And you know, it's a real -- when we released it three years ago, this was a really funky beer. Now, it's almost -- with some of these funky Belgian style experimental beers that are out there -- it's not even considered that funky. But it is real unique.It almost drinks as much like a wine like a beer.
And it controlled for the effects of gravity. A Belgian astronomer-- well, a Belgian priest an amateur astronomer, George Lemaitre, he came to him 10 years later.
So when we move on to the next beer, which is going to be the AleSmith IPA, think about some of those aromas that I just talked about. So Belgian beers will have a lot of very fruity ester yeast that could have stone fruits and plums and really great depths of a honey kind of thing.
use so as not to chafe, because oh god, no. in Belgian educational policy in the Congo, he didn't actually interview any black folks from the Congo.
light hits them that is what reduces, it is almost a, it's a chemical compound that mimics what a skunk smells like, truly. a Belgian beer made by monks in a monastery. It is really earthy, really dry, very complex, not super high in alcohol, 6.9 so I can drink several of them and um, the complexity is
Q Rob Tod: The white is actually the lowest alcohol beer we brew at five percent. The Belgian beers tend to be -- I mean, there are definitely some lower alcohol Belgian beers, and the white is about 80, 85 percent of our production. But a lot of the traditional Belgian style beers tend to be pretty high in alcohol.
It is absolutely making a difference. The Belgians have expressed thanks for and solidarity with German firefighters who came from across the border, but also firefighting planes that were sent from the Netherlands.
It's the traditional Belgian style wheat beer. It's unfiltered. The Belgians use a lot of unique ingredients in their white beers. This is traditionally spiced with coriander and orange peel.
He said, if you see the law of large numbers, you can infer that the underlying events must be independent. - Take this table of Belgian marriages from 1841 to 1845. Now you see that every year the average is about 29,000.
But the reality is, it's really a humbling sport or activity. It was actually a Belgian surgeon who was the first one to report this.
Like this saison from Allagash, which has been making great beer in Maine for 25 years now, and is one of the top brewers in the world. And they do Belgian -inspired beers, and this is a Belgian -inspired beer. And this is one of the best examples in the US that's being made today.
The best beers in the world are $6 or $8, or maybe $10. Maybe a rare Belgian bottle is $25 bucks. But when you do down on the street, when you pay $10 for a pint at Lord Hobo, you're getting a world-class offering.
The saxophone was invented by Adolphe Sax around 1840. He was a Belgian who moved to Paris, and his intent was to make an instrument for the orchestra. Not for the jazz band, not for the marching bands, not for the military bands, but for the orchestra.
kind of the French region. French fries are Belgian but close enough-- but what about ketchup? So I want everyone to read the words below the word Heinz on this bottle.
And Shipman, the ultimate salesman said, exactly Michael. It's a Belgian style beer. So they changed all the copy on their label to say it's a Belgian style beer and all the marketing copy.
And Shipman, the ultimate salesman, is like, no Joe. This is our Belgian style ale. And Owades looks at him and says no, it's not.
And Shipman said, exactly, Michael! It's a Belgian style beer. And he set about-- he changed all the copy on the label to say it's a Belgian style beer, and they changed all their marketing materials.
here in Seattle. And Shipman said, no, Joe. It's our Belgian style ale. And Owades looked at him and said, no, it's not.
that I could use? Outside of drinking more Belgian beer. I don't know if that necessarily-- Isn't helpful.
use so as not to chafe, because oh god, no. It was about Belgian educational policy in the Congo.
which is our Belgian IPA.
flavor and he is trying to figure out what it is, is it in the hops or the yeast. Yep, in the doubles and the triples which are bigger beers, so we are going to be trying later, those are Belgian styles, they typically use a Belgian candy sugar in addition to the malts to pump up that malt level to get a higher alcohol content. And so you are also going to get what's call residual sugar in the beer. So that sweetness, kinda like a port quality, almost like a brandyish kind of quality, you get some heat in the exhaust. Most of the
Like I said, it's the one we sell the most of. It's the traditional Belgian style wheat beer. It's unfiltered. The Belgians use a lot of unique ingredients in their white beers.
influence from wine culture. I think the biggest part of the influence is in the yeast strains. So. We in some ways -- if you talk to different brewers of Belgian style beers, they'll tell you different things. Everyone has their own kind of opinions on them.
beer by quite a bit. So the basic run down of the white. I mentioned traditional Belgian style wheat beer -- five percent unfiltered and spiced. The double and triple are the Trappist style beers we brew, which I described those.
this uh Belgian Flemish uh doctor in the 16th century who was a brilliant young
It was social classes until the Belgian , of course, they had to change the whole system.
Does this look like a Belgian waffle?
He was the top scorer in the Belgian league the first year he played in the Belgian league.
And maybe if we're lucky the Belgian phone company won't make the cut.
one of our big selling our brands. And that eventually led to the Belgian style beers that we make and the wheat beers, and the incredible range that we now produce in Brooklyn.
Does this look like a Belgian waffle?
I actually spoke to a Belgian sex therapist.
I have a French mother and a Belgian father and I grew up in six different countries, so I don't really know where my accent's from.
Greg: So with black IPAs and Belgian IPAs and all these new hybrid styles being created.
Christina: Yes, the next beer is the Saison Dupont... Hallie: mmmmmmmm Christina: which is another Belgian . This isn't a true Belgian . You can have, if a beer is a Belgian in style but not from Belgium, you have to call it a Belgian style. Hallie: Yeah. Christina: Please do not aim....it at your eye.
half a million barrels -- or in that range. And Anheuser Busch about a hundred million barrels a year. So we were extremely small. We started just doing exclusively Belgian style beer. Our first beer was the Allagash White, which is what I'm drinking now.
The Belgian beers tend to be -- I mean, there are definitely some lower alcohol Belgian beers, and the white is about 80, 85 percent of our production. But a lot of the traditional Belgian style beers tend to be pretty high in alcohol. And in a lot of ways, they drink almost like kind of a hybrid between beer and wine.
The Odyssey is an interesting one. We brewed that. Q Rob Tod: What the Belgian beers. One of the things that's always intrigued me. When I was at -- I brewed at Otter Creek;
The Odyssey is an interesting one. We brewed that. And whenever anyone brought these Belgian style beers, and I was like, "Wow, what is going on with this?" I mean, they were just all over the map.
Lmetra, who is a Belgian priest, as it turns out, who also knew Einstein's general relativity, said, "Well, look,
where you are, what you're seeing and hearing there. We're just a few minutes drive from the Belgian border here, and you can see behind me there is we've had plenty of volunteers coming in to bring water to firefighters, and then you'll see over there that is a firefighting mission.
So one of the first figures we look at is a Belgian statistician whose most famous concept is better known than his name.
More of the yeast than anything else. It's sort of a saison yeast in the Belgian tradition. But also the grain bill helps a lot.
And the story goes that-- the history goes that the Belgian colonial powers helped construct these identities-- Hutu, the majority, Tutsi
So these divisions were not particularly salient or meaningful until the Belgian colonizers came to power.
And it struck me that compared to other Belgian artists, you, even if you were struggling in the first few albums, you always were at the same time building out
Although I would say that in addition to Belgian waffles, which we were introduced to also at the Belgian Pavilion of the World's Fair,
You know. Belgian style.
And it was a period of incredible innovation. New Belgium Brewery in Colorado started up making only Belgian style beers. Allagash up in Maine started up, Stone in San Diego, Russian River in California,