You can visit the Hertog Jan brewery in Arcen (near Venlo). In the same village you can also go to Graanbranderij IJsvogel where they make jenever, bitters and that stuff. A Dutch tradition is a "kopstoot" a glas pils and a shot jenever on the side....
Tip, you can visit La Trappe Abbey, there is a tour an d a great terrace where a can try all the beer they produce. And they have bitterballen with beer! The food is very good and there is a shop where you can buy beer, cheese, bread. It's located in Berkel-Enschot nearby Tilburg. 😊
La Trappe Quadripple is indeed not one you usually drink a lot of (if you order a beer at the club you get pilsner). Usually craft beers in general you drink like 3 to 5 of in an evening, and usually all different ones. It's more of a at home with friends/family or in a cafe you sit down at a table kind of drink.
im dutch and i went to the LaTrappe brewery a few years ago. its awesome you have the kloister up top and the basement is this huge stainless steel bottling plant, they run a bar inside too where we could try their new experiments, one of which is now commercially available. the guy in the black dress is the most senior monk there. LaTrappe quadruple is my fav special beer and my fav pilsner is Hertog Jan, its very popular here. Heineken Silver is the light variant with less calories, its not very popular at all. Amstel is very popular near Amsterdam where its from but i really hate it. Grolsh and Bavaria is quite common too.
I was missing Amsterdam Maximator 11.6%, my favourite brew. However I can drink it only with a splash of lemon juice. 2 cans and 🤪 It's quite popular here in CH but probably not so in DE.
The Brand IPA is really good imo. Also you missed the epic Leffe blonde. And last if you want something really special herfstbock like, try the kasteel donker! Great video! ❤
Hertog Jan has multiple variations the grand prestige is one of mine favorites. But they also create very good barrel projects. If you want to go for dutch special beers i would recomend Moersleutel, they experiment allot. I realy like their dark beers they go to 10% and higher 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
I have a La Trappe triple or quadrupel every time I make chili or something else which needs beer. Gives a great flavor to the food and having to drink the leftover beer isn't bad either.
Really, I personally prefer using leffe for cooking. They are a bit more basic and understated in their flavor and usualy with some more deeper notes, which just translates better in coocking I think
I am a dutch brewer the quadruppel is most of the time a beer people drink 1 maybe 2 just to enjoy the beer not to get drunk to get drunk people just take a pilsner
Quadruppel is probably supposed to be drunk only 1 or 2 of over a night and really enjoying it like you would an expensive wine or a cigar. It is definitely not binge drinking material. Tried that, don't do it :') I've got some tolerance but 4 of those on too short of a night will give me a rough time walking to bed without bumping into the door first.
For me Zundert has the best beer in the Netherlands. However, I'm not a fan of pilsners and lighter beers. And if I have a beer (La Trappe Quadrupel is a good example), I'll have one for the entire evening. I don't have the need to keep drinking, I just want to enjoy the taste, which I cannot with pilsners. I prefer dubbel, quadrupel and autumn/winter bockbier myself. The darker beers fit me better.
You guys are comparing wine to port. You have Pilsener like Heineken, Hertog Jan and Bavaria. Then you have 'special' beers like 'La Trappe' and 'Oedipus'. Also the 'Bok' and 'Weizen' are in a special category. I like Stimming on the background though, very German ;)
ThaiThai and LaTrappe Quadruppel are really among my blind choices. I love em. They are on par with Westmalle Trippel. But the instances where I want to go for lower alcohol perecentage, Hertog Jan does the job really fine.
Dutch here: I don't like triples or quadruples at all, and if I have one I like I never drink more than 1 at a time. but basically I like my beer to be below 7% . I rather have some hard liquor if I want something stronger , like whisky
phil, good rating, number one and two are beers from the province (Bundesland) Limburg, you know Venlo (where i'm from), Roermond, Sittard, Maastricht, bordering Germany. Hertog Jan is the best pilsner from the Netherlands I think, Brand is also very good. I think the Gulpener pilsner is also one of the best
Thats how I open a beer or with a lighter. Also funny story, so my dad like beer and he drinks his beer fast, so one day I came home with grolsch canon ( 11,5%) . So he drinks one and he said: thats a nice beer , he didn't know about the % btw. So he takes another and another so after 5 of those he wanted to go to the toilet but fell down on the couch and he looked at me with big eyes and said: well that really is a canon. Anyway I love to see you guys when your in the hague I by you a beer and yes hertog jan is the best.
Grolsch is in my opinion the best beer of all in this video for all-round drinking. La Trappe Triple or Quadruple are great for an evening with a movie. And Heineken is just never acceptable.
The beer with a high alcohol percentage is mostly a beer to enjoy on a terrace , this beer is not for drinking it quickly. And did you drink the cooled? And a question, when you don't really like beer but only pilsener, why do a beer taste test? Grüssen aus Tilburg!
