Not all beer pairs well with cheese, but the lighter Belgian styles top wine as a cheese pairing, in my book. Try an Orval, for example with a stinky cheese, and it lifts both to new heights. Stinky cheese, by contrast is very...

Drinking Orval in Brussels was a revelation- a totally different beer than what you find on the shelves here after some aging. Not something I’d drink every day, but Sapporo Black was a good brew that isn’t around...

of the aforementioned wild yeasts) and sour cherries added. Simply FABULOUS. One of my favorite beers, ever. At the brewpub, they’re likely to have at least 5-8 of the Belgian "tion" beers, like Deification (an Orval clone-...

I just saw Aprihop at Beer Garden in Jamaica (Queens). Did not buy. I am embarking on tasting all the Unibroue offerings they have. But first had some Orval. Wow.

in the 70’s (with the corklined cap- it wasn’t hard to find, but freshness was a concern) and had tried some Belgian beers (certainly Orval, but can’t recall what others) but, until I read Jackson’s book,...

are hardly curiosities in the U.S. market! And then a single, awkwardly selected Belgian. A 25oz bottle of Chimay, IIRC, costing 29 dollars! I would have expected at least one of the ~10oz standards from Chimay, Orval, Duvel,...