Brouette de Bières
Bourganel Verveine Velay
France
With a strong brewing tradition in the Northern and Eastern regions, France is the 5th european brewer country. 300 different beers can be found on the french territory.
However, beer is not really part of consumption patterns. Indeed an inhabitant drinks 33.7l per year (that is 2 33cl bottles per week).
- Trademark:
- Bourganel
- Kind:
- Blond
- Alcohol content:
- 5%
Friends
Blond beer
The most spreaded beer, recognizable thanks to its gilded color, color of the moonlight or color of freshly cut stubbles.
The range extends from bitter beers with a low alcohol content to sweeter beers with a much more important alcohol content.
Bottom fermentation
Fermented at a temperature between 39°F and 54°F, bottom fermented beers are usually less fruity and have a lower alcohol content than top fermented ones. Moreover, they often contain more carbon dioxide and should be drunk at a lower temperature.
This type of fermentation spread during the 19th century. It became famous because of a beer brewed in the city of Pilsen in Czech Republic. Since this time, the name of the city has been transmitted to bottom fermented beers that are usually called "Pils".
Not refermented in the bottle
After main fermentation, these beers are bottled and ready to be drunk. This way, absence of refermentation allows a shorter brewing process.
Glossary of avalaible pictograms
Single malting
Beer brewed with an usual quantity of malt. As malt provides sugar for the fermentation, single malted beers usually have a medium or low alcohol content.
Glossary of avalaible pictogramsIngredients
- Water
- Barley malt
- Hop
- Flavours
- Verbena
- Yeast
- Brewed since 2008
- Bottom fermentation
- Filtered
- Pasteurized
- "Light" foam
- Lager
Pasteurized
Invented by Louis Pasteur in 1856, pasteurization consists in heating the beer to a high temperature (158°F approximately). Often beer is pasteurized after being bottled, in such a case bottles are heated to pasteurization temperature during several minutes.
By destroying yeasts and micro-organisms in the beer, this process ensures the stability and conservation of the beer.
"Light" foam
Beer with a light foam. These beers should be served in a glass quite tall in order to obtain a beautiful collar, and with a head thiner than the body to help the foam to form.
Tip: serve a first part of the beer and begin to enjoy. Then serve the rest of the beer to obtain some foam again.
As the foam is light, thirsty people can drink this beer from the bottle :-)
Beer on sale: click on bottles to add them into your wheelbarrow
Brouette de Bières®, BP 95, 59163 Condé sur l'Escaut (France) - SARL company with a 9000 ¤ capital - RNCS Valenciennes 493 819 684
CNIL registration number 1194297 - Selling beer to minors is forbidden
Drink alcohol sensibly and in moderation