Discover Belgian Beer

What wine is to France, beer is to Belgium. Join host Michael Fagan as he discovers a world of beers that is all about styles, tradition and innovation. Relax at a café, learn how to pour the perfect glass, explore the range of flavours and immerse yourself in a beer lovers paradise. Produced in 2000

[@lelkolens7952]

I love my country. Chocolate, fries,waffles,beer,.... How mutch awesomeness can fit in such a small country?

[@brucewayne-ej3cx]

lel kolens you should be ashamed. Dr evil comes from your country

[@horseplop9]

@@brucewayne-ej3cx Belgium Is Heaven

[@brucewayne-ej3cx]

@@horseplop9 the "belgian dip"

[@ReddoFreddo]

All food in Belgium is great, you should start focusing more on food in general for your national identity and less on individual foods. Belgian bread, pastry, cheese and ice cream are amazing too, and the word "amazing" is the right way to describe it, it literally amazes me every time I'm in Belgium, which is not often enough.

[@codybrown4609]

You are forgetting about the state mandatory weed farms

[@YouryDeWinter]

As a Belgian and beer lover, I would like to say that this documentary offers a great view to how we live in Belgium regarding to beer. Please note that lately (the last 5 to 10 years) restaurants are even opening creating dishes around beer instead of choosing a beer with a certain dish. As stated in the documentary, we do take beer serious here :)

[@joebanish7517]

Belgium is a magical place. The architecture and scenery of Ghent, Brugge, Antwerp, and Liege. The food, chocolate, frites, and beer. I've been three times and can't wait to return.

[@patrickwolf5796]

I, as an American, absolutely adore Belgium beer! I have had the more well known brands but would love to visit someday to find little surprises and see the Trappist and Abbey breweries. Those people know what is most important for happiness in daily living. The chocolate, the food, the scenery and architecture, history, family, and heritage, all are world class! If I ever have enough money to go on a journey, that is the first destination for me!

[@GuyWets-zy5yt]

I traveled a lot in USA in 70ies 80ies. I was surprised to see lot of Belgian beers in yor country. It was in small cities like Topeka, Clovis or ABQ. Greetings from🇧🇪🍀🥂

[@aaronsmith9173]

There is something seriously special about Belgian beer.

[@ReddoFreddo]

I know what you mean with "seriously special", but it's not just the beer. It's impossible to describe, I want to say it tastes good, but that puts it on the same level as Coca Cola linguistically, which is good but not _good._ like what good is in Belgium. It's just on another level of goodness in terms of taste. I don't know much about food, maybe this is what people mean with a "rich" or "complex" flavor, to me it just tastes extraordinarily good, so good I start laughing like a crazy person when I taste it.

[@hagen4264]

@@ReddoFreddo I really wish I could taste Belgium beer one day

[@XxowendanxX]

​@hagen4264 there are Belgian styles of ale if not actual Belgian ale in most places

[@twisted_hops]

Classic older beer video from 2000 but don't let that stop you from watching. Nice job and great to see some behind the scenes. I'm truly a fan of Belgium beers. Thanks for sharing.

[@ww3032]

The beers featured in this video are classics that will be forever good, even in this age of trendy craft beers. Well except maybe for the Stella artois. 😂

[@XxowendanxX]

I didn't know this is from 2000. I went to Belgium for a week in May of 2000 ❤🎉🇧🇪

[@joeya5147]

I wish I could like a video twice

[@RobertColianni]

This is a wonderful video with great old footage of Chimay, Bellevue, and Mort Subite! Perfect for the movie, but equally valuable for the aged brewer and beer historian. We don't get many short films like this showing the old days!

[@griffcain]

I have been drinking Chimay for 30 years. It has always been my favourite beer, and I love almost all beer!

