Beer tasting last night

[ironphoenix]

My orders:
Toernichoise Fumée--A very fine light (!) smoked beer, lots of flavour.
Malheur 10--A definitive abbey ale, complex and well-balanced.
Balthazar--A very fun beer, lots of interesting spices and tastes... immensely carbonated, it just about filled 2 glasses with foam when it was opened.
Blanche de Laval--An excellent wheat beer, better (imnsho) than either Blanche de Chambly or Hoegaarden; I wish I'd started with it, since it was following some stronger, heavier beers.

blinkus2000's orders:
Rogue XS Imperial Stout
Rogue Chipolte Ale--Nice on the chipotle, with a pleasant heat that comes in slowly; too bad the beer itself isn't anything special.
La Vache Folle Milk Stout
Route des Indes--A fine IPA, not to be confused with Keith's "IPA", which is just an ordinary lager with a marketing gimmick.
Delirium Nocturnum--Hillarious pink elephants on the bottle, and even little ones on the glass... nice beer, too, although I don't remember it as well.
La Bête Noire

scubajim and C____ were mostly drinking lambics, which are fascinating but mostly not my thing...

There was an excellent Flemish sour ale called Duchesse de Bourgogne that I could only describe as beer for red wine lovers; it is apparently called "The Burgundy of Belgium."

ETA: This post has a full list, I think.

By the way, for those not in the know, this all happened at Bistro l'Autre Œil. Now that's a beer menu!

Comments

[mikepictor.livejournal.com]

It may have good beers, but the menu is comparatively miniscule.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Different intent, different experience... and their food menu is appealing too.

[xiphia.livejournal.com]

I'd be up for checking it out sometime.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Excellent... and soul_diaspora wants to try out this famous Wellington Gastro-Pub you've talked up so much, too!

[xiphia.livejournal.com]

Most excellent! Perhaps once I'm over this cold? :)

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me!

[mikepictor.livejournal.com]

Oh, not saying it wouldn't be a pleasant outing, I'd be happy to check them out, but it's not really a comparison to the experience we were hunting this past weekend.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

I think jagash was just figuring that if I (and others) liked interesting beers, this would be a pleasant option for an outing sometime; I don't think he meant that we should forget about this Bistro l'Autre Œil crap and go there instead! You came across as a bit dismissive, is all; I assume it wasn't your actual intent.

[jagash.livejournal.com]

The triple smoked fish is delightful, a must try.