FINALLY! A Battleground Brewers Guild meeting that actually jives with my work schedule! A good time to catch up in-person with some online friends. And the meeting was indeed a good one, a favorite topic of mine:BELGIAN BEERS.
Delicious craft offerings on the cutting edge of brewing experimentation and design. Beers that seemingly fit no mold, yet fall into recognized categories all their own. Enigmatic. Complex. Delicious.
Many many bottles passed around! Commercial varieties of Orval, Chimay White, Duvel, Ommegang Three Philosophers. Homebrew samples of dubbels, quads, oud bruin. A 5-gallon keg of Natty Greene's Belgian Blonde Ale. A tasty Belgian-esque dinner to be paired with Belgian beer. Yum.
Sour. Funky. Bready. Spicy. A meeting that runs the gamut of Belgian beer.
And a convenient 5-minute drive home on backstreets. You know, just in case things got out of hand. ;-)
A great way to spend a smidge under 3 hours. Brought back many of the good memories I still manage to keep and hold dear, such as this shot of Brugge in Belgium:
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