[@MacSvensson]

that shows you have great taste! Chimay bleu has been my ondoing during many a nights out on the town in my younger years. Now, I mostly enjoy the sour geuze beers. Or the occasional Orval. I also like the recent trend of extra hopping

[@11thstalley96]

Sven Croon I love Orval Vieux, which is the only version available in North America. I have visited Belgium several times, but I haven’t see the Jeune version, which I’m really looking forward to trying. I was introduced to Chimay bleu 40 years ago, and I like to age it in my cellar, but I prefer Rochefort 10. Even though they’re not Trappist, I also like St. Bernardus 12, Pannepot from de Struise Brouwers and Val-Dieu Grand Cru. Belgian beer is the tits.

[@sneakyfatcat]

chimay is by far my favorite beer, if I could afford how expensive it is with import I would drink it everyday. They brew some incredible stuff :)

[@clemclemson9259]

same here Duvel is a runner up

[@kontrapunkti]

Great beer culture! Tripel Karmeliet is one of my favorites..

[@aaronsmith9173]

Musicus,, Tripel Karmeliet means business!!!!

[@KCJbomberFTW]

You have to try De Garre if you get the chance

[@waloacme]

Belgium beers are a thing of beauty indeed. Nice documentary. Cheers!

[@Disco-Terry]

I love this doc, I watch it every time I'm on the Belgians!

[@Majnun74]

Fantastic video! I hope to visit Belgium one day.

[@Cheerschick]

Really enjoyed learning about my favorite style of beer! Now i just need to plan my pilgrimage to Belgium! Cheers to St. Arnold, Lex

[@pleabargain]

Enjoyable. Informative. Can't wait to get back to Belgium!

[@KCJbomberFTW]

15:20 the guy is smirking like he poisoned him 🤣

[@Janhartman74]

I make a lot of biking trips to Belgium, Allways finish the ride with a great beer.

[@jmay3200]

This video has aged very well: simple, straight forward and very enjoyable watching. Hits a lot of well known brands to appeal to its core viewers, but that makes it quite a refreshing watch vs channels just showing new and edgy craft beers.

[@mohammedcohen]

I love Lambics, abbey ales...in short...I love Belgian ales & beers...and thank you Michael Jackson for the introduction...

[@PilotVolunteer]

This video was superb! I lived in Belgium for nine years. I enjoyed many of the beer styles highlighted in this video. When receiving visitors, I always took them to the sour, lambic beer spot in Brussels, as a tourist spot.

[@sealcebbor1315]

I study at the university of Leuven. And indeed students here love it :D the whole city smells when Stella Artois is brewing.

[@alflurin]

When I started to try and drink other beers than the commercial mass produced beers, I've came across the Chimay beers. I bought the three types and yes I love the blue Chimay... It is "out of this world".... and although I have german ancestry, I don't think much of the lager.... it is good for a hot day but doesn't have a lot of flavour.

[@MacSvensson]

we used to go out on Chimay bleu, back when I was young. Not the best idea as it often rendered me an incromprehensible fool by the time the 6th or 7th glass got served. Still had a good time though :-P

[@XxowendanxX]

​@@MacSvenssonprobably less of a hangover tho

[@Jake-kn3xg]

It's uncanny how much this fella sounds like Billy Bob Thorton

[@heartlings9993]

Belgium beers are simply the best... An exctasy of senses, u never drank a beer if u haven't tried Belgium beer 👍

[@hismajestyericcartmanthese5755]

Michael Fagan is the best he never boring

[@Crosis89]

I'm not from Belgium but Belgium's beer is the best in the world, hands down.

[@22Sputnik07]

Great video! My favorite beers from this amazing country!

[@dr.funkenstein96]

Thank you for the beautiful portrait of our culture ! I opened a Westmalle Tripel whilst watching

[@patrickmuller2044]

Did the same with a Blue Chimay. Cheers ;-)

[@XxowendanxX]

I did the same with a golden monkey 😂 ✨️

[@andreaskobersteinschilksee4227]

It is true, for beer lovers Belgium is the paradise. A very good film which made me become thirsty again...

[@graykilpatrick1319]

Wonderful video. Belgian beers are my favorite. Thank u!

