This post is a part of the 2015 New Beer Every Day Beer Diary Challenge, #ottbeerdiary. Over the course of 2015, I will be trying a new beer every day. Please read the background in the link above, and enjoy reading about the most recently tasted beers below. If you’d like to join the challenge as well, let me know in the comments below, and be sure to check out Grown-up Travel Guide and his #grownupbeerdiary, where Andy Higgs came up with the diary format in use below. You can catch up on all of our posts as part of the challenge under the tag ottbeerdiary.
Day 104: April 14, 2015
Diary entry:
Today was an all-day offsite for the annual budgeting process.
We had the event in Riethoven at Restaurant Vandeijck, a very nice restaurant. Both lunch and dinner were included in the event. Lunch was a more traditional selection of meat and cheese sandwiches, but with very nice meats and cheeses, not the normal every-day selections from the office canteen. Dinner was a three-course meal, preceded by a selection of tasty amuse bouche served with our drinks, all of which were extremely well done! This is a restaurant I’ll try to return to for a more official review in the future.
The Beer:
Name: Gentse Stout
Style: Russian Imperial Stout
Producer: Brouwerij De Graal
Alcohol content: 11.0%
Bottle size: 0.33l
Purchased from: De Hopduvel in Ghent, Belgium
Gentse Stout, brewed by Brouwerij de Graal for De Hopduvel in Ghent. Dark bitter flavors with a lot of coffee notes overtaking the 11% ABV. Decent flavors. Brewed with Ethiopian coffee.
Commercial Description:
Our first beer was named ‘Klets’ (Flemish for Talk). For us a homonym with a multitude of meanings that you can happily discover.
We chose to brew an amber-colored, complex high fermentation beer. It gets its unique taste by the use of four types of hops from Poperinge. It has a pleasant bitterness and flavor is usually described as spicy, spicy, slightly peppery and resounding until creamy. With its eight degrees alcohol arose as a character beer. Klets on 12/26/2013 was recognized as 100% West Flemish farm and regional product.
