We welcome Brouwers Verzet to our beer club. I first had this beer several years ago, sitting in the summer sun at the Moeder Lambic bar in Brussels. It was something very different for a Belgian brewery and one that stuck in my head…until now.
The brewery was started by three students who were in the final year of the biochemistry degree. There was an offer to the students to study brewing science, and only three students accepted. They went on to found Brouwers Verzet together.
With brewing pedigrees including De Proef and Omer in Belgium, and New Belgium Brewery in the US, the guys have experience brewing across a broad range of styles, and atypical for Belgium.
Golden Tricky is a tribute to their local priest Patrick, whose nickname is ‘Tricky’, when he was heading off to India for volunteer work in India, were mangos are the national fruit.
It’s a crisp, light bodied beer with a refreshing bitterness and subtle Belgian yeast character. Ella hops from Australia provide the tropical mango character. (No mangoes were harmed in the production of this beer!)
A second version of this beer, with a dominant display from the Morpheus yeast supported by Cascade and Chinook hops
A Belgian IPA with Challenger, Smaragd and Citra hops, finished with a Belgian saison yeast
Hop bitterness, with dry spicing and just a hint of wild earthy funk
A bigger, hoppier version of the Noblesse Belgian Pale Ale
A Belgian classic - Duvel - with a current hop-driven twist
The classical Belgian Strong Blond Ale, jazzed up with an extra hop that changes each year
The 2015 special edition Duvel Tripel Hop features the Equinox hop
The 2016 version of Duvel's Tripel Hop, featuring an experimental hop from the Yakima Valley
This is now the permanent feature in the Duvel range, with the Citra version being voted the favourite of all the Duvel Tripel Hop varieties
The 'other' Duvel Tripel Hop in the range shows of Cashmere hops
The favourite of the Duvel Tripel Hop series is the Citra hop version
Five old-world hops are used in this fresh grassy Belgian IPA
The original Belgian IPA, from one of the three breweries in the 'Brewers Town' of Watou.
A seasonal batch of Hopus brewed in Spring, which is dry-hopped with Citra
by Brasserie d'Achouffe (Brouwerij Duvel Moortgat)
Best described as an extremely hoppy Belgian tripel style
A Belgian IPA with a strong citrus character and nice earthy bitterness
A Belgian IPA using Mapuche hops grown exclusively for Leffe on the plains of Patagonia
Another riff of the Troubadour Magma, this one is a more sessionable, last of the summer sun type of beer
The 2016 variation of Troubadour's flagship beer Magma features Maris Otter premium malt
The 2017 variant of Magma sees a change in malt and hop quantities, resulting in a fruity, earthy and dry IPA
The 2019 variant of Troubadour's Magma is a beer that has been made more sessional, with the addition of El Dorado and Nelson Sauvin hops
A perfectly balanced Belgian IPA, deceptively drinkable for the 9.5% ABV.
Not really fitting in to a style category - inviting sweet malt backbone with a good dose of hop bitterness.
A Belgian style IPA, taking a step back to an older style IPA recipe
The second incarnation of this beer, featuring Columbus, Simcoe, Amarillo and Centennial hops
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An Anglo-Belgian style IPA, with a big malt body and balanced hop character
A Belgian strong dark ale with smoked malt and grilled cherries
A light and sessionable Belgian Pale Ale (or light Belgian Blond) that proudly uses 'No American Hops'