[@laverdisti500]

I very proud being born in belgium , and i like our way of life , beer , friet with mayonaise , chocolate , grijze noordzeegarnalen , wafels , Mussels mmmm, fresh fish , i like to travel arround the world but i'm always very happy to back at home , and the first thing i do at the airport , yep drinking a stella artois 33 cl , cheers

[@gabornyers7091]

Such a great Journey! Well made,Thanks for sharing 🍻

[@ShakespeareCafe]

Free, as in Free Beer. I live by that motto

[@specialized41]

Very informative and the visual of city are beautiful.!! Thanks!

[@D5quared91]

I've been all over Europe, and to me... The Belgians brew the best!! :) But, Stella Artois is NO GOOD compared to the real stuff!! :D

[@suzukirm125ify]

Thank u sir.

[@clevelandmortician3887]

Green bottle is the reason

[@underthehood2148]

Great info! Thanks! I'm going on vacation to Belgium and now I know why!

[@Brandon-bh7pj]

I would very much love to go to Belgium one day and try all the wonderful beer Belgium has to offer. Love Belgium beer.

[@ReddoFreddo]

If you ever go to Belgium, don't just try the beer, try everything, notice how everything tastes better there.

[@graafinhetbos]

Nice docu only we got in 2013 more than 1300 beers with label ! now something like 1600 😉

[@WWStu]

I really enjoyed watching this.

[@bgm1911]

After watching this, I want a beer; a double, a triple, and a quad!

[@georgetempest9627]

Aah, Duvel - one of the best!

[@luckyz_narayan]

I like your videos please do more documentary like this...

[@jonathansmall4573]

Very nice documentary.

[@jbaezhernandez]

Nice documentary, really enjoyed it

[@1983isai]

Amazing video!

[@steveparkes3356]

Very enjoyable documentary

[@christiaan81music]

So they haven't even mentioned 'La chouffe' marvelous blonde beer! Do try it!

[@tosht2515]

+Christiaan Haesen Yes indeed. For a couple of years it was in my top five favorite Belgian beers. Very delicious.

[@Rocky-hw9dv]

Yes but leffe bought them

[@XxowendanxX]

Holy smoke, I can't believe you said that. La Chouffe McChouffe is pretty much my favorite

[@MegaMayday16]

i as a german hate our "reinheitsgebot" it says beer can only be made of 3 ingridients (wasser hopfen malz)....we are so deprived :((((

[@curoximaima4137]

Muito maneiro, parabéns!!

[@bipinchandra2664]

Lambic traditional brewing season is between October and May, prolonged rise in temperature due to climate change is sadly reducing this brewing window,

[@ELGlueckert]

Love me some Belgian beer, especially Delirium Tremens, Delirium Nocturnum and Saison Dupont. Would love to try Westvleteren XII.

[@MrWimvdg]

+Eric Glueckert you should try leffe and grimbergen theyre my favourites

[@ELGlueckert]

Don't care for Leffe, have only had their blonde which was okay. Recently tried Orval Trappist beer, not too bad. Another one that I think is okay is Hoegaarden.

[@MrWimvdg]

ahh more for the light beers then im more of a dark beer type guy

[@ELGlueckert]

+MrWimvdg Delirium Nocturnum is a dark beer, I rather liked it. It's just that I haven't had many from Belgium, had a few from Unibroue out of Canada.

[@MrWimvdg]

well then theres only one thing left get to belgium and taste

[@titobee-lard5724]

beautiful!!

[@ahuramazda32]

I miss Belgium so much

[@garfieldt]

quality documentary

[@MegaMackproductions]

I'll admit I'm new to beer drinking, being only 21 but I have come to love Belgian beers.

[@flitsertheo]

In Belgium that would mean 5 years of experience drinking beer. If your parents didn't let you sip from their glass when you were younger.

[@XxowendanxX]

That's because you are wise beyond your years 😊

[@robertneven7563]

amazing video sir thank s

[@DJSamsonofficial]

Always fun to randomly look at beer videos and spot a café where i only live 200m from. "Den Bottel" (English: The Bottle) in the small city of Hoogstraten. It's still open today. #2320

[@hsafee]

next stop, belgium

[@Materva-hv6sz]

Hell yes!

