Discovering Belgian Beers with Bold Monk and Three Taverns Brewery

There's a lot to love about Belgian beers.

Once upon a time, many craft drinkers in America turned to Belgian beers for their quality and complexity.  Either for a break from the limited American beers or due to lack of availability in their area.  Golden ales, dubbels and tripels and quads, lambic and geuze, there was a bounty of flavor coming from Belgian breweries.

On the heels of his Belgians in the Garden beer festival John Roberts of Bold Monk joins us this week along with fellow brewer Brian Purcell of Three Taverns.  We five into the styles, traditions, trends, terroir, glassware, and ingredients of Belgian beer.

A few of the topics covered:

• Belgians in the Beer Garden Recap
• Belgians vs. Belgian-style
• St. Bernardus 12 vs. Westy 12
• Singels, Dubbels, Tripels, & Quads
• The Short History of the Quadrupel
• Long Lost Belgian Styles Still Lost
• What Makes a Pilsner Belgian?
• Three Taverns Steps Out - A Night On Ponce
• Saisons: The Beer of the People
•  All Beers Were Once Rauchbiers
• Growing Interest in Tripels & Quads
• Tekus and Belgian Beer Glassware
• Patersbier / Belgian Singels
•  Lambics, Geuzes, and Spontaneous Ales
• Flanders Red Ales and Oude Bruins

Belgian Beers of the Week

• Orval
• Three Taverns & Brick Store - Total B.S. (Brett Saison, 2017)
• Oude Geuze Boon
• Bold Monk - The Virtue of Patience (Flanders Red Ale)

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