Smaak van Echt 2010 announced

De Smaak van Echt 2010

Following the success of a similar initiative last year, four Dutch independent family brewers have worked together again to launch De Smaak van Echt 2010 (The Real Taste), a gift pack featuring four new and exclusive one-off beers, all warm fermented and unpasteurised.

Alfa of Schinnen, Limburg, has contributed Alfa Echt 2010 (5.5%), a lightly cloudy amber beer with a touch of caramel and herbal hop bitterness. Budels Echt 2010 (5%), from Budel in Noord-Brabant, is a German-style wheat beer with a genuine German yeast. From Gulpen in Limburg comes Gulpener Echt 2010 (5.5%), an unfiltered spelt beer with a slight fruity sourness. Finally Lindeboon, of Neer, Limburg, offers Lindeboom Echt 2010 (5.5%), a pure malt finely hopped light blond.

All the beers are available only in the packs, not individually, with each pack containing three 300ml bottles of each beer, a special branded tasting glass, four beermats and an information booklet. They can be ordered from the participating brewers from the end of May.