Brouette de Bières
Orval - Orval Amber
Belgium
Often known as the country of beer, Belgium offers to beer lovers an impressive variety of products. At least 700 beers can be found.
In spite of the variety of local beers, belgian people are quite sober. Indeed they drink "only" 93l per inhabitant and per year (that is 5 to 6 33cl bottles per week).
Belgium is famous because of its top fermented beers and also its spontaneous fermented beers brewed only in the area around Brussels.
- Trademark:
- Orval
- Kind:
- Amber
- Alcohol content:
- 6.2%
Amber beer
Prepared with slightly roasted malt, an amber beer is recognizable thanks to its "caramel" or "amber" color. It is sweeter and contains more alcohol.
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Top fermentation
Fermented at a temperature between 59°F and 79°F, top fermented beers are famous because of their more complex flavours. Moreover, they often have a higher alcohol content (depending on the malt quantity) than bottom fermented ones.
This fermentation type was originally the most spread one, but since this time bottom fermented beers have flooded the market. Mainly brewed by artisanal breweries, top fermented beers are the ones prefered by beer lovers.
Refermented in the bottle
Refermentation in the bottle is due to the addition of yeasts, and sometimes sugar, in the beer while bottling. Then beer is stored in a hot (68°F to 77°F) fermentation room for a few weeks before being sold.
Once begun, refermentation goes on during the conservation of the beer. Consequently taste and alcohol content evolve all along its ageing.
Because of the presence of yeast, you're likely to see a little sediment at the bottom of the bottle and beer can be a bit cloudy.
Trappist beer
Very restricted label, only 7 breweries can put it on their bottles.
To be recognized as trappist, the beer must be brewed within a trappist abbey under supervision and responsibility of monks. Moreover, this label means that most of the benefits are devoted to charities.
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
- Malt
- Hop
- Yeast
- Brewed since 1931
- Stored (for ageing) during 4 weeks
- Top fermentation
- Centrifuged
- Unpasteurized
- Ale
Unpasteurized
Pasteurization consists in destroying micro-organisms and yeasts in the beer in order to ensure its stability and conservation.
Beers aren't always pasteurized. For instance, this is the case for beers refermented in the bottle. In this case, addition of yeasts when bottling doesn't allow such a process.
Ale
Top fermented beers (fermented at a temperature between 59°F and 79°F) which alcohol content is from low to medium.
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Characteristics
- Incline glass to serve
- To be stored in a dry environment sheltered from light, and at a temperature between 12°C and 14°C (Same temperature to enjoy it)
- Triple fermentation : first, second in ageing tank, third in the bottle
- Used hops: Hallertau and Styrie
- Can be stored 5 years for ageing
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
Alcohol abuse is harmful