I have had the privlege of enjoying this beer in the company of the Viscount of Lower Saxony and his Second cousins, the last surviving sons of the Barony of the Transylvanian Saxons. They confided in me that this is the quaff of choice during the decannual mule deer hunt at their exclusive royal hunting reserve in the mountains of lower Silesia.

i like your blog! always good to see good, enthusiastic work on a subject close to my heart (thanks to belgium!)… i’ll be coming through more often from now just to “whet my appetite” and slake my thirst at least virtually. i don’t often get out to a decent pub from where i live–out in the boonies–but there ARE some nice belgian beer cafes in tokyo and yokohama, and some good microbrew pubs, as well. if u don’t know them, popeye in tokyo is the most famous (and i haven’t been yet!), and there’s a cool place called thrashzone in yokohama that i would recommend. they go heavy on u.s. offerings from stone and the like (which a friend of mine imports). give it a google, man!

a nice thing about duchesse du bourgogne: in japan, where i live, it is possible to get ur paws on it now and again–in import stores as well as at belgian beer cafes in major metro areas such as tokyo.

cheers!

One of the most interesting, complex, and deep beers I can remember trying. It’s delicious at the same time. Like reading a Malcolm Gladwell essay that is really interesting, you learn a ton that you hadn’t known before, but also are enjoying yourself the whole time.

It reminds me of a wine with its complexity of flavor. The transition on the palate is pretty remarkable and worth trying the beer at least once, just for that.
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