Bière de Miel
— 3/5. Light, refreshing and floral. A beer full of the joys of spring.”
By Brasserie Dupont. 8% ABV, serve at 12°
Brasserie Dupont, from the little village of Tourpes near Tournai, is pretty well-known here in Belgium thanks to the broad distribution of their popular copper kettle brews Moinette and Saison Dupont.
Dupont has been producing Bière de Miel (“honey beer”) as an organic product since 1997, having rediscovered the recipe after about 75 years in abeyance.
The brew, served in irritatingly small bottles or the 75cl Standard, is full of springtime flavours, in amongst which the honey is only one.
Indeed the strongest note in there for me is orange blossom. Refreshing, light and pleasantly floral.
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