Flemish Brown - 弗兰德棕啤酒

Also known as the old browns ("Oud bruin"), and in French "Rouges Flamands") or "Flemish Reds", these beers also belong to a category of which Belgium is the exclusive world home. What's more, their region of production is limited to Flanders. Like the Lambics, they too use spontaneous fermentation and are aged in wooden casks (which impart to them a good deal of their character). But the peculiarity of these beers, rather than their typical colour, is the balancing of top fermentation and spontaneous fermentation. They are distinguished by their bitter sweet (but not acid) taste and their thirst-quenching properties.

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Rodenbach: 5%

A beer of mixed fermentation (top and spontaneous), brown and aged in oak barrels for two years. The head is short lived, the nose is fresh and fruity. It presents a neat acidity that is prolonged in a roasting flavour, joined by a note of passion fruit, iron and oak. The finish is a little bitter and piquant.