There are few beer styles that Lost Abbey/Port Brewing Cofounder and Director of Brewing Operations Tomme Arthur doesn’t excel at brewing. With medals under his belt for everything from double IPAs to dry stouts to wild and sour beers, he’s established a reputation as a brewer’s brewer—building on tradition while fearlessly disregarding the constraints of beer “style.”
“In my mind there’s no greater way to make great flavorful beers than with the use of Belgian yeast, and that tradition of herbs and spices and ‘anything goes’,” says Arthur. “It’s very liberating in that way—[Belgian brewers] basically want to make very flavorful beer, and damn what you call it. They’ve imagined a wide spectrum of beers and flavors given their lack of pretense for stylistic bents, and I think that’s pretty cool.”
In that spirit, Arthur shared a six-pack that celebrates that Belgian disregard for the strictures of style.