Brouette de Bières
Zwijntje - Zwyntje
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:
- Zwijntje
- Kind:
- Amber
- Alcohol content:
- 8%
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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.
Abbey beer
Beer that uses the name of an abbey that exists or existed in the past.
Recipe wasn't necessarily nor created by monks neither brewed within the abbey formerly.
Triple malting
Beer brewed with a quantity of malt triple as usual. This supplement gives a more pronounced flavor and stronger aromas. As malt provides sugar for the fermentation, triple malted beers have a high alcohol content.
As there is no official definition for a "triple" beer, the preceding explanation is mostly used in Belgium but is not approved unanimously.
Another explanation is that triple means triple fermentation : a primary fermentation depending on the recipe of the beer, a second during ageing and finally a third in 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
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Alcohol abuse is harmful