Favourite Belgian-brewed American beer

Belgium brewers are beating the pants off the original America beers nowadays.

 

How 'bout the American beer the Belgians brew in the old Stag brewery in London*, the one named after a city in the Czech Republic - can't get more American than that.

* Still open, right? Despite having previously been on AB-InBev's chopping block for awhile?​

 

Evil Twin - Even more Jesus
Mikkeller - Beer Geek series.
De Molen is doing great stuff.

ect ect

 

None of which are Belgian !!!

 

De Struise Black Damnations

 

Ah touche, i was thinking European My bad. De Struise is doing a pretty damn good job as well then

 

Meh who needs geography when you are DRANKEN WHALEZ BRO!?!

 

Well first you would have to define what constitutes an 'American' beer because virtually all of our styles are interpretations, extensions, enhancements or bastardizations of Old World beers (which we should be quite proud of). Unless we are calling CDA, IDA or whatever you want to call it an American invention.

For the purposes of this thread, I will give a nod to highly hopped creations as being "American'. That being said, De Ranke XX bitter has been one of the best at the liberal use of hops. In general I think the Belgian attempts at creating highly hopped beers has been a colossal failure but XX Bitter stands out as a success in my book.

 

Probably St. Feuillen Bière de L'Amitié.

 

What beer style have Americans invented? None I can think of.

 

Ommegang Rare Vos for sure

 

If I had to choose, probably Charleroi Brouwers Belgian Chocolate California Common. Like you say, however, there are any number of hoppy strong/strong hoppy alternatives that would make the list.

 

We Invented Banquet beer I think...

 

Whoa, if taking something that has centuries of tradition behind it, and making it a flavorless mass produced swill that appeases the lowest common denomonator isn't an american invention I don't know what is. Now give me a coors lite and and some taco bell.

 

yea but even lager from bmc was invented in europe first is my point. meaning no beer I can think was but maybe steam was invented here.

 

There are none, and no one in this thread has even mentioned a beer that fits the definition IMHO. Except maybe jesskidden :-). A few have mentioned beers I've never heard of and aren't listed on this site.

 

The Germans were using plenty of rice in some of their brews before it became illegal in the early 20th century.

 

I'm going to try to hijack this thread and propose that, IMHO, to qualify as a "Belgian-brewed American beer" it has to be brewed in Belgium by a Belgian owned brewery, and the style of the beer must be listed under "American Ales" or "American Lagers" on this site, specifically:

I'm on the fence about "Belgian IPA." I think maybe some of these (clearly not all) could be considered American, but it's listed as Belgian on this site. I don't think De Ranke XX Bitter qualifies as it isn't even brewed with American hops, and Houblon Chouffe is really just a Belgian Tripel with American hops added at the end.

Again, none of the beers mentioned so far seem to fit, just IMHO. I like the thread though, can you tell?