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Witkap Singel Abbey Ale
Saison Dupont, Foret
Moinette, Biere de Miel
Castelain, St. Amand
Boon Lambics
Scaldis


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Our collection of imports numbers more than 25 beers from Belgium and French Flanders.  A couple of years back, it dawned on us that the average store or restaurant was hard-pressed to stock all of them all of the time.  So, we came up with a quarterly charts profiling excellent beer choices for each season.  We are presenting this information (albeit in a different format) on the web for you to use as you stock your beer cellar, your store shelves or build your seasonal menu.
Boon (Framboise and Gueuze) | Saison Dupont


Boon (Framboise and Gueuze)  

Style: Lambic Wild Yeast Ale

Description: Brewed in Lembeek, town that gave Lambic its name, by Frank Boon, premiere revivalist brewer in Belgium. 100% spontaneously fremented by wild yeast, barrel aged for 2 years. Renowned for delicacy, balance, authentic Lambic attack & tartness.Unparalleled beers for cooking because of complexity and lack of hop bitterness.

Boon Framboise: Framboise is raspberry Lambic (min. 200 grams per liter of real fruit, no juice or flavorings used). Fruity, dry & nutty aperitif or dessert beer.

Boon Gueuze:
Dusky gold, pungently aromatic, deliciously dry & sherry-like. Bracing aperitif. Great with salads, fish. What Belgians drank in Breughel's day.

Refreshing summer aperitifs. Serve with fruits like peaches, raspberries, cherries and plums.

Comments and Selling Points: 

            "**** World Classic."-- Michael Jackson The Pocket Guide to Beer.


I find Boon Geuze's funky nuances addictive." New York Magazine.

           "The champagne of the beer world...it is as if (Boon) stuffed a piece of the Belgian countryside into a bottle and shipped it overseas."

-- Bill Metzger Barleycorn Magazine

Microbrewery of the Year--World Beer Championships

Saison Dupont

Style: Belgian Farmhouse Ale.

Description: Saison Dupont is brewed at one of Europe's last famhouse breweries. Beautifully balanced, herbal, hoppy, with peppery fruitiness, rocky head. Bottle-conditioned, cork-finished. Suitable for cellaring. Great with barbecue, gumbo, salads, fish. This is one of Belgium's most remarkable and beautiful artisanal breweries. A treasure in Hainaut.

Comments and Selling Points: "Classic producer of the style"--Michael Jackson.

  "The ale is cloudy, fizzy, citric, with a balanced hop attack; It's a symphony in a light package."--New York Magazine

Gold Medal--World Beer Championships



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