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The 16 Best Belgian Beers of All Time

By YPB Team

Monks who refuse to expand, wild yeast caught from the Brussels air, and a glass that needs its own wooden stand.

  1. Orval — ranked #11
    Orval
    A Trappist pale ale dosed with Brettanomyces, so every bottle tastes different with age.
    1000pts
  2. Achel 8 Blond — ranked #22
    Achel 8 Blond
    The smallest Trappist brewery's blond, made at an abbey on the Dutch border.
    600pts
  3. Cantillon Gueuze — ranked #33
    Cantillon Gueuze
    Spontaneously fermented in open vats in Brussels, blended from three vintages of lambic.
    551pts
  4. Delirium Tremens — ranked #44
    Delirium Tremens
    A strong pale ale in a speckled bottle with a pink elephant on the label.
    494pts
  5. Duvel — ranked #55
    Duvel
    A golden strong ale whose name means devil, poured into a glass shaped to hold the foam.
    428pts
  6. Kwak — ranked #66
    Kwak
    Served in a bulbed coachman's glass that needs a wooden stand to stay upright.
    428pts
  7. Chimay Blue — ranked #77
    Chimay Blue
    The Trappist dark ale that put Belgian monastery beer on shelves worldwide.
    350pts
  8. Hoegaarden — ranked #88
    Hoegaarden
    The witbier Pierre Celis revived in 1966 after the style had died out entirely.
    350pts
  9. Rochefort 10 — ranked #99
    Rochefort 10
    The strongest of the Rochefort Trappists, brewed with water from the abbey's own well.
    350pts
  10. Rodenbach Grand Cru — ranked #1010
    Rodenbach Grand Cru
    A Flemish red-brown ale aged in oak foeders, sharp with acetic acid.
    350pts
  11. Westvleteren 12 — ranked #1111
    Westvleteren 12
    Brewed by Trappist monks who sell it by appointment and refuse to expand.
    257pts
  12. Saison Dupont — ranked #1212
    Saison Dupont
    The farmhouse ale that defined an entire style for brewers outside Belgium.
    257pts
  13. Leffe Blonde — ranked #1313
    Leffe Blonde
    The abbey beer most of the world meets first, poured in every Belgian café.
    257pts
  14. Tripel Karmeliet — ranked #1414
    Tripel Karmeliet
    Brewed with barley, wheat and oats to a recipe traced back to a Dendermonde convent.
    257pts
  15. Westmalle Tripel — ranked #1515
    Westmalle Tripel
    The beer that invented the tripel style and gave it its name.
    0pts
  16. St. Bernardus Abt 12 — ranked #1616
    St. Bernardus Abt 12
    For decades brewed to the Westvleteren recipe under licence, and far easier to find.
    0pts

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