All the way from the little Belgium town of Buggenhout comes award winning beer, Triple Karmeliet brewed by the seventh-generation Flemish family-brewery of Bosteels.

The recipe, which was first brewed in 1997, was inspired by a formula dating from 1679 that originates from the former Carmelite Monastery in Dendermonde. This Abbey style beer uses a blend of three grains - wheat, oats and barley.

Triple Karmeliet is a very refined and complex golden-bronze ale with an especially creamy head. These characteristics are a result of the choice of three grains, but also from the subtle use of Styrian hops and the house yeast which imparts a banana and vanilla profile. On the palate the lightness and freshness of the wheat is combined with the creaminess of oats over a spicy lemon, almost quinine dryness.