly pronounce all those crazy belgian beer names: [url=http://www.belgianstyle.com/mmguide/pronounce/speak.html]web page[/url] PS 2 if you were ever wondering what all those giant bottles are called, here you go... 1.5L Magnum 3L Jeroboam 4.5L Rehoboam 6L Methuselah 9L Salmanazar 12L Balthazar 15L Nebuchadnezzar I guess a Jeroboam of Duvel could get you pretty messed up! http://www.lexam.net/peter/carnut/man.gif What do we want? Procrastination! When do we want it? Later! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunny Knutson Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 [img]http://home.attbi.com/~ianlamb/lena.jpg[/img] [img]http://home.attbi.com/~ianlamb/lena.jpg[/img] [img]http://home.attbi.com/~ianlamb/lena.jpg[/img] [img]http://home.attbi.com/~ianlamb/lena.jpg[/img] https://bunny.bandcamp.com/ https://theystolemycrayon.bandcamp.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salyphus Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 She must be the shy sensitive 'george' of that particular [i]rocking teenage combo.[/i] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunny Knutson Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 BTW, call me a cretin if you must, but I prefer to drink Duvel out of the bottle, as it was served to me in Belgium. :) Cretin? https://bunny.bandcamp.com/ https://theystolemycrayon.bandcamp.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mats Olsson. Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 The strong stuff: [img]http://www.belgianstyle.com/mmguide/example/tremens.gif[/img] [img]http://www.belgianstyle.com/mmguide/example/guillotine.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.belgianstyle.com/mmguide/example/lucifer.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.belgianstyle.com/mmguide/example/hellekapelle.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.belgianstyle.com/mmguide/example/fantome.gif[/img] Life is good! /Mats PS Saturday morning bonus label: [img]http://www.belgianstyle.com/mmguide/example/scotch.jpg[/img] PS 2 Red light district bonus label: [img]http://www.belgianstyle.com/mmguide/example/hoegaarden.gif[/img] http://www.lexam.net/peter/carnut/man.gif What do we want? Procrastination! When do we want it? Later! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salyphus Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 dBunny: ulp :confused: How could they do that to you? You gotta try it in a glass ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeon Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 Delirium Tremens is good, good stuff! :) [img]http://www.belgianstyle.com/mmguide/example/tremens.gif[/img] As long as we are having some fine Belgian ale, how about some caviar too? :D [img]http://home.attbi.com/~ianlamb/tattoo829.jpg[/img] Go tell someone you love that you love them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mats Olsson. Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 And some beer for lliB retsoF: [img]http://www.belgianstyle.com/mmguide/example/bush.gif[/img] (the WMD of beers, 12% ABV) /Mats http://www.lexam.net/peter/carnut/man.gif What do we want? Procrastination! When do we want it? Later! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyscots Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 Ah Belgium! Land of the Beer! Apparently there are more different beers brewed in Belgium than in any other country in the world. Out of the ones you mentioned Mats, you can only get Hoegaarden here. Thats OK tho, coz I love tha Hoe! Anyway. yeah, well said Phil! Also well said Geoff, there's no way we would act so volatilely (sp?) in person so why should we here. Good health and well being to all, enjoy your beer! John Scotsman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffinator Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 Whfut's thbat yjhou sahey? Ig'm snjorry if I canjr't sejinem to t]y[pe v9ery w,ell I th9ink I"ve h3ad to0o m4any of th94e56se... [img]http://www.samadams.com/beer/images/double_bock-label.gif[/img] D8jamn, I lo34ve Bo0ck seas?on!!! A bunch of loud, obnoxious music I USED to make with friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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