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New Belgium Brewing’s Sour Symposium
I was fortunate enough to be able to attend New Belgium Brewing‘s Sour Symposium during PDX Beer Week. This event featured several great beer dinners, barrel aging seminars, and the [...]
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The Foeders of Roeselare: A Visit with the Wooden Behemoths of Rodenbach
My last official brewery trip of my Belgium vacation was to Brouwerij Rodenbach in the lovely town of Roeselare which is situated in the province of West-Vlaanderen. Since my first taste [...]
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Roeselare: A Short Walking Tour
No trip to a brewery is complete without a visit to the city it calls home. After my visit to Rodenbach (You can read about my tour of Rodenbach at: [...]
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Samuel Adams Stony Brook Red
Here at ithinkaboutbeer.com, I’m a particularly big fan of “sour” beers. So I thought I’d start the year with a series of reviews on sour beers from the United States [...]
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Russian River Brewing Consecration (Batch 008)
Russian River Brewing is probably one of the hottest names in the American craft brewing scene. Vinnie Cilurzo has reached the status of a cult personality mainly because of his [...]
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Rodenbach Vintage 2010
Rodenbach Vintage 2010 just hit the west coast of the United States this month. If you’re not familiar with this expression of the Rodenbach line, it’s a unblended batch of [...]
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Deschutes Brewery The Dissident 2012
Deschutes Brewery releases The Dissident approximately every other year, or as they say: “When the beer tells us it’s ready.” This is the only “sour” beer that Deschutes brews, which is [...]
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Petrus Oud Bruin
The Petrus line of beers was created by the Bavik Brewery in the mid-1980′s to celebrate their 100 year anniversary in 1984. To this day, Bavik is a family owned [...]
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Green Flash Flanders Drive
Green Flash Brewing’s Flanders Drive is a Flemish-style sour Red Ale that was released for the brewery’s 10th anniversary in 2012. Chuck Silva, brewmaster, toyed with the idea of creating [...]
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Deschutes Brewery Green Monster
Deschutes Brewery‘s Green Monster is a new sour release from the brewery who’s most famous sour, The Dissident, has long been a highly sought after item amongst fans of wild […]
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The Foeders of Roeselare: A Visit with the Wooden Behemoths of Rodenbach
The Foeders of Roeselare: A Visit with the Wooden Behemoths of Rodenbach. Here’s one from the I think about beer archives! This is a recap of my trip to Rodenbach […]
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Wonderful Wanderings: Belgian Beer Collaboration – Rodenbach
In the 3rd piece in my series on Belgian Beer for the Wonderful Wanderings travel site, I briefly discuss the history of Rodenbach and its beers along with a couple […]
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Rodenbach Vintage 2011
The 2011 version of the Rodenbach Vintage just landed on the west coast, just in time for a last minute Christmas gift option for the beer lover in your life! […]
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Rodenbach Caractère Rouge
Rodenbach Caractère Rouge is a newer project from the venerable old Flemish Red producer. Created in collaboration with Antwerp Chef Viki Geunes of ‘t Zilte, the restaurant at the top […]
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Liefmans Goudenband
Liefmans Goudenband is a classic Flemish Brown or Oud Bruin representing the special version of the brewery’s everyday Oud Bruin. Liefmans can trace its history as a brewery back as […]
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De Struise Brouwers Ypres 2009
Ypres is another experimental beer marked with De Struise Brouwers characteristic bold house style. Ypres is their interpretation of a Flemish Oud Bruin, or sour brown ale. Like other beers of this […]
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De Ranke Cuvée De Ranke
Brouwerij De Ranke continues to put out creative and interesting beers that represent the best mix of Belgian tradition and craft beer innovation. Cuvée De Ranke fits that bill. It uses […]
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Omer Vander Ghinste Cuvée des Jacobins
Recently, the folks at Bockor changed the name of the brewery to Omer Vander Ghinste, a name harkening back to the founding of the brewery. While the brewery changed names, […]
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Rodenbach Vintage 2012
Brouwerij Rodenbach‘s release of their Vintage beer is always one of the releases I anticipate most. The 2012 version was released this year in the United States and will be […]
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Van Honsebrouck Bacchus
The Van Honsebrouck family has been brewing in West Flanders since 1811 and in Inglemunster, their current home, since 1900. Today, the brewery is run by the 5th generation of […]
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