Inspired by the Babylone beer from Brussels Beer Project, the innovative and experimental Kaapse Brouwers also turned their hand to producing a beer from unsold bread.
Collaborating with the nearby Jordy’s Bakery. This beer replaces 30% of the malt bill with unsold sourdough bread from the bakery. In all 270 kilos of bread was used to produce a 5,000 litre batch of beer. The beer was released last year at the annual Beer Festival of the Cape Brewers.
With the growing number of bread beers being produced, we may need to create a specialty category, but for now we’ll nominally class this beer as a Belgian Style Strong Blonde Ale.
It pours pretty still, and is a good bit darker than a blonde ale. Naturally it has quite a grainy malt body, though with some extra sweetness in there making the body a little heavier. Slightly fruity and with a little spice, it finishes with a moderate bitterness and a little sticky sweetness. An interesting experiment!
An interesting beer from Alvinne, and one of Belgium's most bitter beers at 115 IBU
by Abdij Averbode (Brouwerij Huyghe)
A multi grain mix of barley oats and spelt, plus dry-hopping make this strong blonde ale a really interesting creation
A Strong Blonde Ale cross Belgian Tripel, with oak chips used in the brewing process to add a hint of vanilla
by Brouwerij De Hoorn (Palm - Swinkels)
A Belgian Strong Blond Ale aged on oak chips
The 'Devil's' little brother, made to the same recipe but without secondary fermentation in the bottle
by Brouwerij van Hoegaarden (AB InBev)
Like a super-charged Hoegaarden witbier...but better
A special Belgian Strong Pale Ale that is the only Belgian beer to use Witloof
Like a bigger, tastier (and classier) version of the classic Leffe Blond
A strong blond ale in the style of Duvel, brewed by Het Anker brewery
A delicious strong blond ale with a crisp malt body and a nice hop bitterness
The world renowned Belgian Blond Ale from Orval Trappist Monastery. There simply is no other beer like Orval.
by Brouwerij Palm (Swinkels Family Brewers)
A fruity, malty Belgian pale ale, originally brewed in 2003 to celebrate the 90th birthday of the brewey's former head brewer.
by Brouwerij Verstraete (Deca Services)
An unfiltered, unpasteurised, dry-hopped strong blond ale with barley, oats and wheat in the grain bill
A classic strong pale ale from one of Belgium's old family breweries.
A variation on the acclaimed Piraat strong blond ale, this time with four different hops added at three separate times during the beer-making process
A delicious, complex but light and dry Belgian Strong Blonde Ale from Brasserie St Feuillien
A special Belgian Blonde ale, dry-hopped with Cascade hops. A tribute to Armand Desplenter, one of the founding brewers
A full malt body, spicy Belgian yeast and five different hops in this strong blonde ale
An IPA featuring a bevy of different hops, with a big caramel malt body
An American Bitter which has been 'de-glutenised' with the use of a special enzyme
A rich, spice winter beer is just the thing to warm up on a cold winters night
A Vermont Pale Ale - a really soft, juicy and very easy-drinking beer
'Tess' is a White White Saison - a farmhouse ale fermented on Pinot Grigio white wine barrels and hopped with Hallertau Blanc hops
An oatmeal stout with a rich, creamy and luxurious chocolatey flavour
