- Belgian Trappists like Rochefort, St. Bernadus, Achel, Orval and other great beers like gulden drak, ayinger, delirum as well as a top tier selection of British ale. In 5 years in the UK I haven’t found another offie that...

Serving it with a lemon sauce might be grand. I have used Orval beer in this recipe and it comes out great.

Coniston’s Blue Bird Bitter Weihenstephan Hefe Weissbier And the bottle list: Orval Westmalle Trappist Tripel Trappistes Rochefort 10 Maredsous 8 Ommegang Abbey Ale Dogfish Head Raison d’Etre Gouden Carolus Tripel...

Orval (a Belgian beer) and Camembert cheese remains on the greatest food/beverage combinations I have ever tried in my life. I’m a fan of fresh goat cheese with crisp sauvignon blancs from Sancerre or New Zealand. There are...

The frites at Cafe de Bruxelles on Greenwich Ave are pretty stellar. A bowl of Moules Mariniere, a big serving of their fries, and a Chimay or an Orval, and I’m a happy, happy man. Cafe de Bruxelles 118 Greenwich Ave (at 13th...

of malt flavor Orval (triple, 6,9%) 8- A trappist classic – somewhat hoppy and a little funky from the wild yeast. That bottled list has dwindled lately. They used to have a bunch more including De Dolle Arabier which is my...

Orval might be a bit intense for someone who says they don’t like beer...but if someone truly savors wine they should appreciiate the complexity of Orval. But even many beer lovers have a hard time with it! I just had...

I believe there are now six Trappist breweries in Belgium: Chimay, Westvleteren, Rochefort, Orval, Westmalle, and the newest one, Achel. There is also a fairly new Cistercian brewer: Abbaye du Val-Dieu. Chimay White is called a...

: Samuel Smiths – Nut Brown Ale, Oatmeal Stout, Taddy Porter Young’s – Special London Ale Fuller’s – ESB, London Porter, London Pride Chimay – Cinq Cents (White label) Hoegaarden Saison Dupont...

“Belgium Fries, beer, whatever” affectation, I shall cram an Orval chalice somewhere sensitive. See picture here: http://www.truebeer.com/Orval-Chalice_p_0-68.html You can find Cantillon sometimes at Galco old world...

this sandwich in. Good flavor and a good deal for $15. I had a bottle of Orval for $12. I think I’ll stick with the water next time. Definitely going to make reservations for dinner in the near future here, if I can’t...

"All I can remember is that it was a monk-brewed Belgian, which doesn’t narrow it down terribly" Actually, it does. The five trappist brewers (in 1995) were Westmalle, Rochefort, Westvleteren, Chimay, Orval, Schaapskooi, and...

wiehenstephaner, Aecht Shlenkerla, Orval, Leffe, Chimay, Staropromen, Ayinger, Franziskaner. Thats a minor step above Miller and Bud? What planet are you from. There beer list must have 30 plus beers in the same league as the...

Yes, Belgium is a better place to get Belgian beers, but there a bunch available in Paris at very good prices. There is an tiny beer store for strange French beers right near Reamur-Sebastipol metro stop. You can usually get...

Pale, Oud Beersel, Orval, Girardin, Hanssens, Cantillon, Boon, Lindemans. I’d definitely try all the Ballast Point offerings. They make surprisingly good sour beers. Deschutes is a good producer, I had no idea they did...