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 74: March 15, 2015
Diary entry:
Slept in this morning at Hotel Miravaux in Brussels. Good to know it’s a comfortable enough hotel to make that possible. And the shower had great water pressure too! Decent breakfast spread, and good coffee. I can look forward to my few nights here in August for #EBBC15.
But then, at breakfast, I see the notes from people that they’ll be attending the beer festival today in Udenhout, which is around 10KM from my home in Boxtel. For some reason, I thought Udenhout was the same as Uden, which is slightly further away. No real excuse for me to miss this festival…so guess it’s time to get in the car and drive back to Boxtel to drop off my dirty clothes (and the beers I picked up yesterday) and head off to the festival!
Turned out to be a fun afternoon. I got there around 1 (it started at noon) and it wasn’t too crowded yet. But I soon found myself squeezed out of the table I was standing at, and moved to one of the sit-down tables, where it turns out two of my untappd friends I had never met before were sitting!
A few hours and a few beers later, we decided to splurge (which meant a whole €5!) on a bottled beer from one of the breweries vs. just sticking to the taps. Which is why I wound up with 11 new beers on the day instead of just 10.
The Beer:
Name: Stout Met Hout
Style: Russian Imperial Stout
Producer: Ramses Bier
Alcohol content: 8.5%
Bottle size: 0.75l
Purchased from: Ramses Bier at Bierbelevenis Udenhout
Difficult Beer for Complicated People. Quite a nice beer. Hoppy yet dark. Very interesting.
Commercial Description:
UK Admiral
This English hops adds to the exclusive character of this beer. It is pleasantly fresh and fruity with a hint of fresh grass and a hint of citrus
Dry Hop
For re-bottling, hops, wood, coffee, vanilla, juniper and myrtle are added.
Imperial Stout met Hout
Stout met Hout is strong, tough yet elegant beer. Deanston Scotch whiskey barrels gives the pure wood flavor; myrtle and juniper support the hops. Vanilla and coffee complement the malt flavors. Due to the bitterness, the special ingredients and the ABV, this beer can mature gracefully.
