Belgian Awful
Are all Belgian beers white beers? I picked up a couple wacky beers at this silly store across the street (because they had cool labels) thinking “Well, just because it’s brewed in Belgium doesn’t mean it’s a Belgian-STYLE white,” but I was wrong.
Let me explain my hate/hate relationship with white beers. For unknown reasons a couple years back I went through this wheat phase where I consumed only wheat beers — primarily Sunshine, Blue Moon and Hefeweizen bullshit. This lasted for several months before I realized that none of these beers taste particularly good. Blue Moon was what finally did me in — after weeks and weeks of drinking the stuff, I was drinking one and realized it tasted like there was dish soap in it. For all I know, there may have been in this instance, but I cannot drink a white beer now without thinking “dish soap” (I just learned on Wikipedia this is due to the presence of lactic acid). They now all taste exactly the same to me and it’s all bad.
As far as I can tell, this is the only way in which Belgians know how to produce beer, a process known as “how not to make beer.” Piraat and Gulden Draak are no exceptions, despite having really cool names and a 10.5% alcohol content. Whatever, here’s some pictures I took of the cool bottles/labels.
3 Responses to “Belgian Awful”
Oh thank christ, I thought you still liked wheat/white beers. It DOES taste like fucking dish soap, and it pisses me off to no end when douche bags order it at the bar, and then act like its the only beer to drink because they only like the highest quality gothic industrial beer.
Really? Because I drink beer that doesn’t taste like a dishwasher…it still tastes like shit, just not dish soap shit. Fruit doesn’t belong in beer, it belongs no where NEAR a beer. It should remain clear.
the fruit should remain clear?
No…cause then it would have to be your bull…
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