{"id":213,"date":"2005-04-03T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2005-04-02T12:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=213"},"modified":"2011-03-02T14:29:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T01:29:22","slug":"grimbergen-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2005\/04\/03\/grimbergen-double\/","title":{"rendered":"Grimbergen Double"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Grimbergen<\/a>
Diary entry #22, Grimbergen Double<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Grimbergen Double. 330ml, $8, 6.5%, 3\/4\/05. Bless those Belgian monks. The Nobertines have made a great, accessable abbey beer. Dark red-brown, bubbly, but not overstrong. (Despite neat \/ freaky eagle on the label.)<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, October 2010:<\/strong> From this entry, and the previous, it appears I occasionally have trouble with spelling the word “accessible”. I’m also wrong to credit the monks; a lot of these Belgian “Abbey-style” beers are just Abbey-style<\/em>, these days, with production done (as here, and with the Judas<\/a> immediately prior) by giant commercial breweries who have either swallowed the original makers in the various waves of mergers and acquisitions that go on, or are just paying licenses for the name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verbatim: Grimbergen Double. 330ml, $8, 6.5%, 3\/4\/05. Bless those Belgian monks. The Nobertines have made a great, accessable abbey beer. Dark red-brown, bubbly, but not overstrong. (Despite neat \/ freaky eagle on the label.) Afterthoughts, October 2010: From this entry, and the previous, it appears I occasionally have trouble with spelling the word “accessible”. I’m … Continue reading Grimbergen Double<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[26,6,16],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-belgian","tag-pages","tag-belgium"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":512,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/10\/07\/malt-shovel-new-norcia-abbey-ale\/","url_meta":{"origin":213,"position":0},"title":"Malt Shovel \/ New Norcia Abbey Ale","author":"Phil","date":"October 7, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Another recommendation from the guy in the markets, and he's two for two. Which also backs up my earlier praise for the James Squires people. Fairly heavy at 7%, it's a very appealing golden amber, and smells utterly gorgeous -- all flowery, fruity and citrusy. The taste is fresh, with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Actual Diary entries"","block_context":{"text":"Actual Diary entries","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/diary\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Malt Shovel Abbey Ale","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Malt-Shovel-Abbey-Ale-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2043,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/03\/11\/yeastie-boys-blondie-rapture\/","url_meta":{"origin":213,"position":1},"title":"Yeastie Boys ‘Blondie: Rapture’","author":"Phil","date":"March 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"As much I was enjoying the relative novelty of a Friday Night Off, I was also having a Bit Of A Day. The Gonzo and the writing helped somewhat, but when I returned to the Malthouse and saw that a few tap beers had run out, necessitating a fridge shuffle,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Actual Diary entries"","block_context":{"text":"Actual Diary entries","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/diary\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Yeastie Boys 'Rapture'","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yeastie-Boys-Rapture-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2221,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/03\/29\/the-trappist-dance-card\/","url_meta":{"origin":213,"position":2},"title":"The Trappist Dance Card","author":"Phil","date":"March 29, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I've struggled for a while to come up with a similie for this. It might be the Beer Geek equivalent of an Adventure Freak climbing Everest and swimming the Channel in one weekend. Or, in Geek terms, of watching a whole season of The Wire in one sitting -- with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Actual Diary entries"","block_context":{"text":"Actual Diary entries","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/diary\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"A Full Trappist Dance Card","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trappist-Dance-Card-set-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":569,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/11\/08\/tuatara-ardennes\/","url_meta":{"origin":213,"position":3},"title":"Tuatara ‘Ardennes’","author":"Phil","date":"November 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Verbatim: Tuatara 'Ardennes'. A belgian-style strong golden ale from local favourites Tuatara. Just recently back on tap at work, and thereby eligible for staff drinks. Huzzah. One of our regulars (a formidable Beer Nerd) rates it as the #2 All-Around Best Value Beer Buy on the Planet, which isn't a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Actual Diary entries"","block_context":{"text":"Actual Diary entries","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/diary\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Tuatara 'Ardennes'","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tuatara-Ardennes-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":285,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2007\/09\/12\/het-kapittel-watou-abt-tripel\/","url_meta":{"origin":213,"position":4},"title":"Het Kapittel Watou Abt \/ Tripel","author":"Phil","date":"September 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Verbatim: Kapittel Watou Tripel. 330ml, $6 or so, 10%, 12\/9\/07. Random find at Rumbles. Funny cartoon monks on the front. Bottle conditioned, nice bubbles to show it. Amber, but smells and tastes darker. Nice low fruitiness. Afterthoughts, October 2010: Correctly listing \/ categorising these things sometimes gets quite tricky, when\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Actual Diary entries"","block_context":{"text":"Actual Diary entries","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/diary\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Het Kapittel Watou Abt","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Diary-1038-Kapittel-Watou-Tripel-300x177.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":462,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/10\/05\/emersons-jp-2008\/","url_meta":{"origin":213,"position":5},"title":"Emerson’s ‘JP’ 2008","author":"Phil","date":"October 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"'JP' is a regular in Emerson's healthily-populated series of seasonal releases. It's named in honour of JP Dufour, a Belgian who is reputedly largely responsible for introducing the fledgling local brewing scene to the joys of beers from his homeland. He was a professor at Otago University, I believe with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Actual Diary entries"","block_context":{"text":"Actual Diary entries","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/diary\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Emerson's 'JP' 2008","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Emersons-JP-2008-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}