If you drink Heineken, you hate beer 🤣. La Trappe is the best, the original brewery stands in Moergestel near Tilburg. The monks had nothing to do so they started brew beer.
Beer and the Netherlands.....did you know hops and weed are from the same family? Quadrippel is actually Dutch. and Bokbier is loved in Autumn (although its German) its like a brown beer with a hint of stout
Actually there are different bok beers. There is autumn bok, but there is also spring bok and winter bok and I've even seen summer bok. Autumn bok is most common though.
As a native Dutch man, grown up in the south of the netherlands. I have to say: our beers are the worst beers in whole of Europe and Heineken being the worst of them all.
Literally all the Dutch words in this video are very similar to their German counterparts. Phil should trust his instinct a bit more and the language is mastered! There's a ton more different beers, but Heineken is not the worst. Personally I like the strong kinds best.
I will never drink Bavaria again, not a fan. I am from Mierlo, Noord-Brabant but it is just not for me. I am a Grolsch, Hertog-Jan kind of woman. Who doesn't like a "beugel flesje" ha? A good IPA is also welcome. But to each their own ofcourse. Love to see you guys try all these! With those "bock biertjes" you could make some great food as well.
Phil I am so happy with you choosing Hertog Jan as your number one. It is THE pilsner of choice for people that know what's good for 'em!, also I had the same experiences with getting my dad a beer from the basement 😂.
@@00wheelie00 Not every Dutch beer drinker does agree. I prefer Alfa, Brand and Gulpener. But to be honest: my first choice would be a German Export like DAB or Paulaner.
Hertog Jan and Grolsch are our best pilsners in my opinion. As for the rest, you had an interesting sample of Dutch beers! You should try Texels skuumkoppe next time; that's one of my favorite newer beers.
La Trappe Quadruple is certainly one that will sneak up on you. Very refined taste and then boom :-) For me this is a beer to enjoy when watching a movie or reading a book, slow consumption.
Regarding the pilsners, Hertog Jan is often regarded as the most crowd pleasing. Different people have different taste. The east likes to drink Grolsch, with Hertog Jan as second most popular. The west like to drink either Amstel or Heiniken, also with Hertog Jan as second choice. The south drinks Bavaria or Jupiler with Hertog Jan as the follow up. There are also areas where Hertog Jan is the number one. So all and all, you can never go wrong with it.
als iemand uit het westen zie ik idd heiniken en amstel het meeste. maar ik vind het niet bepaald lekker. ga veel liever voor grolsch en als dat er niet is hertog jan. en dat komt best vaak voor. heineken en amstel zijn alleen populair in de bar, maar niet bij mensen thuis.
@@Dutch-99nou. hertog jan is juist goed bier voor beginners. het is wat zoetiger. heineken en amstel zijn meer festival bier. want het maakt niet veel uit voor de smaak of het verwaterd is.
I hate when people use their teeth, but some of the people I know still do. I would go for a bottle opener or you know a lighter is always nice. We have this metal stairs in our hallway, that works as well 😅
La Trappe Triple is the best beer in the world! I did not drink beer till I was 36. When I found out I had lived next to the brewery of La Trappe for the first 18 years of my life cycling alongside it frequently, without knowing! hahaha. It's as good, or better, as Westmalle Triple.
La Trappe is my favorite brand. The actual monastary is a 20 min bikeride away. It is a really nice place to sit, have beer and some food. Wich beer is depends on the season really. In summer it is more blond and wit. In winter it is more dubbel, trippel and quadrupel. The Isid'or is also really amazing.
@@jamesedwards1284 DT is right; on the east and south-east border, people speak the same dialects on both sides. Dutch and platt-Deutsch are basically the oldest languages of all the West-Germanic languages. Old-Englisch, Dutch (so also platt-Deutsch) are quite the same. Though Dutch and German are very close, Dutch is much closer to English than German is. (In the golden-age era the term Dutch was being referred to there own old -English as well)
@@jamesedwards1284he is saying he knows german so he can kinda decipher what the dutch words mean. But he can also speak english ofcourse which helps as well.😊
Fun fact: the Dutch "Bok"- beer was originally based on a style of beer brewed in Einbeck, Germany (in the local dialect pronounced as "Oanbock"). It is somewhat heavier in alcohol than pilsener and reddish/brown of colour. In Dutch, a "bok" is a billy goat or buck, so on the label this animal is often showed. But it is traditionally a German beerstyle.
The Oedipus thai thai was my weirdest encounter with dutch beer! My advice is to climb with the alcohol percentage, that way your taste isn't as much "preferred". Also a way to naturalize your taste buds is to eat a piece of cheese between tasting beers!
Amstel beer is named after the Amstel river that runs through Amsterdam. Try rinsing your glasses out between bottles, the residue from the previous beer could affect the flavor of the next. Thanks for the video.
