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Subject: Lambic Digest #980 (November 13, 1996)
Lambic Digest #980 Wed 13 November 1996
Forum on Lambic Beers (and other Belgian beer styles)
Mike Sharp, Digest Coordinator
Contents:
RE: Bincheoise Speciale Noel (Jim Busch)
Re: Lambic Digest ?974 (November 05, 1996) (Stephen.D'ARCY)
casks/old Cantillon (Algis R Korzonas)
Quebec Beers (Paul.J.Timmerman)
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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 09:50:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim Busch <busch at eosdev2.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: RE: Bincheoise Speciale Noel
Phil notes:
<Last night Jim Busch and I shared one of these, and it was really delightful.
<The body had improved substantially, and all the flavors held up well. Very
<drinkable.
True and for any of you that had tried my conference beer, Esprit de Boire
and thought it was heavy in the orange flavors, Bincheoise is way more
citrousy/orangey than my version. A real "on the edge beer" in terms of
flavorings, which help to hide the 8% ABV.
Jim
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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 15:50:18 +0100
From: Stephen.D'ARCY at DG1.cec.be
Subject: Re: Lambic Digest ?974 (November 05, 1996)
Re: Lambic Digest _974 Tue 05 November 1996
Tuesday 12 November 1996
> and there's even Steven D'Arcy, who actually lives in
> Bruxelles and knows the beer scene backwards and forwards.
Many thanks for your kind remarks
>
> Well, I have come up with the one remaining thing that I don't think anyone
> has done yet. I am very pleased to announce that I am engaged to marry the
> lovely Mlle. Veronique D'Hondt of Bruxelles, where I expect to be moving in
> mid-December.
If you can't beat 'em - join 'em ... congratulations! We look forward
to welcoming you to our soirees.
> Well, some of this is tongue in cheek, but it has been a tremendous
pleasure
> for me to see how the Belgian beer scene in the US has flourished, and I
> thank many of your for your support and friendship over the past two years.
> For my own part, I'll do what I can to make some more little Belgians, and
> we'll see what the future brings.
I've just returned from New York and Washington DC this morning - AMEN to
that ...
Beste wensen (you'd better start getting used to the Flemish words!)
Stephgen D'Arcy
67 rue des Atrebates
B-1040 Brussels Belgium
tel. (+32) 2.736.72.18
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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 96 10:42:38 CST
From: korzonas at lucent.com (Algis R Korzonas)
Subject: casks/old Cantillon
Mikael writes:
>Some time ago, I read the "Liddil lambic lesson". The author claims that
>wooden barrels could be ruined by mould unless they are kept properly
>filled.
I've just filled my 20-gal oak cask with a Rodenbach clone (I hope)
this weekend. I had it sitting in the garage filled with water, changing
the water every two weeks, for about 2 months while I found the time
to brew (and finished building the new brewing system). There was a
little mould on the wooden stopper and in a 1/2" ring around the bung
hole, but there was so little, I don't think it's anything to worry about.
Are you sure that Jim didn't say the wood would dry and there would be
*leakage* problems if you didn't keep it filled?
Mike writes:
>Since I'm not in any of the markets where this beer is available
>I can't comment on it in specific. I know at least a few folks
>on the digest can. So, what do you think???
I checked this weekend and they were all out of the old Cantillon at my
usual buying spot. Mainstreet keeps their lambics refrigerated however,
so it's probably not typical of the conditions in most stores. I do
recall that I had some of that 1992 bottling back in 1993 and the corks
were falling apart back then. I remember being pretty ticked-off that
such low quality corks were used for such high-quality beer.
Frankly, I'd much rather drink a bottle of flat, overheated, four-year-old
Cantillon Gueuze than a nice fresh beer from 95% of the other breweries out
there... but that's me.
Al.
Al Korzonas, Palos Hills, IL
korzonas at lucent.com
korz.pubs.ih.lucent.com
korz at xnet.com
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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 11:31:41 -0800
From: Paul.J.Timmerman at jpl.nasa.gov
Subject: Quebec Beers
I was lucky enough to hook up for a tasting where the
beers were all supplied by by a large western distributor
of exotica. We had some excellent belgain knock offs
from quebec, that arent being sold in the west. has
anyone else tried the Chimay or Hoegarten Knockoffs from
UniBrew (sic?) Pretty Yummy Stuff!
paul timmerman
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