Deus Brut des Flandres

Yes, I of course brought some beer bottles from my last stay in Brussels back home, but this one was already waiting for me in the cellar.

It is a Deus, the bottle looks more like a Champagne one, obviously you have to use champagne flutes, not an "ordinary" beer glass :-)







The brewing method is still quite young, probably an invention from last century, when someone wanted to combine Belgian brewing art with French Champagne savoir vivre.

The sparkling beer requires a production time of many months. Made of barley, it is brewed in Belgium and refined in France using an ancestal technique, including the "riddling" and yeast removal. In total, there are three fermentation processes.

It is indeed, having tasted it, a unique mix between Champagne and beer with a very fuzzy note, which I normally don't like when drinking. The smell and the taste in the mouth ist quite the same: an interesting mix of yeast and dry oranges. When it goes down, the yeasty taste disappears and the sunny oranges remain long in your mouth and nose.

In total, very interesting indeed, but I would say that the sparkling note, which is probably one of the other main characters of this beer, is not my style.