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
Vaartstraat 4a, Moen, 8552, Belgium
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.

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7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
33 cL bottle. Pours slight cloudy orange with a small white head. Dense peachy and mild citrusy hops aroma. I get som simcoe-like note. Light sweet fruity hoppy flavoured with a nice emitting peachy note. Subdued sweetness into a slowly increasing dry finish with a persisting fruity touch. Ends dry and fruity. Crisp IPA.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Mar 2009 at 04:42

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
33 cL bottle. Pours slight cloudy orange with a small white head. Dry malty and slight wooden to a minor metallic note in the aroma. Solid alcohol presence and mild spiced to dry flavoured. Bitter and yet fruity too. Medium dry into the far finish. Does display and nice fruity flavour and multiple layers of calvados flavours.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Mar 2009 at 04:39

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
33 cL bottle. Pours dark brown to black with a bubbly tan head. Wineous and fruity aroma, very pleasant and inviting. Mild sourness shining through. Smooth and soft mouthfeel. Sweet and distinct fruity initial flavour. Light brett touch following. Good blend between the bourgogne wine fruity notes and the podge beers notes of malt, chocolate and yeast. Mild fruity flavoured into the finish. Light wooden note.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Mar 2009 at 04:25

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
33 cL bottle. Pours hazy yellow with a small white head. Mild citric hops and light malty aroma. Light earthy and yeasty note too. Flavour is medium dry, light bitter and somewhat spiced. Dry, slight grassy and hoppy finish.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Mar 2009 at 04:22

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
75 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Mild acetone and vague chemical aroma, distinct wooden note. Dry malty and acidic with a light winegrape note. Mild acidic and slight acetone touch. Stays on the light sweet and mild fruity site without going Rodenbach like sour. Ends slight acidic and fruity.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Mar 2009 at 04:18

5.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
33 cL bottle. Who ever thought ginger in beer is a good thing? Pours clear and golden orange with a fully gone head. Ginger and cardemomme aroma. Citric and ginger dense flavoured. Mild bitter and slight acidic flavoured. Spiced and malty flavoured into the finish. I cannot pinpoint anything wrong with this - apart from ginger :)
Tried from Bottle on 07 Mar 2009 at 04:16

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Small rim over gold-amber ber, very slight haze. Grapey hops nose, bit dusty. Oily hops, resiny, no exaggerated bitterness, Bit of citrus(peel) retronasal especially. Slick, oily feel, but ends a bit flat. Fairly good, if not terribly exciting "Belgian IPA"; bitterness held in check in favour of aroma, which is positive.
Tried on 07 Mar 2009 at 02:20

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Short-lived off-white head over fully hazy brown beer with foxy-amber highlights. Vanilla, bitter almonds, very estery nose. Sweet, with slightly burned malts and chocolate, a bit of brandy, alcohol & fusels. Bitter orange peel & dark fruit flavours. Pretty balanced for such a massive ale. Very well-bodied, velvety MF, alcoholburn. Bit sweet, very powerful, but VERY un-stoutlike, actually.
Tried on 06 Mar 2009 at 02:05

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Good dark, off-white head, creamy, over well-carbonated, amber-orange beer. Alcohol and fusels, vanilla, even to the impression of ice cream, and fresh, new oak. Vanilla, fresh greenery, enhanced by very obvious carbonation. Fruity finish, with strawberry, apples, raspberry and more vanilla - anything but grapes, it seems. Quite OK body for the ABV, on the verge of overcarbonated, which is kind of strange for a B-A beer. Nice, drinkable.
Tried on 06 Mar 2009 at 02:00

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle 33cl.Clear medium brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light lgiht heavy malty, caramel, spicy, star anis, black berries, wood, oak, brown sugar, raisin and prune notes. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet, light acidic and moderate to light heavy bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20081214]
Tried from Bottle on 24 Feb 2009 at 03:25