This beer used to be known as Petrus Aged Red but has recently undergone a revamp.
It is made from a blend of a high fermentation double brown ale mixed with 15% of the Petrus Aged Pale (a delicious 100% foeder beer aged for 24 months in large oak barrels). The beer then has fresh cherries added for a further aging period.
This all results in a very attractive dark red beer with a massive aroma of cherries. As you take in the aroma more, you’ll also pick up oak, marzipan and a soft sour note.
These types of beers are a great introduction to Belgian sours, they are colloquially known as ‘sweet and sours’. There is a definite early sweetness that invites you in before the sourness kicks in about half way through.
It isn’t an aggressive sourness, rather quite gentle with an associated tartness from the cherries. The sweetness carries through to the end for a pretty smooth, lightly sour and tart lingering aftertaste.
This Belgian Blond is named after one of the ascents of the Tour De Flandres
This beer is the Petrus Tripel, with Amarillo and Cascade added, plus 15% foederbier
Voted World's Best Wood Aged Beer 2012 and 2013 and World Beer Awards
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A 'double brown' beer from the family brewery Batik-De Brabandere
A delicious blend of two Petrus beers used to create this traditional Flanders Red ale
A typical Belgian tripel from one of Belgium's Traditional Family Brewers
