Brouette de Bières
Timmermans Pêche
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:
- Timmermans
- Kind:
- Blond
- Alcohol content:
- 4%
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.
Spontaneous fermentation
The fermentation is called "spontaneous" because the brewer doesn't add any yeast. Beer is stored in the open air and yeasts from the environment naturally ferment the beer. These yeasts only live in the Senne valley and Payottenland, consequently these country beers are brewed only in the area around Brussels.
Beers brewed this way, that can be identified thanks to their acid taste, are called "lambic".
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
- Wheat
- Peaches juice (14%)
- Sugar
- Sweetener
- Antioxidant: L-ascorbic acid
"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 :-)
Lambic
Brewed only in the area around Brussels, Lambic is a beer fermented spontaneously by wild yeasts present in the environment. Lambic is commonly used as a base ingredient to brew fruity beers.
Glossary of avalaible pictograms
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