Brouette de Bières
Bellegems Bruin
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:
- Bellegem's
- Kind:
- Brown
- Alcohol content:
- 5.5%
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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.
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".
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.
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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.
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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
Beer brewed carefully, to be consumed with care