In Reply To #5 Its funny you say. Your username, you favor corona? My last trip to US, I had both. La Fin du Monde almost as good as the Belgian Strongs here. Corona, bleh, taste like pee

In Reply To #6 lambic, I agree. La Fin du Monde is extremely good, as is most of Unibroue's line.

It's just a name... La Fin Du Monde tasted more like wine than beer. If that's your thing, no problem but hard to classify that winey shit a beer.

In Reply To #8 Hmmm, if you find that hard to classify as beer, then there goes a lot of beer I ever tried. It's just strong, that's all.

In Reply To #8 Well, everyone's palate is different, but winey seems to be a bit of a stretch for La Fin Du Monde. Strong, yes, but that's about all it has in common with wine IMO.

In Reply To #10 Their website even uses the word "wine" to describe the beer... I've actually seen that description a few times.

Champagne is a better word. This is from the website. "With its champagne-like effervescence, it has a vigourous presence in the mouth, which accentuates its strong personality. Slightly tart, with the balanced flavours of wild spices, malt and hops, it belongs to the class of great Trappist beers and, in this regard, is a North American first. At meals, it can replace white or red wines and enhances the flavour of most dishes."

In Reply To #12 "With its champagne-like effervescence" is just talking about the carbonation, but plenty of beers can be described like that. And about replacing white or red wines, well that you could say about almost any beer as well. I think the whole purpose of that description is to make it appeal to those who otherwise wouldn't drink beer or who think wine is superior to beer.

In Reply To #13 Right, the wine comparison is just saying that it goes well with a meal, as does a white or red wine. I don't think they mean that it's tastes like a wine, just that it's a hearty meal companion.

I believe it's described that way just to encourage conversion from wine to beer. I drank some Corsendonk this weekend which could easily have been described as being wine-like in some characteristics, the least of which was a word pointed out to me in it's own label, "port" not porter, port. As in port wine. And I suppose it's the first beer I have had which was capped with a cork. Upon drinking it, however, it is no doubt a beer.