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Carlsberg Elephant is not that strong at 7.5 %. If you prefer the blonde beers, a Duvel will be better, or a Westmalle Tripel blond, or the Karmeliet...
But I'll try the Elephant if I see it.
Those specialty fruit beers nobody really drinks. Unless you mean Rodenbach, certainly an acquired taste but not bad. Very sour as it's riped in oak barrels.
For the common German beer-taste (the alc.level is between 4,9% and 5,2%) the "Elephant" is strong.
Two weeks ago I tried "Grimbergen blonde", but this has also that odd aftertaste, so I turned back to "Elephant."
The last months I used to have the Polish "EB" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbrewery ), a bit for family-reasons: my father's family lived there until Jan 1945.
But a Polish guy told me, that their beer for the German market is different than the original, lighter and less bitter. When I'd been in Poland some years ago, I've noticed that the beer there is stronger than here (over 6% alc).
The beverage-store in the next town has a good sortiment, also of foreign beers, but it's not that wide as in your next bigger town Gent:
About beer, riped in oak-barrels: last year in Scotland I've discovered such - and it was great! Smoky, but smooth and not bitter. But I couldn't find it in supermarkets, only in the tourist-shop of the "Highlander"-movie prop ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilean_Donan )
Maybe it was available here: http://www.ayrshirebeerfestival.co.uk/
Unfortunately it was not possible, to combinate the last IMCDb-user-meeting with tht event, although it was in the middle between dsl-town and my stay at
http://www.lighthouseholidaycottages.co.uk/
A propos lighthouse... I have to upload the pics for rjluna2, as I've promised a time ago. Here they are:
Actually in usage:
in the wee museum besides:
and here we have a triple "made for IMCDb-fellows" picture!!
When dsl saw this detail of the car in the foreground, he said "For cl82 it should have been "CRAP", not "GROUP"
