A good beer takes its time. The long storage makes the yellow bright lager, 'Original', a flavourful beer enjoyed with fine poured, white foam. With a mild hoppy note and its pleasant fresh spicy taste, it goes very well with salads, poultry, stews or with a hearty snack. Brewed according to our centuries-old brewing tradition on the Weihenstephan hill.

Cuvée des Jacobins is a 100% foeder beer, an undiluted lambic that has been matured in oak casks for 18 months. The beer has a robust character but a very attractive and sophisticated content with an aftertaste of vanilla, dried cherries and cocoa. This is a complex but very balanced sour beer. At the Brussels Beer Challenge 2013, the beer wins a silver medal and at the World Beer Awards 2014, Cuvee des Jacobins wins a gold medal.

Oude Geuze is the Champage equivalent in beers. Up to 50 wild yeasts ferment for 1 year in oak barrels resulting in a sour flat beer called Lambic. Blending different barrels then refermentation in bottle results in a sparkling Oude Geuze.

The distinctive fruity and bitter taste of Orval beer means it has become a genuine reference in the exclusive world of authentic Trappist beers. Orval beer is a high fermentation beer. The ageing process adds a fruity note, which strikes a subtle balance between the beer’s full-bodied yet complex flavour and bitterness. The beer was first brewed in 1931 and owes its unparalleled taste to the quality of the water, the hops and the yeast used. The brewery has selected very aromatic and unique hop varieties, which hark back to the first brewmaster of Orval, who hailed from Bavaria. The beer’s aromas are very pronounced while maintaining the right level of bitterness thanks to the English method of dry hopping. The various stages of fermentation – combined fermentation with the original yeast and with wild yeast, followed by fermentation in the bottle – mean the beer must age for some time and requires numerous quality controls.

Old Fart Ale This Ale is bronze in colour and is well balanced, carrying a fruity hoppiness with subtle hints of sweetness. The perfect gift for that older gentleman in your life!

