Duvel - A Devil of a Lager! (Duvel)

Member Name: jatkinson100

Product:	Duvel
Date:	10/01/02 (233 review reads)
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Advantages: An experience in itself, You will know it when you've had one!

Disadvantages: Supprisingly strong - it should carry a health warning

Duvel is probably the bestlager in... OK, you've heard it, but this time it's true. A lot fruitier than most "normal" lagers (though not sickly after a couple of pints like Hoegarden), Duvel (pron. Doo-v'l) is a true great. Introduced to me by a Belgian Uni friend, it tickles the taste buds to hysteria, but is suprisingly strong.

It's taste is fairly sweet (in comparrison to most lager), quite crisp, and it goes down like a plane in the Bremuda Triangle (easily and quickly) - and there is still a bang at the end! Duvel is suprisingly strong, and you have to be careful to remember that you are drinking a very potent beer.

No words can really do it justice, but make sure that you try it. Drink it very cold, in a rounded bottomed glass (in Belgium, the glass is as important as the beer, and each has its own type, designed specifically for it, to enhance the flavour).

I also highly recommend Leffe and Chimay, two other excellent lagers, but this remains king. Despite these beer's expense, they are worth it, for the sublime taste, and because it doesn't take many of them to get you singing!

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