Duvel

About the beer

Source: Moortgat Brewery, Breendonk, Beelgium
            (a Flemish family-controlled brewery founded in 1871)

Style:    Golden Ale, re-fermented in the bottle

Strength: 8.5% ABV

Hops:   Saaz-Saaz and Styrian Golding

Serving: Served in tulip-shaped Duvel glass at 6 degrees Celsius

Checked with Duvel's website, and it is quite amazing just to watch its introduction of the "90 days of brewing" for this delicate bottle of beer. Water drawn from the brewery's 60m-deep well.  6 days of first fermentation, followed by 20 days of first maturation.  Beer is bottled after that, and secondary fermentation goes on 2 weeks in the brewery's warm cellar and then   6 weeks in the cold cellar.  You can see how the beer bottle plays such an important role as where the brewing actually takes place.


Tasting: at Fatt's Place
         330ml bottle, in Duvel-branded glass(tulip-shaped,  almost like a brandy balloon)

Rating (out of 10): 8

Notes: First of all, the beer tastes lovely (that is the whole point of drinking): refreshing on the one hand while still complicated and refined on the other hand.  Just slightly bitter in aftertaste. Slightly hoppy (in my over-demanding standard).

       I usually found bartenders in HK not taking seriously in pouring beer into a glass (there is a video in Duvel's website on how to create those thick foam), as you could in the picture, the head just collapsed.