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A Chimay tripel beer with its branded glass. Beer in Belgium includes pale ales, lambics, Flemish red ales, sour brown ales, strong ales and stouts.In 2018, there were 304 breweries in Belgium, [1] [2] [3] including international companies, such as AB InBev, and traditional breweries, such as Trappist monasteries. [4]
The name of the beer is meant to honour Duchess Mary of Burgundy, the only daughter of Charles the Bold, who was born in Brussels in 1457 and died in a horse riding accident in 1482. Like all Flemish red ales, Duchesse de Bourgogne has a characteristically sour, fruity flavour similar to that of lambic beers.
Belgium’s beer culture is renowned worldwide. There are household brands from the world’s largest brewing company, Anheuser-Busch InBev, such as Stella Artois, Hoegaarden, and Leffe. There are ...
Jupiler (French:, Flemish: [ˈʑypilɛr] or [ʑypiˈleː]) is a Belgian beer introduced in 1966, now brewed by Anheuser–Busch InBev at Piedboeuf Brewery in the Jupille-sur-Meuse neighbourhood of Liège. Jupiler is the highest selling beer in Belgium, with around 40 percent share by volume. [1]
Scourmont Abbey in Chimay, Belgium. The brewery was founded inside Scourmont Abbey, in the Belgian municipality of Chimay in 1862. [1]The brewery produces four ales as well as a patersbier for the monks themselves which is occasionally sold as Chimay Gold; they are known as Trappist beers because they are made in a Trappist monastery.
As a result Alken-Maes brews the beer for the Belgian market, while Carlsberg is responsible for the marketing outside Belgium of the beers that it brews under the Grimbergen name at its Kronenbourg Brewery located in France. [3] [4] In the Netherlands, Grolsch Brewery is responsible for the marketing of Grimbergen that is brewed by Alken-Maes. [5]
Four varieties of spontaneous fermentation beers containing 5.5% abv are produced: Belle-Vue Gueuze, Kriek, Kriek Extra and Raspberry. [1] It is the best-known brand of Belgian fruit beer though its sweet taste is far from representing that of traditional sour lambics. Belle-Vue's sole traditional product, Selection Lambic, is produced in very ...
Westvleteren visitor's center. Westvleteren (Dutch: Brouwerij Westvleteren) is a brewery founded in 1838 at the Trappist Abbey of Saint Sixtus in Vleteren, Belgium.The brewery brews three traditional Trappist beers in small quantities to support the operations and philanthropic causes of the abbey.