ALE No. 310: 30th Cambridge Beer Festival Programme

Foreign Beer

About the Foreign Beer bar

Trappist

Rochefort 8

Not as strong as its bigger brother, with lovely flavour

Rochefort 10

Strong, dark ale, massive taste, need to drink with cheese

Westmalle Tripel

Strong, light ale, lots of flavour

Orval

Light, hint of oranges

Westvleteren

Extremely rare to get this Trappist in the UK

Lambic

Cantillion Geuze

The sharpest and sourest geuze, excellent!

Cantillion Kriek

Very sour full flavour cherry beer

Cantillion Rose De Gambrinus

90% raspberry and 10% cherry, sour and excellent

Girardin Black Label Geuze

Excellent starter geuze, tending toward the citric

De Cam Geuze

Newest geuze brewer, see what you think

Girardin Framboise

Sourish raspberry.

Hansens Geuze

Return of this classic geuze. Try it!

Hansens Kriek

As for the Hansens Geuze

Ales and other Belgian beers

Duchesse De Bourgogne

West Flanders Red, sour and mature

Witkap Stimulo

Light-tasting ale, with hop flavours, also lightly citric

Witkap Tripel

Tripel ale from this brewery, light in flavours for a tripel

Ellezelloise Quentine

Classic straw coloured Belgian ale, slightly sweet

Ellezelloise Hercule

Belgian stout, yummie; named after the detective

Bieken Honey Beer

Tastes of honey

Echte Kriek

Sourish cherry beer

Moinette

Aromatic ale, lovely

Saison Dupont

A classic saison beer, with herbs

De Ranke XX Bitter

Hops, hops, hops!

Braiserie De Geants Gouyasse

New beer to Belgium and the festival. See what you think!

Braiserie De Geants Saison Voisoin

New saison beer from new brewery

Caracole Saxo

Interesting ale from this micro in the Wallonian area

Keizer Karel

Caramelly-type beer from a larger Belgian brewery

Dutch

Leeuw Valkenburg Wit

Classic wheat beer

T'IJ Columbus

Strong, dark ale

T'IJ Passij

May bok with lots of hops

Christoffel Blond

Dutch pilsner, very flowery and hoppy

Maasland De Schele Os

One of the original Dutch micro ales, excellent

Banantana

Beer flavoured with sultanas and bananas!

Harlem Old Ale

Monster of a new beer

Schelde Schoenappertje

Massive blackcurrant flavour in this ale

Prael Johnny

New beer to us

Prael Andree

New beer to us

German

Augustiner Helles

Classic German Helles

Augustiner Maximator

Dark monster of a beer, superb

Schnider Aventinus

The dark wheat beer

Mahr Weisenbok

Malty dark wheat beer. Cross between bok and weisse. Nice!

Mulhen Kolsch

Classic light beer, one of the best

Fruh Kolsch

Classic light beer, very popular

Andechs Dunkel Weisse

Cracking dark wheat beer

St Georgean Kellerbier

Strongly-hopped version of Helles, also less carbonation

St Georgean Weissebier

A lovely, slightly spiced wheat beer

Schlenkerla Rauchbier

Beer tasting of barbeque. Absolutely a classic

Jever Pils

German pilsner beer; dry and hoppy

Urige Alt

One of the best alt beers from Dusseldorf

Fuchshen Alt

The other best alt Beer from Dusseldorf

Goller Weissebier

Another slightly spiced wheat beer, nice!

Knitinger Dunkel

Classic Dunkel (dark) lagered beer

Wernesgruner Pils Legende

German Pilsner beer

Krombacher Pils

German pilsner beer

Czech

Lobkowicz

Czech pilsner beer; pale and dry.

Bernard Polofmany Lezak

Interesting-tasting light-coloured Czech beer

Northern French

Gavroche

Delicious biere sur lie.

Draught

Availability is limited on the draught, the draught beer will be advertised at the Foreign Bar in the session

Leeuw Valkenburg Wit

Classic Dutch wheat beer

La Chouffe

Saisonish spiced ale from the Ardennes. World classic.

Echte Kriek

Brown-beer-based cherry beer; nice!

Jopen Hoppenbier

Extremely hoppy and refreshing beer from Holland

Augustiner Helles

Classic German Helles beer

Schlenkerla Rauchbier

This classic, from the barrel!

Reisdorf Kolsch

Lovely Kolsch on draught

Urige Alt

This alt on draught! Try it now!

Hartmann Schwazer Bok

Although dark, do not miss this powerful tasting beer

Keesman Hellerbok

Cross between a helles and a bok; interesting