It's no secret Germany has been making some of the best beer in the world for a very long time. The Best of Germany Mixed Pack brings together 12 incredible German beers that pair great with a plate of Bratwurst, or makes for an excellent tasting night with friends. Prost! Here's the line-up: 1. Paulaner Weissbier 500ml Bottle The No. 1 Hefe-Weissbier in Germany and one of the world's favourites. Naturally cloudy and shining silky gold in the glass under a really strong head of foam. At the first mouthful this Weissbier classic has a mild aroma of banana. Finer palates detect a trace of mango and pineapple and the balance between sweet and bitter. Beer connoisseurs appreciate the fine note of yeast and the mild but sparkling mix of aromas. It is a typical beergarden beer, which brings people together all over the world. ABV 5.5% 2. DAB Export 330ml Bottle This is the story of a beer style that was discovered more or less by accident: when we started exporting our award-winning brew to the farthest corners on the planet, we brewed a stronger, hoppier concentrate that was supposed to be diluted with water at its destination. We soon found out, that our beer wasn’t diluted after all, and consumers loved the extra hoppy flavours of our brew. This changed the beer world forever, and laid foundation to the world famous Dortmunder Export beer style we know today. A pale, bottom-fermented blond lager. It is a harmoniously balanced, crisp and easy-to-drink beer with pleasing notes of hops and malt. A very well-rounded taste profile with a soft and elegant texture. ABV 5% 3. Insel-Brauerei Baltic Stout 330ml Bottle Dark black colour with a good grainy smell. Promising aroma and the palate lives up to it as well with a full body and dark fruits throughout. ABV 7.5% 4. Erdinger Weissbier 500ml Bottle Every sip leaves you wanting more – our Erdinger wheat beer with its fine yeast is the crowning glory of traditional Bavarian brewing skills. The strength of this classic wheat beer lies in the harmonious balance it achieves between the various aromas. Gently spicy wheat and yeast aromas blend with mildly bitter hops. The invigorating carbon dioxide ensures its typical liveliness. A premium beer whose full-bodied yet elegant character leaves a lasting impression of ultimate Bavarian enjoyment. A truly unique wheat beer! Erdinger Weißbräu allows its top-fermenting speciality to mature in the bottle in the traditional manner, just like champagne. This wheat beer from Erding offers more than just sparkling refreshment – it gives a true taste of Bavaria. ABV 5.3% 5. Fruh Kolsch 500ml Can From the recipe by Peter Josef Früh of the family brewery, this top-fermented specialty beer features the best ingredients and is brewed according to the German Purity Law. A favorite beer of Cologne, which became one of the city's original. ABV 4.8% 6. Weltenburger Kloster Asam Bock 500ml Bottle A strong, dark Doppelbock that´s more than meets the eye. Malty-aromatic, sweet, pleasantly heavy, with an intensive fragrance and strong flavour; a world known specialty just like its baroque namesake, the brilliant painter and architect Cosmas Damian Asam. Rated 99 out of 100 on Ratebeer.com. ABV 6.9% 7. Weltenburger Kloster Barock Dunkel 500ml Bottle Brewed at the Weltenburger Monastery, which was founded in 45 AD, with the brewery established in 1050. This is the world's oldest dark beer. A true experience of flavour. Full bodied, with fine malt aromas. Slightly bitter with some sweetness, creamy and with the warm colours of amber, intensive flavour and fragrance. Brewed in the traditional monastic manner, it's regarded as one of the great beers. ABV 4.7% 8. Aktien Landbier Frankisch Dunkel 500ml Bottle A beer like his home. Original, honest and full of character, our Aktien Landbier presents itself. A dark, spicy beer can not be missed in Franconia with a hearty snack in a sociable atmosphere and thus characterises the uniqueness of the Franconian way of life. Our brewers are also committed to this tradition. The select selection of roasted special malt and light barley malt as well as the spring-fresh Fichtel mountain water give our Aktien Landbier its typical character and its fine malt aroma. ABV 5.3% 9. Schneider Weisse Meine Hopfen-Weisse 500ml Bottle Hoppy fireworks –- a new wheat beer style. Shiny golden, slightly reddish strong wheat doppelbock. An intense floral aroma of tropical fruit and pineapple. An exotic fruity sweetness meets with fireworks of hops. This extreme wheat beer shows how far wheat beer taste can go and pairs very well with spicy food. Meine Hopfenweisse shows how far wheat beer can go. This specialty was created by the crazy idea of a transatlantic brewing project between Garrettt Oliver (brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery, New York) and our brewmaster Hans-Peter Drexler. ABV 8.2% 10. Maisel's Weisse Kristall 500ml Bottle Crystal-clear brilliance and lively sparkling carbonic acid are the outstanding features of Maisel's Weisse Kristall and make it a wonderfully exuberant refreshment. Due to the special composition of sun-ripened wheat varieties and brighter barley malts, fermented and aged with our special white yeast, unfolds at first sip a balanced bouquet of different fruit flavours of ripe banana to a slight citrus note, which mixes at departure with the typical, slightly spicy wheat beer flavour. A predicate for a particular quality. ABV 5.1% 11. Bitburger Premium Pils 330ml Bottle The classic Bitburger - a mature and most agreeable beer - is brewed with the best of ingredients in the same traditional way it has been for many, many years. The result is delicately tart and pleasantly bitter - with a strong hop taste. ABV 4.8% 12. Warsteiner Premium 330ml Bottle Warsteiner Premium Verum is a pilsner style beer with a smooth, rich-full bodied taste wrapped in a thick creamy head and a refreshing hop finish with no aftertaste. Warsteiner quenches the beer lover's thirst for a clean, crisp, refreshing beer taste. ABV 4.8%

