Brouette de Bières
Blanche des Plateaux
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:
- Blanche des Plateaux
- Kind:
- White
- Alcohol content:
- 4.8%
Friends
White beer
These are top fermented and non filtered beers that contain non malted wheat. These specificities give them their slightly turbid and milky aspect .
Nowadays, they usually contain spices such as orange barks, coriander or pepper.
Very refreshing and thirst-quenching, they will be very appreciated during a warm afternoon.
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
- Corn malt
- Hop
- Yeast
- Stored (for ageing) during 3 weeks
- Bottom fermentation
- Unfiltered
- Unpasteurized
- "Light" foam
- Lager
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.
"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
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