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Westmalle Dubbel - Westmalle Double

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.

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Trademark:: Westmalle
Kind:: Brown
Alcohol content:: 7%

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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