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Banner for the Toer de Geuze 2011 on display at 3 Fonteinen. Snobbery aside, there are some potentially defensible grounds on which to build a case that making wine is a higher field of human endeavour than making beer. Winemakers squeeze the maximum complexity and variety from the minimum of means. From New World varietal superplonk [...] Beer sellers: Beermania ABV: 6% 3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek Traditional spontaneously fermented lambic beer doesn’t reach the consumer without being subjected to additional processes of maturation, blending and/or steeping with fruit to make it palatable. Though today’s better known lambic breweries generally carry out such processes themselves, there are opportunities for a third, non-brewing, [...] ABV: 6.5% De Keersmaeker Mort Subite Oude Kriek This is an expanded review of a beer that featured as a fruit beer on the bottled beer review page in the August 2010 issue of BEER magazine, sent free every quarter to CAMRA members, who can also view it online. The magazine is also available in [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version first appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 5% Brouwerij Girardin For the style this is easy drinking but top quality from one of the most respected lambic breweries, a cherry-red beer with a creamy, woody and tannic aroma rich and oily with natural cherry skin perfume. A spicily [...] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 5% Girardin Framboise This traditional lambic brewery in the heart of the Pajottenland, founded in 1882, is especially famed for its unfiltered black label gueuze. Its fruit beers are filtered but far from the artificially sweetened products of some [...] Originally published in What’s Brewing August 2004 Origin: Anderlecht, Brussels, Belgium Cantillon Rosé de Gambrinus The lambic beers of the area in and around Brussels are the result of the ancient technique of “spontaneous” fermentation. Lambic brewers simply leave the wort exposed to the air overnight in a specially vented room [...] |
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