Duvel
Duvel Moortgat Brewery (Brouwerij Duvel Moortgat) (Euronext: DUV) is a Flemish family-controlled brewery founded in 1871. Its strong golden pale ale, Duvel, is the company’s best known product which is exported to more than 40 countries. Duvel is Brabantian, Ghent and Antwerp dialect for devil, the standard Dutch word being duivel.
To commemorate the end of World War I, the Moortgats named their main beer Victory Ale. But during the 1920s, an avid drinker described the beer as “nen echten duvel” (a real devil in Brabantian Dutch) – perhaps in reference to its formidable alcohol content (8.5% ABV) – and the name of the beer was changed to Duvel. It has become the brewery’s flagship beer. Considered by many the definitive version of the Belgian Strong Golden Ale style, Duvel is brewed with Pilsner malt and white sugar, and hopped with Saaz hops and Styrian Goldings, the yeast still stems from the original culture of Scottish yeast bought by Albert Moortgat during a business tour of the U.K. just after World War I.
Styles
Belgian Ale
Triple Hop
http://www.duvel.com/en
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