I know the Corkdork was created for wine-talk, but this counts 'cause it has a cork closure! And what other beers are more wine-like than Belgians?
As I drained my glass, I really began to wonder how on earth I ended up with this. I picked up this bottle for around $5.00 at my best local grocery store, Lunardi's and immediately got down to doing some research about where this came from. Lunardi's usually has a very good wine section, and this must have been presented to the wine buyer by a saavy distributor. I'm not sure if the wine buyer actually tasted this or whether it was dumb luck that he snatched it up.
Brasserie Dupont is a small organic farmhouse producer (6500 hectolitres) that is still making cheese and bread as well as this amazing brew.
The cloudy apearance in Belgian beer, and this one especially, comes from refermentation of yeasts in the bottle. At the end of the beer making process, yeast is added to the bottle to turn the residual sugars into alcohol and CO2. Beers made in this traditional manner often through a hefty sediment as well.
The flavor is a lot like Duvel, heady and yeasty, with a bitter edge. One beer website called the head "rocky" and I can only understand that as referring to the fact that the head is like stiffly-beaten egg whites and doesn't smooth out as you drink it. You are left with a craggy head while you drink it.
While Duvel is a more refined brew, this has a distinct farmhouse earthiness to it that I respect and enjoy. I'll be looking for more of it!
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