Leffe Beers

Well this is a surprise to me, as I was writing the "Leffe v Grimbergen" blog, I looked for my Leffe beers blog to link to it and I didn't have one. So it is time to put that right, although it is not a complete list of Leffe, I still have some to photograph.

I will start with the one that, you should know this by now, is my favourite.

Leffe, Blond from Belgium

6.6% deep gold colour with a thin head, sweet malt and bubblegum aroma, sweet strong bubbly malt taste and a slightly bitter aftertaste, I love it.

Next is, Leffe, 9 / Blue from Belgium

9.0% amber colour thin head, sweet fruity aroma, sweet fruity strong flavour, very nuch like a sronger version of the Blond, very nice strong beer.

Next we have, Leffe, Brune from Belgium

6.5% dark colour with a thin head, slight burnt malt aroma, tasty dark beer but if I had to choose, I would go with the Blond every time.

Now we come to something different, Leffe, Ruby from Belgium

5.0% red colour with a good head, aroma of red berries, sweet strawberry cherry and raspberry taste, a lot like the Affligem Rouge.
I am not a fan of these beers and lately, quiet a few of the large breweries have brought out their own versions, I suppose to steel away the market from the specialist fruit beer producers.

There is a Christmas one, Leffe, Bière de Noël from Belgium

6.6% deep red colour with a thin head, the aroma is spicy and very fruity, fruity Christmas taste, a good effort at a seasonal beer.

The final one (for now that is), Leffe, Tripel from Belgium

8.5%, stronger than the Blond, weaker than the Blue, somewhere in between and that is what it is like, great anyway.

Update, a new one Leffe, Royale from Belgium

7.5% deep gold with a thin head, sweet aroma, as my friend said it's a meaty version of Leffe blonde.

There are a few other beers that I think taste remarkably similar to Leffe Blond and therefore are all good beers in their own right.  Below are a selection of these beers, click on the photo for a link to my short reviews of them.

        

Leffe v Grimbergen

Leffe v Grimbergen

We usually have some Leffe in the house and when I found some of my other favorite Belgium beer, Grimbergen local for £0.69 ($1.00), I bought it all and thought we would do a direct comparison.

Well it was a rather pointless exercise, as I love them both but we did discover that Dot prefers the Leffe and I got some nice photos out of the exercise.  Both beers do taste very similar, although the Leffe is probably the slightly sweeter of the two.

Grimbergen, Blond from Belgium

   

6.7%, golden colour with a thin head, sweet fruity aroma and fruity yeasty malty taste, a really nice abbey beer.

Other beers from Grimbergen

Leffe, Blond from Belgium

   

6.6% deep gold colour with a thin head, sweet malt and bubblegum aroma, sweet strong bubbly malt taste and a slightly bitter aftertaste.

Other beers from Leffe 

Remembering Good Beers

Today while out hunting for new beers, I was asked by the proprietor of large beer shop, if I was sampling so many beers, how did I remember the good ones (I did buy fifteen beers from him).

It only took me a moment to come up with the answer and it's simple really, all I have to do is remember the Bad Beers, that way I do not have to make the mistake of drinking them again.

Of course I also keep a record on Flickr Beerflickring and add the bad ones to Flickr here Beer I would not buy again.