[@richardbickell7692]

I agree with all u people they r also the nicest people too their beer is heaven

[@JeramiaValentine]

I'm here because of my Beer 3010 class at Metropolitan State University of Denver :D

[@pekkalaitinen8769]

Now I want to live in Belgium

[@thomask7441]

belgian beer is the best beer in the world makes dutch and german beer look like dishing water

[@suzukirm125ify]

Heineken=URINE

[@marc0871]

For the dutch beers, if you only know Heineken, Amstel and Grolsch, then you're right. But did you know the Netherlands now hosts more breweries than Belgium? Sure, we can't hold a candle to the beer culture of Belgium and we are only now coming out of the deep, dark era of beer poverty that pilsner brought, but there are a lot of small breweries that try to bring back traditional Dutch beers. For instants Jopen brewery with their Koyt beer with Gagel. A herb mixture. Not to take anything away from the fine Belgium beers, of course.

[@MacSvensson]

@marc with Gagel, rly? Nice. You should compare it to the Belgian beer "Gageleer". Also, ofc, with gagel :-) I have some Gageleer in-house at the moment. I'll try to find some Koyt beer, and maybe I'll do a comparison video on YT :-)

[@11thstalley96]

Traditionally, Belgian beer is the best beer in the world. International beer cognoscenti are becoming more aware of the great craft beer being brewed in North America. American and Canadian brewers aren’t constrained by tradition which can mean that they go to far with innovation, but can produce some outstanding beer that is unrecognizable when compared to the unfortunate macro breweries that the US was known for.

[@11thstalley96]

marc0871 Brouwerij de Molen needs to be mentioned. Even though it’s a small brewpub in Bodegraven, they brew some amazing beers based on English tradition...stouts, porters, pale ales, and barley wines. One of the most prevalent trends in craft brewing involve the traditional aging of beer in wooden casks that had held wine, port, or whisky, and Molen has been a leader in using scotch whisky barrels.

[@jean-paulthyme1973]

I love beer 😍😍😍😍😍

[@mauromicelotta6559]

Excelente 👏🏽

[@Aynesd]

Really good video.

[@sinzan777]

Belgian Beer is very good

[@MrWimvdg]

btw we excally have over 1100 different beers instaid of 500

[@suzukirm125ify]

1200..

[@MrWimvdg]

da kan ook

[@aben8763]

I am a lost atheist, but there are one million reason to love Christianity

[@stanlindert6332]

Americans love Belgium beers.

[@Materva-hv6sz]

Yes we do!

[@michelvansteenberge7251]

Merci mon ami

[@keithlammers4316]

Yup! I love Belgian sours

[@brian9670]

America has really great craft beers of all kinds, but as an American, I do not yet think they have yet reached the level of mastery that the Belgians have.

[@krisiglehart3061]

Belgian Doubles and Triples.. Great Beer!!

[@Brucelygamereviewer]

During the Stella Artois brewing proces you can even smell the heated hop aroma's in the city of Leuven.

[@rossross9281]

captain mirrorboots I bet when you drink Stella over there it’s a million times better than what most people have had.

[@PrasadKannansaivam]

michael looking very young in this video, i don't know which year this video was taken. very good seccion to know. can u please do some large video for australian wine and south african wine please.

[@MarcosKtulu]

The video info says it was produced in 2000, so there you go, at least 17 years

[@nikkiabbott5333]

so want to go to Belgium and drink beer now... how do I get a job doing this??

[@KCJbomberFTW]

There’s actually 224 Breweries in Belgium and there’s 11 Trappist breweries there and 1 in America

[@joeya5147]

well the number changes all the time. But there has never been 11 Trappist Breweries in Belgium. Right now its only 6 with Achel, Orval, Westvleteren, Chimay, Westmalle, and Rochefort. But it does have the most of any country. Theres 14 in total around the world.

[@KCJbomberFTW]

@@joeya5147 I hadn’t realized how many weren’t actually in Belgium like LaTrappe, and Zundert

[@joeya5147]

@@KCJbomberFTW yeah theres a ton! All super good. Theres a couple new ones that started in England and Spain that look really cool that I havent tried yet.

