Brouwerij Alvinne
Microbrewery
in
Moen,
West Flanders,
Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated Venue: Brouwerij Alvinne - De Proefloft & Beer Shop
Associated Webshop: Brouwerij Alvinne - Webshop
Established in 2004
Contact
Description
Alvinne is a 1200hl microbrewery in Flanders, Belgium. It has become an official brewery in 2004 and is located in the village of Moen, at the edge of the Mortagne touristic area and in the area where the historic breweries of the old Flemish Brown beerstyle are situated.
Their own yeast strain is called ‘Morpheus’ and was the reason to start experimenting with mixed fermentation, resulting in sour ales. Alvinne’s main mission is now to create innovative sour beers through a new style of Flemish blond sours by using the mixed fermentation method. You could call it the missing link between Oud Bruin and Lambic. Because of this, Alvinne has gained international attention and respect.
We already experimented with over 30 different kinds of fruits, herbs, plants, berries, flowers and vegetables. Next to the sour range, Alvinne has an interesting beer list that were aged on carefully selected used barrels, such as Cognac, Porto, Sherry, Calvados, Brandy, Red Wine and White Wine. Since 2018, we have started our own Membership “Alvinne’s Fellowship Of Exceptional Ales” to give our core fans the priority to get hands on our very exclusive and limited beers.
Their own yeast strain is called ‘Morpheus’ and was the reason to start experimenting with mixed fermentation, resulting in sour ales. Alvinne’s main mission is now to create innovative sour beers through a new style of Flemish blond sours by using the mixed fermentation method. You could call it the missing link between Oud Bruin and Lambic. Because of this, Alvinne has gained international attention and respect.
We already experimented with over 30 different kinds of fruits, herbs, plants, berries, flowers and vegetables. Next to the sour range, Alvinne has an interesting beer list that were aged on carefully selected used barrels, such as Cognac, Porto, Sherry, Calvados, Brandy, Red Wine and White Wine. Since 2018, we have started our own Membership “Alvinne’s Fellowship Of Exceptional Ales” to give our core fans the priority to get hands on our very exclusive and limited beers.
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
Tap at Billie’s Craft Beer Fest, day one. Nem keszitettem jegyzeteket, csak pontoztam.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Mar 2025
at 12:18
7.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle shared at work. Dark copperish brown pour, huge off-white head. Smokey, funky, fruity with a touch of earthy notes. Moderately sour, pretty funky with low sweet notes. Super high carbonation, light body. Weird at first, but quite interesting altogether.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2025
at 12:04
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
Bottle at home. Pours opaque orangeish golden with a white head. Nose is led by the the sour character of lactobacillus and acetic acid but there are obviously hints of fruits, raspberry being the most dominant. Taste is tart fruits, raspberry and peach both make an appearance but this latter quite vaguely and there's a surprisingly apparent vanilla kick to it too, besides the pleasantly sour mixed ferm-character. Closes with moderate sour finish, has a medium body and soft to average carbonation, drinks below the ABV. It's fun how the mixed ferm characteristics mix with the dessert sour traits.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2025
at 11:59
6.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 5.5
Bottle shared with Nari and Gabor Gábor (8% ABV version). Pours dark copper with a reddish hue and an off-white head. Nose is pretty held back, showing some funk and acetic acid, a touch of dried fruits perhaps. Taste is also rather moderate intensity-wise, and it shows funk, dried fruits, faint dark malts and a weird stale barnyard character. Without any major flaws but also quite forgetable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2025
at 11:59
7.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
Bottle shared with Gabor Gábor at MONYO. Pours opaque golden with a quickly dissipating head. Nose is grainy, malty with some spicy rye and moderate tartness, a tad musty. Taste is tart, showing grainy, bready malts and rye. Closes with a tart, malty finish, has a light body and average carbonation. Simple, but tasty and refreshing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2025
at 11:58
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
Tap at Billie’s Craft Beer Fest, day one. Nem jegyzeteltem, csak pontoztam.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Mar 2025
at 11:57
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 6
Tap at Billie’s Craft Beer Fest, day one. Nem jegyzeteltem, csak pontoztam.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Mar 2025
at 11:57
7/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle at Csaka. Pours a darker copper with an off-white head. Nose is dark sugars, toffee, light esters, dried fruits and a subtle hint of oak and booze. Some vanilla too. Taste is somewhat sweet, slightly boozy and somewhat tannic. There’s nuts, dried fruits, vague molasses, bready-toffeeish malts and a hint of booze. Light bodied with soft carbonation, drinks below the ABV but the warming booze’s there as a reminder. It’s a bit too thin and the barrel aging’s way too subtle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2025
at 11:56
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7
Bottle at Dynamo. Csokiba martott bogyosgyumolcsok, tulajdonkeppen likvid csokifondu.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2025
at 11:51
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
33cl bottle from Etre Gourmet web shop.
F: no real, some bubbles.
C: coppery, light hazy if you not swirl bottom of the bottle.
A: peach, woody, smoky, acetaldehyde, iodine, mahogany wood.
T: oh iodine woody, smoky, ginger, pears and peach yet somewhere under this messy acetic sourness, soft carbonation, whisky, enjoyable as once experiment yet nothing for repeating.
F: no real, some bubbles.
C: coppery, light hazy if you not swirl bottom of the bottle.
A: peach, woody, smoky, acetaldehyde, iodine, mahogany wood.
T: oh iodine woody, smoky, ginger, pears and peach yet somewhere under this messy acetic sourness, soft carbonation, whisky, enjoyable as once experiment yet nothing for repeating.
Tried
from Bottle
from Etre Gourmet (webshop)
on 17 Mar 2025
at 09:07