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BREW REVUE: Urthel Saisonnière
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BREW REVUE: Urthel Saisonnière
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Formerly brewed in Belgium, the Urthel range of beers is brewed by native Belgian Hildegard van Ostaden at Koningshoeven (formerly La Trappe), the only Trappist monastery in the Netherlands brewing beer for commercial distribution. Urthel's small, focused range includes Samaranth (a quadruppel), Vlamese Bock (a Flemish dark ale), a golden Tripel and the cheesy, funky IPA Hop-It.
One quality all of Urthel's brews have in common is serious boozy bang â Hop-It is 9.5 percent ABV, Samaranth 11.5. Perhaps sensing a need for a more sessionable ale for the coming warm weather, Hildegard has just added the blond Saisonnière to her Urthel lineup.
Saisonnière was conceived in the style of saison, a farmhouse beer traditionally brewed from pale malts in March for drinking through the hot summer months. A peppery hop nose is typical of the style and evident here, tempered by the smoothness from 20 percent wheat in the grain bill, a departure from the traditional all-barley malt saison. Bottle-conditioned and unfiltered, Saisonnière is a happy hybrid of soft wheat beer, a smooth blonde and zippy farmhouse ale, ringing in at an approachable 6 percent ABV.
Find it in 11.2-oz. bottles ($9.50) at both Tria locations (1137 Spruce St. and 123 S. 18th St.) and on draft ($8) at the Abbaye (637 N. Third St.) while it lasts.
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