Duvel

The Duvel is a fair Bière of high Fermentation brewed by the brewery Moortgat in Belgium. It accounts for 85% of the production of the brewery, which also produces the Maredsous. It is a beer of the type triple, whose alcohol content is of 8,5% in volume. The label recommends to be used it for a temperature ranging between 6 and 10°C (even if the beer amateurs of high fermentation rather drink those at temperature of cellar, between 12 and 14°C). It produces a particularly rich foam collar, and the brewery made special glass to emphasize this last.

History

Towards 1918, Albert Moortgat decided to manufacture a beer of the name of Victory-Ale (translation = English beer of the Victoire) at the end of the First World War.
In 1923, one of his/her Flemish friends qualifies one day the Victory-Ale of nen echten duvel (devil of beer in Flemish language) and beer is renamed blow Duvel , which inspired by many customers and competitors, of which Belgian beers Judas, Satan, Lucifer, and the French beers Belzébuth, and Bière of the Demon.
1963 the Duvel beer is manufactured and marketed by the brewery Moortgat, with Breendonk, in Belgium with 10km in the north of Brussels.

2007 Since this autumn, Duvel brews for the first time of its history an alternative of its famous beer, Duvel Triple Hop. This version of one of Belgian beers with high fermentation the most crowned risk to become an object of collection very coveted. Taking into account its manufacturing process delicate and invaluable ingredients used, this beer will be produced only of limited number: only one tank of 165 hectolitres, is 22.000 bottles of 75 Cl! (source: Press release)

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