Beer "Mort Subite" Kriek Lambic, 250 ml
Tasting Notes
Beer thick dark red color.
Slim, well-balanced, beverage, slightly sweet, refreshing taste of beer filled with tones of red fruits and berries, apple juice, a little tartness of lemon and grape. The finish is dry, with hints of wood nuances of caramel and fruit.
The aroma of beer felt notes of wood, light sour cherries, cranberries, balsamic.
Beer goes well with cheese, meat cooked on the grill.
Interesting Facts
"Rodenbach" Grand Cru - beer for connoisseurs that famous beer critic Michael Jackson is rightly called the "world classics" and "Burgundy of Belgium." Beer "Rodenbach" Grand Cru is created from one-third of young beer and two-thirds of the beer, matured in oak barrels for two years. As a result of a very complex and harmonious beer, like a fine wine, with a rich bouquet, sweet-sour taste and a very long finish.
In the process of beer "Rodenbach" Grand Cru goes through two stages of fermentation. The first stage of fermentation is unique because yeast fermentation upper combined with lactic flora. Re-fermentation in oak barrels filled with a bunch of beer rich fruity notes. The barrels used for aging, made at the brewery on the method used since 1821. For their manufacture is taken very good wood without knots, do not apply nails and screws, only iron rings. Beer is recommended to serve chilled to 6-8 ° C.
Rodenbach family was engaged in brewing in 1821. His style brewery is obliged to Eugene Rodenbach that before you start to work in the family business, was in the South of England, where he practiced in the brewing and got a deep knowledge of the London-style Porter deliberate "acidification" beer by its maturation in wooden barrels. Eugene has adopted the process of aging wine in oak barrels in order to improve the quality and "acidification" beer. Thus, Eugene became the founder of the current path of Rodenbach brewery. Until 1998 belonged to the family brewery Robendah.
In 1998 the decision was made, preserving their identity, go to the brewery in the management of Palm, which deals with "Rodenbach" as a very important cultural project to preserve the unique Belgian mixed type of fermentation for future generations.
Producer's description
At the end of the First World War it gained rapid popularity of Pilsner, Czech style of brewing. It is an exceptional brewery Alken brewed pilsner, what really hurts the family Mace.
In 1988, after the merger of breweries Mace and alkenes, the company was founded Alken-Maes. The company produces more than 30 varieties of beer, the main ones being Cristal and Pilsner Maes. In 2008 the company became part of the HEINEKEN Company.