STRONG SAISON 8.5% ABV
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Belgian Family Owned
Suitable for Cellaring
FORMATS
Case, 12 x 75 cl (25.4 fl oz), cork finished
Keg, 20 liter
One of Belgium’s most historically significant castles, the Château de Belœil (with gardens once more handsome than all in Europe save Versailles) is a few miles from the Dupont brewery. It merits a visit next time you are in Hainaut. lt once housed a brewery on site and made a beer called Saison Roland. Today Dupont brews a special beer for the château. It is the smallest production beer in the Dupont portfolio, but it is as refined and as regal as the Ligne family château that inspired it.
Belœil has a rich white meringue head and a beautiful hazy amber red color. The funky Dupont yeast announces itself but is laced with herbs, biscuit, nectarine, blood orange and a mineral edge. The warming finish has notes of wood and spice, toasted sesame, and green apple. It combines the best of a dry brown ale and a strong Saison.
*Winner of the “Battle of the Belgians” in New York City at Jimmy’s 43, Belœil outscored all Belgian- and U.S.-made Belgian-style beers in the contest of more than seventy (!) contenders.
Belœil (literally “beautiful eye”) is one of the largest and most beautiful castles in Belgium. It was founded in the 13th century as a medieval fortress, and was progressively transformed into a residential palace in the 17th and 18th centuries. Since 1394, the castle has belonged to the princes of Ligne, one of Belgium’s highest-ranking noble families. About 1788 the Prince was invited to place himself at the head of the Belgian Revolutionary movement, but declined with great courtesy saying that “he never revolted in winter.” www.1911encyclopedia.org
