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As many of you may have guessed, I'm more than partial to a drop of beer from Belgium. Not just any beer mind, although the mass-produced, mass-marketed offerings like Maes and Stella are fine, but when you start digging into the specialist beers from that country, that's when you hit the mother-lode of brewing quality.
Of all the speciality beers from Belgium, I think Abbey ales are the best. And the cream of the crop of Abbey ales are the Trappist beers.
So, now that we've established my predelection for the efforts of certain monastries, which Trappist beer is my favourite?
Actually, it's Orval but I've already written about that.
Next best is.......the one I'm drinking at the time. And the one I was drinking when this review was but a twinkle in this opinionater's eye, was ROCHEFORT 8.
The ales which are brewed by ...
Advantages: A strong and tasty Trappist beer...complex and tasty. Disadvantages: Not my favourite beer style...but great nonetheless.
Following on from my previous two bottled beer reviews from February?s Chesterfield Beer Festival I am moving onto another excellent Belgian beer. This one is pretty strong and a little on the expensive side compared to your average half of beer. It is, however, rather good and goes by the name of Rochefort 8.
~~~THE BREWERY.
Rochefort is brewed at the Abbaye Notre Dame de St. Remy. It can be found in what used to be a Trappist Nunnery in Namur (a province in the Rochefort area of Belgium) deep in the Ardennes. The Abbey itself has been there since 1230, but beers have been brewed on the premises since the 16th Century. The present brewery that produces Rochefort 8 has dates from 1899, so is a relative newcomer!
They actually brew three beers with the name Rochefort, so it is quite easy to get confused. They vary according ...
Advantages: nice rooms Disadvantages: nothing major
After deciding to take a trip to Glasgow for a few days, my husband and I set out to find a good value hotel. After looking at the usual Travelodges and Premier Travel Inns, we came across the Campanile hotel which is like the French version of Travelodge. It was 52 pounds a night and had a secure car park, something which we found very good as parking in Glasgow tends to be quite expensive. Although the price was good we decided to shop around and managed to book 3 nights for 122 pounds on Expedia.
The location of the hotel was very good as it was in the newly upgraded and developed area near the SECC and surrounding the hotel was luxury apartments, the new Clyde Arc bridge, the new STV and BBC Scotland studios and the SECC and Glasgow Science Centre. It was 20 minutes walking to the Kelvingrove Art Museum and the Transport ...
