Jan , Gulden Draak.

Gulden Draak is one of Gent Classics, it is an excellent dark beer, with 10.5 % alcohol. It has a sweet caramel flavour that will definetly amuse anyone that enjoys good beer. If you come to Ghent and you walk around in the city center, you will see a high tower in Belfry which has a golden dragon on the top. This beer owes its name to this dragon.

"The legend says the golden dragon first featured on the prow of the ship with which the Norwegian king Sigrid Magnusson left on a crusade in 1111. He offered the statue to the emperor of Constantinople (the current Istanbul) to put it on the cupola of the Aya Sophia. Some hundred years later, the Flemish count Baldwin IX had the showpiece transported to our regions. Here, the Norwegian dragon ended up in the hands of Brugges. After the battle on the field of Beverhout in 1382, the inhabitants of Ghent took the dragon as war booty and put it on top of their Belfry. In the Belfry all communal charters were kept. The dragon had to protect these documents" (taken from http://guldendraak.be/en/gulden-draak-0 ).

The second beer of the night was Jan Van Oudenaarde, this one is a blond beer, it is quite new, it seems it came to enlarge the list of belgium beers only in 2012! , so this is really new stuff. This beer has 8 % of alcohol It has a sparkling taste that is not to strong to start a night with. I think this one is not the best beer you can get, but if you try it once , it will enrich your beer list!.