[@derekfrost8991]

Lambic for me.. :)

[@mohammedcohen]

"...a beer full of vitamins, nutrients...and alcohol...the story I got was that the monks brought a sample to the Pope...who after tasting it, declared it a good beverage for Lent...he was most likely used to wines and after tasting this bitter beverage decided it was indeed a penance to drink it...

[@BalloonInTheBalloon]

[@TheFloaterjoe]

Lambic can be made anywhere but not sold as "lambic" and hoegarden secret ingredient is chamomile

[@Sirk1966]

I wouldnt say the mecca for beer lovers, several countries could say that, depending what you like, I myself am a Germany beer lover ( Munich ) and i'm just now venturing into Belgian beers. I AM NOT a sour l9ver at all, and beers at 8% or higher, can be enjoyed durring an afternoon drink session with freinds. 2 or 3 and your done.

[@AshtonArcher]

16 years old now!

[@mohammedcohen]

...abbey beers beat the holy hell out of the insipid liquids - flogged as beer - here in the USA...

[@American_Badass26]

Enjoy a cold one today. 🍺

[@farrier53]

What about Rochefort? Westmalle? Dame de Bourgogne? Van Steenberge, Ste-Feuillien? St-Bernardus? Etc...soooo tasty!

[@ChaosAI24]

And when you think that the beers presented here are not the best belgian beers...

[@squiremuldoon5462]

Very informative, but sadly a lot of the breweries shown are now owned by ABinbev, did they sponsor your video?

[@borinotambe]

Thumbs up

[@zyguo9023]

Beer~

[@FirstLast-qf1df]

10:57 11:40 He's definitely a Canadian

[@hbh32210]

yes

[@trespasser121]

Is this LCBO as in Ontario liquor board? That would be funny , because I can no longer find my favorite Belgium beers here in Ontario - Christoffel and Maredsous blond.

[@MacSvensson]

Maredsous is an excellent choice. I must admit I've never had Christoffel yet. Hmmm... that sounded kinda wrong :-P

[@bingevintage8124]

Monks have nothing better to do than make beer and get f***ed up lol

[@Miklosplaylists]

9:50 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borsod_Brewery :)

[@avenueqlover2122]

Why do they only visit InBev breweries??? WHY

[@viske00]

+Zach Stetson because inbev buyed all those breweries, they are not all originally from inbev. If they see a lot of profit, they buy it...

[@brunopinkhof630]

Try Royal Palm.

[@Ca11mero]

Kinda funny how their accent almost sounds like a swedish accent

[@PetrD100]

Why belgian have so small beer glasses?

[@valeriekranen7347]

Most of beer glasses are around 33cl in Belgium. In the Czech Republic beer glasses are much bigger, but the amount of alcohol is a lot lower. So in the end of the evening the amount of alcohol you drank is almost the same.

[@bpinkhof]

Not every beer is that good, but we have some special beers and local beers and new beers that are not for export at the moment. Some old special beers gives you a taste like you had a live centuries ago and gives you a very spiritual experience but you have to taste a lot of beers to find yours. Go to special local beer dealers and you will find more special beers for special experiences. The people in the store can recommend you very good ones. They make also new beers, local beers. If you only could taste them you would feel like you are in heaven. Musicians can make some special music sometimes. The comic strips and animations are very good. I don't like guns but Belgium makes some special quality guns. Belgium is pro USA and Canada. They love also other countries in the world. But not the Arabic world. Thailand is better for example or the Carribbean area. Lambic and Geuze are wonderful. Belgium is not a spaghetti country but he best Spaghetti Bolognaise etc... can be found at Pee Klak in Strombeek. Very known by locals. Incredible spaghetti, just like the secret recepy of coca-cola.

[@ahmedsgallery3507]

Might as well hell shiiii everyone fittn to drank !!!

[@mariacallas9962]

belle-vue...for real? forget that "beer" and drink a Cantillon please.

[@robertneven7563]

in the first .W.W the germans burn the libery to the ground in Louvain, and lutting a lot of brewery s in 1918

[@megabrout]

It's a pity they chose belle-vue, out of all the lambic brewers