Achel Trappist EXTRA...$15.99 / 750ml
This is one of their hardest to get....
"Huge, copper-colored, bottle-conditioned ale, still hot off the presses, Achel Trappist Extra is the latest from the tiny brewery at the St. Benedictus Abbey at Achel, in the Northeast of Belgium. At this year's World Beer Championships in Chicago, the Extra was easily the best of the many Trappist beers tasted, scoring 97 points and an "Exceptional" rating. You will find this a very satisfying beer, with just a little malt sweetness, dried fruit flavors, warm sherry notes, and a brisk balancing backdrop of fresh hop bitterness.
Achel is by far the smallest of Belgium's six Trappist monasteries, and one of only two in which the monks themselves still take a hand in the daily operation of the brewery. We think you'll agree that the care and time that a little hands-on brewery devotes to its beers makes all the difference." -- importer
One of the most sought after Mikkeler beers is in stock now!
Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast...$11.99 / pint
"Ask any beer geek . . . . a hearty, complex stout is the tastiest way to begin the day. This unique mix of an oat and coffee stout creates an intense, full-bodied beer that is surprisingly balanced and full of new taste adventures with every sip." -- importer
Rated 100 percentile on ratebeer.com
Kerkom Bink Tripel...$13.99 / 750ml
Here at last is Bink Tripel.
"Look, it’s a big bottle! Not so easy to misplace. And people are saying already that Bink is the best Tripel of Belgium – earthy, deep, complex, but light in color and on the palate, as befits the style, and it packs a very healthy wallop of whole fresh hop aroma. The Kerkom brewery is a shrine to the noble hop, and the brewer, Marc Limet, is the guardian of the eternal flame at a time when most Belgian breweries have forgotten that hops ever existed. So it is no surprise that this beer is purported to be the hoppiest of Tripels. Actually, Bink Tripel isn’t quite hoppy enough for us – not yet. But since things only get hoppier and hoppier at Kerkom as time goes by, we are content to drink, and wait. As Marc says, “ it's getting better all the time . . .” -- importer
Drie Fonteinen Brewery -- Belgium
"Drie Fonteinen is the only remaining traditional geuze blender in Belgium, using only 100% spontaneously fermented lambik beer, aged in oak casks, with no artificial sweeteners or other additives." -- importer
3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek...11.99 / 375ml
"Perhaps the best sour cherry beer in the world. Positively loaded with real cherries, which are added whole into slowly fermenting oak casks." -- importer
plus more of these...
Nogne Imperial Stout
Nogne IPA
Haandbryggeriet Dark Force Extreme Imperial Wheat
(new batch -- #116)
Haandbryggeriet Norwegian Wood
2 comments:
Wow, I am very excited to see the Achel Extra because it is one of my favorites. I have heard a lot of great things about the Beer Geek.
Any word on the Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale? I hear its already making appearances in Illinois.
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