Brouette de Bières
Affligem Dubbel
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:
- Affligem
- Kind:
- Brown
- Alcohol content:
- 6.8%
Brown beer
Prepared with strongly roasted malt, they are recognizable thanks to their dark color.
Usually, these are the strongest beers. Some of them, because of the roasted malt, have a slightly acidulous taste.
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.
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
Certified abbey beer
Beer which recipe was created by monks and was formerly brewed within the abbey.
Nowadays, the beer is sold under license by a third brewery.
Sometimes, the abbey, owner of the recipe, doesn't accomodate a religious community anymore.
Double malting
Beer brewed with a malt quantity double as usual. As malt provides sugar for the fermentation, double malted beers contain a little more alcohol and have a sweeter flavor that the ones with a single quantity of malt. Even if there is no obligation, double malted beers are used to be brown.
As there is no official definition for a "double" beer, the preceding explanation is mostly used in Belgium but is not approved unanimously.
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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