Our Regular Beers
Illegally Blonde
Strong Belgian Ale
7.4% ABV
Name:
A play on the film ‘Legally Blond’
Description:
Dare we say a proper Belgian Strong Blonde. It is sweet, without being too overpowering. One of our favourite brews.
Make that the Cat Weiss(bier)
German Weissbier
4.4% ABV
Name:
A ‘Dunglish’ (Dutch English) literal translation of the saying ‘Maak dat de kat wijs’. Literally translates as ‘Please go tell that to the cat…’, which means ‘You’re not fooling anyone’.
Description:
A light, fresh German Weizener. With soft banana notes.
Outdoor Season
French Saison
7.1% ABV
Name:
The first time we brewed this beer, we did it outdoors, in the garden! As it was a ‘Saison’, Outdoor Season was born!
Description:
By far our most versatile beer. Summer sunshine in the garden? Outdoor Season! Dark, Autumn evening? Outdoor Season! Grey Sunday need cheering up? Outdoor Season! It’s both warming and fresh, and the colour is lovely amber.
Naughty
Chocolate Milk Stout
6.6% ABV
Name:
Stout, when used as such in Dutch, would translate as ‘Naughty’
Description:
Our first ever attempt at a darker beer. It’s silky smooth, and the head is proper dark and foamy. It’s really dark in colour, pitch black almost, and a bit syrup-ey.
Dry-Hopped January
Citra Smash IPA
8.1% ABV
Name:
A dry-hopped ale, brewed for the first time in January
Description:
Our best attempt at a hop bomb. While still room for improvement, it is a lovely aromatic brew. One that really gets better after a few months on the bottle.
One-Off Beers
sunlit uplands
Sweet Orange Session IPA
3.5% ABV
Name:
We got our hands on a ‘Brexit Yeast’… the rest of the name we hope won’t need explaining.
Description:
Just like Brexit itself, this beer was a bit of a let-down. Although we could have guessed that, of course. It got better over time, but it wasn’t as fresh as we had hoped. The orange peels also didn’t do much.
Note: The recipe says London Ale III from Wylabs, but it was actually this Brexit yeast from WHC Labs, but it wasn’t £30….
Have a little rest
session-ish IPA
5.2% ABV
Name:
A brew made from all sorts of leftover grains and hops. Leftover in Dutch is ‘Restje’, a diminutive. So… in Dunglish that made ‘Have a little rest’
Description:
monk-ey Business
Belgian Abbey-Style Beer
6.5% ABV
Name:
Monks work in an abbey making beer…
Description:
A bit similar to our Belgian Blonde, but a lot less sweet and darker in colour.
Plan bee
honey tripel
9.5% ABV
Name:
If everything else fails, have a 9.5% beer. Made with a lot of honey.
Description:
Fat pants & LeftOvers
belgian strong ale
8.5% ABV
Name:
A left-over beer. Googling ‘leftovers’ we came to this GIF from Friends, and the name was born.
Description:
Belgian STRONG ale. This was a very strong tasting beer. You could just smell and taste it was strong. It was a bit yeast-ey in taste as well because we made a mistake with our measurement and thought it was under-fermented. So we wanted to give it a bit of a boost. In the end, at 8.5% it wasn’t really needed.
UnCommon
California Common-style
4.2% ABV
Name:
This was supposed to be a California Common, but it didn’t turn out as we expected, so… it was rather Uncommon…
Description:
improvised pale ale
American-ish pale ale
6.6% ABV
Name:
We ended up not having all the ingredients on brew day, so, we improvised a bit…
Description:
Blonde v1.0
Brew Kit Beer - Belgian Blond Ale
5.5% ABV
Name:
Before we got into the whole pun-thing
Description:
Our first ever beer.
We got a 5 gallon kit as a present. It was quite the adventure to get this brew underway, as we didn’t have any of the kit yet.
But, in the end, this Blonde turned out rather fine. It, literally, tasted of more. A lot more than the 5 gallon that we had. So, we started to look for a proper brew kit where we could brew our own recipes and experience a lot less stress while doing that!