ALE No. 306: 29th Cambridge Beer Festival : Foreign Beers
Foreign Beers
Last updated: 10-May-2002
Trappist Beers
- Achel - New light Trappist ale
- Orval - Light, hint of oranges
- Rochfort 10 - Strong, dark ale
- Westmalle Tripel - Strong, light ale
Lambic Beers
- Cantillion Geuze - The sharpest and sourest Gueuze, excellent!
- Cantillion Kriek - Sour cherry
- Cantillion Rose de Gambrinus - 90% raspberry and 10% cherry, sour and excellent
- De Cam Geuze - Newest Gueuze brewer, see what you think
- De Ranke Kriek - Unusual cherry beer
- De Troch Fond Geuze - Real Gueuze from De Troch, excellent
- Drie Fontainen Geuze - Classic Gueuze
- Girardin Black Label Geuze - Excellent starter Gueuze, tending toward the citric
- Girardin Framboise - Sourish raspberry
- Hansens Geuze - Return of this classic Gueuze. Try it!
- Hansens Kriek - As for the Hansens Gueuze
- Mort Subite Geuze - Classic, not quite as sharp Gueuze
- Oud Beersel Geuze - Gueuze tending toward the citric
Ales and other Belgian Beers
- Bieken Honey Beer - Tasting of honey ale
- Braiserie De Geants Gouyasse - New beer to Belgium and the festival. See what you think!
- Braiserie De Geants Saison Voisoin - New saison beer from new brewery
- De Doller Oerbier - Unusual, slightly sour brown beer
- De Ranke XX Bitter - Hops, Hops, Hops!
- Duchess De Burgoine - West Flanders Red, sour and mature
- Ellezelloise Hercule - Belgian Stout, named after the detective. Yummy!
- Ellezelloise Quentine - Classic straw-coloured Belgian ale, slightly sweet
- Felix Kriek - Sourish cherry beer
- Felix Oud Bruin - Sour East Flanders brown
- Moinette - Aromatic ale, lovely
- Saison Dupont - A classic saison beer, with herbs
- Vichtenaar - West Flanders Red, sour, fruity and bitter
- Witkap Stimulo - Light tasting ale, with hop flavours, also lightly citric
Dutch Beers
- Christoffel Blond - Dutch pilsner, very flowery and hoppy
- Grottenbier - Interesting Dutch Ale
- Leeuw Valkenburg Wit - Classic wheat beer
- Maasland De Schele Os - One of the original Dutch micro ales, excellent
- Maasland Witte Wieven - Dutch wheat beer, quite different from Leeuw
- Paeleman Lam Gods - Easter beer, new to us!
- Schelde De Zeeupier - Classic ale, spiced with orange peel and herbs
- T`ij Columbus - Strong, dark ale
German Beers
- Andechs Dunkel Weisse - Cracking dark wheat beer
- Augustiener Helles - Classic German Helles
- Augustiner Maximator - Classic beer from this classic brewery
- Ayinger Altbairisch - Alt style beer from Bavaria. Interesting!
- Dom Kolsch - Classic light beer, one of the best
- Frankenheim Alt - Alt beer from Dusseldorf
- Fruh Kolsch - Classic light beer, very popular
- Goller Weisenbok - Malty dark wheat beer. Cross between bok and weisse. Nice!
- Hannen Alt - Alt Beer from Dusseldorf
- Jever Pils - Dry and hoppy
- Radeburger - Pilsner beer
- Schlenkerla Rauchbier - Smoked beer tasting of beefburgers, absolutely a classic
- Schneider Aventinus - The dark wheat beer
- Schneider Weisse - Classic German wheat beer
- St Gerogean Kellerbier - Stongly hopped version of Helles, also less carbonation
Northern French Beers
- Gavroche - Delicious Biere sur lie
- Grain d'Orge - Biere de Garde, light coloured ale
Czech Beers
- Lobkowicz - Czech pilsner beer, pale and dry
Beers on Draught
- Felix Kriek - Brown beer based cherry beer, nice!
- Jopen Hoppenbier - Extermly hoppy and refreshing beer from Holland
- Keesman Pils - German pilsner
- La Chouffe - Saisonish spiced ale from the Ardennes. World classic
- Leeuw Valkenburg Wit - Classic Dutch wheat beer
ALE No. 306: 29th Cambridge Beer Festival
Cambridge & District CAMRA
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