Het Anker produces a beer called Gouden Carolus Cuvee Van Der Keizer Blauw, which is currently available across much of Canada. It is brewed every Feb. 24 to commemorate the birth of Charles V.

Gouden Carolus Easter Beer Where Spotted: ChurchKey, 1337 14th St. NW Price: $5/4 ounce pour Money Well Ghent: This ruby-brown beer is reason enough to investigate dark Belgian beers. Anise is the ...

ABV: 10.5% The Beer: Gouden Carolus Christmas ticks all the Belgian Christmas Ale boxes. Obviously, it’s got Christmas in the name — an unsubtle wink to the beer style’s Anglo-Saxon origins.

This truly world-class beer from the Het Anker Brewery is an imperial version of its classic Gouden Carolus dark ale. The commemorative brew weighs in at 11 percent alcohol by volume and pours a ...

Of course, it makes sense when you find out the nation’s best whisky is born from a mash of Gouden Carolus’s Tripel beer—aka “Golden Charles” named after the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.