| Tips and photos of Belgium tourist attractions and tourist traps, posted by real travelers and Belgium locals. Map |
 | Belgium Tourist Traps | Tips 1 - 10 of 106 |  |
 A "Calleke" by Luchonda
So why a Carlsberg or so local called a "Calleke" - we have more than 250 different beers to taste !!
Taste the belgian beers - but take your time and be a Bobby - no alco drinks when going to parties- festivities or private parties § Leave a Comment
|
Visiting Belgium?
Read reviews about Belgium Hotels
Real Reviews from Real VirtualTourist Members.
1. Belle Vue extra kriek (cherry) beer, right from the tap at the Belle Vue brewery museum in Brussels, near the Canal at 5 minutes walk from the metro station "Graaf van Vlaanderen/Compte de Flandre".
This is where the old buildings of the Brewery Belle Vue are situated. The beer brewing itself is done in the modern brewery but the lambic still ripes in barrels in this museum.
This beer is made of different lambics and with fresh cherries and riped in wooden barrels before it gets bottled.
It is basically prepared with hop and malt and natural yeast with spontaneously fermentation.
2. Lambic beers and their blends spontaneously ferment and age for two or three years in wooden casks.
This Belle-Vue Framboise is fabricated with another fruit lambic and is characterised by the sweet taste of raspberries. Unlikely with the cherry beer, there are no fromboises added but the juice of framboise.
It is rather sweet.
Bergensesteenweg 144
B-1600 SINT-PIETERS-LEEUW
Tel. : +32 02/371.43.00
Fax : +32 02/371.43.22
website of Interbrew
I thought the kriek we tried at the open doors on one of our Brussels VT meeting, was rather sweet, sweeter then I can remember having the same kriek from the bottle.
Ofcourse it was from the draft and fresh made!
Visiting the brewery was easy to do, but since Bellevue is part of Interbrew things really went to worse.
It is almost impossible as an individual to visit this museum.
I visited this museum already three times.
You might see more info of my visit and the meeting on my off the beaten path tips of Brussels
or
you can have a look at the fotki pictures! hit next each time. Leave a Comment
|
 | |  |
 Meuse Valley as seen from
Namur Fortress by Paul2001
Go to Dinant instead. It is smaller and prettier.(I hope to have a page on it soon) Leave a Comment
|
 1 more beer ?... by IngaA
Just famous great beer
The main tourist trap in Belgium.
I remember even a forum discussion about the best beer. So long, so many postings.
Belgium won this beer competition by the absolute majority of VTers who voted for Belgian beer (me among them).
This trap is fo beer-lovers. Be careful when drinking Belgian beer. I know, U'll be delighted and U'll want MORE and MORE :)))))
After that U risk to "on 4 legs" from the bar:)))))
You drank ALL the beer in the bar????
Alternative: GO to the another bar :))))) Leave a Comment
|
 Leffe beer by irisbe
It is a very commercial taste so I am sure there will be lots of other people left who will like it.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Leffe is brewed under the label of the Abbaye de Leffe but is actually an InBev beer.
This means you will have too look for the information at the InBev website.
Drink slow, enjoy the taste....
and never leave a glass empty nor full!
That is what my late uncle said when he died with a smile on his face and his glass in his hands! Leave a Comment
|
Visiting Belgium?
Read reviews about Belgium Hotels
Real Reviews from Real VirtualTourist Members.
 Jacobins, Kriek by irisbe
For people with a little bit more desire for the sweet beers I can suggest to try out a Jacobins.
It is far too sweet for my taste... but did I ever claimed I was ? :)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Brewed by Brewery Bockor
Kwabrugstraat 5
Bellegem-Kortrijk, 8510
Belgium
phone: +32 (0)56 23 51 71
visit the website of Bockor
Drink slow, enjoy the taste....
and never leave a glass empty nor full!
If you liked the framboise, you sure will like this cherry beer too!
I can't think of any alternative! Leave a Comment
|
Belgium beer is so good you might want to drink more then you can take!
Unless it is Christmass!
1. I tasted this beer on the 2001 edition of the 24 hours of beer in Antwerp.
It was a great beer and I tried it again last Christmas time 2004 in Brussels in the pub Delirium Tremens where they have over 2004 different beers.
It is a strong dark ale of 8,5 % but it goes in very well. Not too sweet as often dark beers can be.
2. Bieke is one of the other beers of Boelens. I liked this one too. Just try it out one day if you can lay your hand on it!
Contact information:
Kerkstraat 7
Belsele, 9111
Belgium
phone: +32 (0)37 72 32 00
Official website of Boelens Brewery
I heard it is very difficult to get this beer as it is often sold out at the brewery itself.
Drink slow, enjoy the taste....
and never leave a glass empty nor full!
That is what my late uncle said when he died with a smile on his face and his glass in his hands! singing his last song "I am dreaming of a white Christmass!"
go outside and make a snowman Leave a Comment
|
| | |
 Famous Antwerp Bolleke
and a local Waagstuk by irisbe
Het Waagstuk is a rather sweet comercial tasing tripel like beer. It is named after the pub Het Waagstuk. This name refers to an building that used to stand in the middle of the square and that was a public bascul. However during Napoleon's occupation it burned down.
Drink slowly, enjoy the taste....
and never leave a glass empty nor full!
That is what my late uncle said when he died with a smile on his face and his glass in his hands!
show character and don't give in... but get terrible thirsty viewing the others enjoy. Leave a Comment
|
 Beer: Oude geuze Drie
Fonteinen (three fountains) by irisbe
1. Oude Geuze, old riped gueze, rather to the soar and very well refreshing the thirst on a sunny and warm day.
DRIE FONTEINEN
Hoogstraat 2A
B-1650 BEERSEL
Tel. : +32 02/306.71.03
Fax : +32 02/305.07.41
E-mail : info@3fonteinen.be
or take a look at their website.
Tip: every year in April there is a Geuze tour in the area. Check one of the Geuze websites to keep informed about it!
Drink slowly, enjoy the taste....
and never leave a glass empty nor full!
That is what my late uncle said when he died with a smile on his face and his glass in his hands!
Go home and get bored! Leave a Comment
|
 Beer: Geuze Boon by irisbe
When the choice is that big!
Well start with one at the time!
mmmm looks like that second bottle to the left is already opened!
Boon beer is one of the best geuze beers you can taste! They are rather sour as a real gueze should be.
Mariage parfait, with a name like this, you can imagine the perfect taste!
I recommend this one on a very hot day on a terras outside. Relaxe man :)
Contact information:
Brewery Boon
Fonteinstraat 65
Lembeek, 1502
Belgium
phone: +32 (0)23 56 66 44
Brewery Boon.
Drink slowly, enjoy the taste....
and never leave a glass empty nor full!
That is what my late uncle said when he died with a smile on his face and his glass in his hands!
Drink a soda and regret afterwards you didn't tasted the beer Leave a Comment
|
|
|
