Dammit!
Then the one at the Steelgaarden was
fucked up.

Too sour?

I have some faint memories of a great party in Rue André Bréart.


Ha! Nope, five minutes in another direction - Rue du Lycee 29, just at the Horta metro station.

Framboise is usually not that sour -- not even the artisanal ones.

Cantillon, on the other hand,... if you're not used to it. "krieken" (Prunus cerasus) are *not* cherries (Prunus avium), and are extremely sour unless you leave it on the tree until the birds go at them, by which time they're very hard to collect and process.

Even I prefer kriek that's a bit more to the lambic side (bitter and throat-burning) than really sour.

Note that there are palatable brands for even the people who like their absinthes sugared and that are easy to find - like e.g. Boon, Liefmans (technically not a real kriek, though), Lindemans, Wieze, Mort Subite, etc.

Just in case someone wanders around EuroFuckyLand: stay away from Belle-Vue, which is industrial Interbrew fare.

Liefman's is technically an Oud Bruin. I love Oud Bruins.

BTW - I can get everyone of those brands you mentioned, here in the US.

I wasn't talking about plain "Liefmans", they do also have a "Kriek Liefmans", a cherry flavoured "oude bruine" as well. Not a lambic-based "kriek", but it's not too bad either, if a bit sweet for my palate.

[Obligatory spelling flame: Liefmans, from the archaic Dutch for "sweet man", "lover", inflected to yield a possessive, which requires no apostrophe.]

Didn't know you could get Boon that easily in the US. On another note, what about products from smaller brewers like La Chouffe?

Makes me wonder how Anheuser-Bush manages to sell all their crap in the US (but then, I can't understand why people drink Stella Artois here either). Or is all that beer prohibitively expensive in the US?

I can get La Chouffe locally. Steenbergen, Delerium series, Doubble Enghien Blond ale, Le Trappe, Rochfort, Rodenbach Grand Cru and Alaxander(I havn't bought any since Palm took over) and quite a few others. Yes, my spelling sucks. But I'm doing this from memory and don't have the bottles at work to get the correct spelling.

I can get both Boon Lambic and Boone's Farm Wine at my local supermarket. They sell Boon and Lindeman's.

Are you sure you can get Rodenbach, Gimpy? They stopped exporting to the US, recently. If you can still get some, PM me - pretty please.

750 ml of Lindemanns Framboise (or Kreik) is about $11.

$9 in the city, Skeets - and I can buy it at Safeway.

Whatever happened to Annie Greensprings?

DG

Got knocked up and played out.

happens to the best of us.

Must be why it hasn't happened to you.

nor you.

Skeeter is my love child.

You mean grand-child.

Um, no.
That would be his kid.
Wanna chart?

is that like snogging?