30 Evan Street,

Stonehaven,

Aberdeenshire,

AB39 2ET

 

Tel : 01569 760060

Opening Hrs

Beer Tasting Notes

A small introduction to our massive beer range - remember to email your own tasting notes for a 10% discount.

 

 

Frank Boon - Frank Boon is relatively new to Lambics having started blending in 1975, when he took over the defunct De Vits brewery. He has brought new life to the craft, developing a reputation as a daring traditionalist, his lambics having great complexity.

 

Boon Gueuze 6.5% abv Lambic Beer 375ml
A clean tasting slightly sweet unfiltered gueuze, with a soft floweriness of rhubarb like aroma.

 

Liefmans Kriek 6.5% abv Fruit Beer 375ml
Once a year the brewery adds cherries to some of its brown ale and allows further fermentation. The finished product is deliciously smooth dark and distinctive with a sweet/sour flavour. A lovely brewery making truly great beers that take years to mature before being let out of the brewery.

 

Liefmans Frambozen 4.5% abv Fruit Beer
A remarkable speciality beer made with pressed raspberries added to six month old brown ale. After 8 months of maturation the beer is filtered and becomes frambozen. A beer of real depth of flavour and a truly special sweet/sour taste. Even after bottling it is kept in cellars before it is released. A marvellous fruity experience.

 

Lindemans - An independent lambic brewer in the hands of the eighth generation of the family to make lambic beers. Originally a farm, the brewery has recently doubled its capacity to cope with export demand.

 

La Choufee 8.0% abv Speciality Beer 750ml.
From the small village Achouffe in the Ardennes this is a micro brewery success story. So what is a chouffe? A red hatted, long- bearded gnome that's a part of local folklore. The beer is just excellent! Spiced with coriander it's immensely drinkable and full of character. Only available in dated champagne bottles.

 

McChouffe 8.5% abv Speciality Beer 750ml.
Inspired by a Scottish friend of the brewers this is a full, rich, warming brew with loads of character. The bearded gnome, which is the brewery logo is kilted in deference to that.

 

De Koninck 5.0% abv Belgian Ale 330ml
An outstanding copper coloured ale produced in the city of Antwerp. A fruity distinctive ale similar to alt bier and the diamond city's only brewery. Sparkling with taste and velvety smooth - ask for a bolleke of it!

 

Flemish Red Ale  

 

Rodenbach - probably no other brewery specialises so much in such an unusual product. A national treasure! The definitive example of Flanders red beer. Aged for two years in huge brandy casks there are 300 of these vessels - all uncoated oak - each containing up to 60,000 litres. This is unique in the world and helps give the sour, tart red colour and very unusual colour.

 

Rodenbach Grand Cru 6.0% abv Flemish Red Ale 330ml
The fully matured beer with a powerful bouquet and taste. Highly distinctive! 

 

Abbey Ales

 

St. Bernardus Abt 12.0% abv Abbey Beer 330ml
Revered brew - immensely full bodied rich and creamy.

 

Erdinger Weissbier

Established in 1886, Erdinger Weissbier is synonymous for Bavarian wheat beer. Located in the heart of Bavaria, in the town of Erding, the beer is traditionally matured to create a crisp, fresh and sparkling character.