Today isn’t just Tuesday. It’s Belgian National Day, the sort of glorious calendar quirk that inspires monks to raise chalices, brass bands to spill into cobblestone squares, and Americans to ask, “Wait… is Belgium the one with waffles, chocolate, or beer?” The answer, thankfully, remains all of the above.

On July 21, 1831, Prince Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg swore allegiance to Belgium’s newly adopted constitution and became King Leopold I, giving the young nation its first monarch and another excellent reason to celebrate. Nearly two centuries later, Belgians still mark the day with parades, fireworks, music, and the easy confidence of a country that knows few places have woven brewing so deeply into everyday life.

At Peaks & Pints, we’re honoring that remarkable legacy the best way we know how: with a Belgian National Day Flight poured open to close. From monastery-born Trappist ales and spontaneously fermented lambics to Flanders reds and enduring Belgian classics, every glass reveals another chapter in the story of a nation that somehow transformed water, grain, hops, yeast, and time into liquid art. Raise a toast to Belgium—a place where brewing has never merely been a craft, but a centuries-long act of faith, patience, imagination, and the delightful certainty that beer can make the world feel just a little more beautiful.

Peaks & Pints 2026 Belgian National Day Flight

Lindemans Strawberry

4.2% ABV | Strawberry Lambic | Vlezenbeek, Belgium

Summer occasionally disguises itself as a beer, arriving in a shimmering ruby-pink glow that smells like a basket of just-picked strawberries still warm from the afternoon sun. Beneath the lush fruit waits the unmistakable heartbeat of Lindemans‘ Belgian lambic—soft wheat, gentle wild fermentation, a flicker of earthy funk, and a bright, mouthwatering tartness that keeps every sip dancing instead of tumbling into candy-like sweetness. It’s playful without becoming precious, the sort of pour that somehow feels equally at home beside a slice of cheesecake or beneath a cathedral ceiling where centuries of brewing wisdom still seem to linger in the air.

Rodenbach Classic

5.2% ABV | Flanders Red Ale | Roeselare, Belgium

There is always one beer that quietly gathers a devoted following, the bottle seasoned drinkers point toward with a knowing smile and first-timers approach with equal parts curiosity and suspicion. Meet Rodenbach Classic. Ruby-brown beneath a fleeting ivory crown, it unfolds in bright layers of tart cherry, red currant, crisp apple, caramel, and whispers of oak drawn from towering foeders where time performs its slow, invisible alchemy. The sweet-and-sour balance feels almost effortless, finishing dry, lively, and endlessly inviting. It drinks less like an ale than a graceful meeting between beer and Burgundy, a harmony Belgium has been refining for generations. Classic.

Orval Trappist Ale

6.2% ABV | Trappist Pale Ale | Villers-devant-Orval, Belgium

Some beers ask for your attention. Orval earns your trust. Brilliant amber beneath a towering ivory crown, it opens with flashes of citrus peel, fresh herbs, wildflowers, and a restrained whisper of dry hops before drifting into peppery spice, rustic earth, and the unmistakable, ever-changing character of Brettanomyces. Every bottle keeps evolving long after it leaves the abbey, growing drier, deeper, and just a little more enigmatic with age. It’s less a beer than a living monastery in a glass, reminding you that patience can be every bit as intoxicating as alcohol.

Westmalle Dubbel

7% ABV | Trappist Dubbel | Westmalle, Belgium

Long before “dubbel” became a style, it was simply an idea perfected behind monastery walls. Mahogany catches flashes of ruby while aromas of warm caramel, fresh-baked brown bread, figs, raisins, and a flicker of clove rise from the glass like evening prayers carried on cool air. Richness arrives first but never overstays its welcome; lively carbonation and a remarkably dry finish sweep the palate clean, inviting another thoughtful sip. Westmalle Dubbel carries nearly two centuries of brewing wisdom with the effortless confidence of something that has never needed to impress anyone.

Rochefort 6

7.5% ABV | Trappist Dubbel | Rochefort, Belgium

Not every monastery feels compelled to ring the bell. Some simply open the cellar door. Chestnut-brown with flashes of garnet beneath a creamy tan crown, Rochefort 6 glides across the palate with warm brown bread, dried figs, toasted caramel, orchard fruit, and a gentle flourish of spice that appears almost by surprise. The body is generous without becoming weighty, finishing with an earthy dryness that lingers like the final note of a choir fading into evening. It’s the kind of beer that doesn’t ask for contemplation so much as quietly reward it, revealing another small grace every time the glass returns to your lips.

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