Grew up and studied in the Netherlands myself. In the category 'Pilsener', in my opinion, Hertog Jan is by far the best one. Also some interesting beers you might try for a possible next episode: 'IJwit' from 'Brouwerij 't IJ' (Brewery from Amsterdam, you can get it in every supermarket, Albert Heijn definitely sells it), Triple Karmeliet (Beer from Belgium, also sold in most Dutch supermarkets, be careful, it's a strong one) and Leffe Blond (Also from Belgium, sold in most Dutch supermarkets, especially good in Summer time). Living abroad now, and watching this video makes me realize how much I miss those amazing beers, haha! Proost!
Hertog Jan is also my fav pils. and La trappe Quadrupple is my fav among all those beers. i could drink arround 8 over the evening and ill still be okay (ish) :)
On the "Gaia" beer by Oedipus, which says "Treat your mother right", Gaia is the name of a Greek Goddess of nature and of the planet. You could call her Mother Earth. So the bottle calls upon us to treat the planet - our Mother - right 😊 Update: @shottglass6334 points out a wholly different layer of meaning. The name of the brewery is Oedipus. And in Greek mythology, Oedipus killed his father and married his own mother, even having children with her. He did not know they were his parents, as he was abandoned at birth, but still. "Treat your mother right" gets a VERY different meaning this way. Nice one, brewery! And tip of the hat to @shotglass6334!
One of my favorite beers from the Netherlands is Texels Skuumkoppe, especially when sitting on the terrace in the sun. I can enjoy one glass for about 30 minutes :)
I would also choose Hertog Jan (which indeed means Herzog) as the best Dutch Pilsener. There is always a lot of debate between people who love Heineken, Amstel, Grolsch or Bavaria, which is best and which is just piss water. But they all agree that Hertog Jan is a very good beer. The Brand Weizen is also a pretty decent attempt to emulate a German Weizen, but would prefer a Weihenstephaner, König Ludwig, Erdinger or Paulaner any day of the week.
I am not much of a beer drinker, but my grandmother used to make beef stew with bock beer. It was so savory and delicious with the dark caramel tastes of the beer reduction and beef juices. My grandfather always looked forward to the "bock season". I miss your cooking oma.
Grolsch is a wonderful beer & I’ve not tried LaTreppe so that’s on the cards. Fusion on beer flavours needs to be subtle as it’s a drink that needs multiple amounts to agree with one’s palate 🍻.
Proost. Good overall beers I think. But you missed the best one. It's called Kanon by Grolsch. High percentage with amazing taste. Next time just buy one and try. And have fun😂
When bud light was mentioned by Deana and Phil went you're disqualified. I mean.. yes! Because we all know bud light should not call itself a beer in any way shape or form 💁🏼♀️
Oh dear, don't use a glass that has been cleaned with dishwashing liquid! All the beers died immediately. You need two fingers of foam on top. It's beer law. Also the beer is called Bavaria because they use the bavarian way of brewing. They called it Bayerisches bier but were told by the German court that they were not allowed to use that name, so they now use the latin name for Bayern.
As a dutchie, you actually choose the worst categories you can pick Triple is better then quadruple, if you never had triple you don’t like quadruple 😂
Fun game with la trappe we play in the netherlands. We call it "trappie op trappie af" (wich translates to: going up the strairs, going down the stairs). Trap is the dutch word for stairs. 1. you get all the la trappe beers twice 2. you order them on alcohol percentage from low to high and then back to low 3. you drink them in that order
Heiniken purposly makes their beer worse by being in a green bottle thats why most beers are in a brown bottle (like the Hertog Jan) that blocks UV light better than green glass keeping a beer better for a longer time
Hey Philander Deana, I prefer to drink the Belgian trappist beer but I also think that Dutch trappist la trappe is one of the best beers,,haha, yes we Belgians don't drink piss, but beer with a lot of % alcohol…But light beer is my favorite Singha 🍺
Most of us Dutch unfortunately go for quantity. I'm happy because I've learned to appreciate beer for its quality. Please no millennials' beer for me (ipa 😑😝). Sipping is enjoying; most specialty beers from Belgium are made for that!
@@Needlestitch ,As you enjoy the Belgian 🍺 👍, I enjoy the veal croquette with sandwich, huzarensalade and tomato soup, I often drive to the Netherlands to eat them, because here in Belgium they are not tasty.
Thanks for this video. As a Dutchie I am often curious about what other nationalities might think of our beer. You gave such a cute and thorough review of it! Subscribed to enjoy more future goodness coming from you. Thanks again!
About the heavier and stronger beers. These beers are not meant be drunk like a standard Pilsner. You need to have some experience, and well, more taste when you drink these beers. They are often more seasonal beers, or beers that go with a nice meal. Just like with a good wine. Next time, try some more diversity and different styles of beer. Try smaller beer brands like Jopen Beer.
I usually drink 6 11% beers in one evening (Kasteel brown or Gulden Draak) they are not that bad. Hence my nickname (beer camel) Hertog Jan is pretty good and Brand has a really nice Porter.