Monasteries are famous for their great brewing traditions throughout history, but none are more famous or more influential than those of the Trappists. These incredibly flavourful beers have influenced generations of brewers all over the world and are still brewed by the monks within the walls of their monasteries. They are sold only for the financial upkeep of the monasteries and for charitable causes. They are also incredibly delicious! Beers featured in this pack: 1. Chimay Blue The Chimay Blue Cap, baptized "Grande Reserve", is a dark Trappist beer with a powerful aroma, the complex flavour of which improves across the years. It was first brewed as a Christmas beer by the monks of Scourmont Abbey in 1956. This authentic Belgian beer, whose tinge of fresh yeast is associated with a light rosy flowery touch, is particularly pleasant. Its aroma, perceived as one enjoys it, only accents the delightful sensations revealed by the aroma, all revealing a light but agreeable caramelized note. ABV: 9.0% 2. Chimay Tripel Chimay Tripel, with its typical golden colour, its slightly hazy appearance and its fine head is especially characterised by its aroma which results from an agreeable combination of fresh hops and yeast. It is quite reminiscent of wine with its aromatic caresses of citrus & floral herbs. Impressions include that of toasted bread characters & the fruity taste of grapes. The finish is elegant giving a smattering of bitter hops combined with the bitter herbal aromas of citrus zest & cloves. There is no acidity, but an after-bitterness which melts in the mouth. This top fermented Trappist beer, refermented in the bottle, is not pasteurised. Ingredients: Water, malted barley, wheat starch, sugar, hop extract and yeast. ABV: 8% 3. Chimay Rouge Chimay Red is noted for its coppery colour which makes it particularly attractive. Topped with a creamy head, it gives off a light, fruity apricot aroma produced by the fermentation. The taste perceived in the mouth is a balance confirming the fruity nuances noticed in the fragrance. Its taste, which imparts a silky sensation to the tongue, is made refreshing by a light touch of bitterness. To the palate, the taster perceives a pleasant astringency which complements the flavour qualities of this beer very harmoniously. This top fermented Trappist beer, refermented in the bottle, is not pasteurised. ABV: 7% 4. Chimay Doree Brewed from very similar ingredients as the Première but paler and spiced with coriander. It was intended only to be consumed by the abbey monks or at the nearby inn Auberge de Poteaupré, which is associated with the abbey. The Dorée is now widely available to consumers and can is enjoyable as as a refreshing dessert beer, because it is lower in alcohol content than the rest of the Chimay family ales. ABV: 4.8% 5. Rochefort Trappistes 10 Dominant impressions of latte coffee with powerful chocolate aromas in the nose. The alcohol esters are enveloped with hints of autumn wood, citrus zest (orange, lemon) and freshly baked biscuits. The initial taste is sweetly sinful. Beer and chocolate trapped into one single glass, a liquid milky draught with a backbone of bitter malt. The alcohol warms the throat and, in the finish, you will pick up traces of cloves, citrus, orange and mocha. The heaviest of the Rochefort beers, the 10 is a quadrupel style beer and can be recognized by its blue label. ABV: 11.3% 6. Rochefort Trappistes 8 Originally called "Spécial," Rochefort 8 dates to the mid-1950s. The name comes from the original gravity in "Belgian degrees." Deep brown color; the flavor is vigorous and complex, with firm body to support the strength. The aroma has elusive notes of fresh fruit, spice, leather, and figs. ABV: 9.2% 7. Rochefort Trappistes 6 Rochefort 6 is reddish in colour and brewed only about once per year, representing approximately 1% of Rochefort's total beer production. “Rochefort 6” is the oldest Rochefort Trappist beer, and was brewed empirically until the end of the Second World War. It has a strong malt taste and is slightly bitter. ABV: 7.5% 8. Westmalle Tripel Westmalle Tripel is a clear Trappist beer, golden-yellow in colour, with amazingly fruity aromas of ripe banana and a lovely, subtle nose of hops. This full-mouthed beer offers finesse and elegance, with a mild taste and a creamy mouth feel, yielding bitter notes supported by fruit aromas. Enjoy the lingering, dry finish. The complex character of a Westmalle Tripel is derived from the slow brewing process and its re-fermentation in the bottle. ABV: 9.5% 9. Westmalle Dubbel Westmalle Dubbel is a dark, reddish-brown Trappist beer with a secondary fermentation in the bottle. The creamy head has the fragrance of special malt and leaves an attractive lace pattern in the glass. The flavour is rich and complex, herby and fruity with a fresh-bitter finish. It is a balanced quality beer with a soft feel in the mouth and a long, dry aftertaste. Since 1856 the monks have been brewing a dark Trappist beer. Westmalle Abbey, called Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van het Heilig Hart, belongs to the Cistercian Order, which was founded in the eleventh century. ABV: 7.0% 10. La Trappe Quadrupel The strongest of the special beers. Its flavour is full, mild and pleasantly bitter. Quadrupel is presently available in the autumn, is bottled by the year and is perfect company for those long winter evenings. ABV: 10% 11. La Trappe Blond Golden yellow Trappist ale with a white head and a rich flavour. The fruity and refreshing aromas go well with the sweet smell of malt and aromas reminiscent of spices. The result is an agreeable and tingling ale with a lightly sweet, smoothly bitter and malty taste. The aftertaste is characterised by a combination of sweetness and smooth bitterness. ABV: 6.5% 12. La Trappe Dubbel A dark-brown Trappist ale with an ivory-coloured head. A fruity aroma with warm tones of vanilla, caramel and roasted chocolate. A classic Trappist ale with a full malty, caramel-sweet taste and the subtle, sweet influence of dates, honey and dried fruits. The aftertaste is sweet and slightly bitter. ABV: 7.0%

Westmalle Tripel is a clear, golden yellow colour Trappist beer. It undergoes a secondary fermentation in the bottle. A complex beer with a fruity aroma and a nice nuanced hop scent. It is soft and creamy in the mouth, with a bitter touch carried by the fruity aroma. An exceptional beer, with a great deal of finesse and elegance. And with a splendid long aftertaste. This beer has been brewed in the Westmalle abbey since 1934. The current brewing process has remained unchanged until 1956.