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.
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
(Bottle 33 cl) I don’t know what the term "pico" means, but it sounds small. At the listed address, there wasn’t any sign, that this was a brewery. Maybe beacuse the beer is brewed at the De Graal in Bakkel. But we found this at a local beer-store. Beautiful red-brown color. The beer is filtered, but not pasteurized with quite a lot of yeast sediments. Very spicy with 6 different malts and 3 hops. Light brown head and good lacing. Quite typical dark ale, but with a rather sophisticated aromatic character. 050804
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 May 2005
at 07:12
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled. Clear golden. Rich aroma of herbal spices. Sweet and softly malty with notes of licorice and banana. Anise and salt in the finish. Hop dominated.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2005
at 05:39
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
Bottled. Cloudy golden. Banana aroma. Sweet and soft with medium body. The malt and yeast character in given more space in this beer than in their hop dominated Blond Extra. Pleasant and very drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2005
at 05:33
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled. Cloudy amber, small head. Fruity, estery banana aroma. Sweet and richly malty. Intriguing mix of fruit salad and malt. Alvinnes house character is here married with a body that adds a dimension to the beer. Complex and really good!
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2005
at 05:29
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottled. Mahogany colour. Roasty and nutty, very dry. Salty and medium bodied and very well hopped with somewhat soapy mouthfeel and really bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2005
at 05:25
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Smells exactly like MiP Hot Hot Porter. Unclear dark brown colour, small, tight, light brown head. Peppery and sweet flavour with some liquorice. Aftertaste of pure liquorice. Good mouthfeel.
Tried
on 19 Mar 2005
at 17:29
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle. Golden colour, creamy white head. Bitterness is a little harsh......
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Mar 2005
at 17:26
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Soapy, fruity aroma, pear. Thick mouthfeel, alcoholic flavour. Bitter aftertaste.
Tried
on 19 Mar 2005
at 17:24
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
More and more of the beer is now brewed at the Ingelmunster location, and not outsourced. It is unclear whether this is considered a new beer, or a renaming of the Extra Blond, now brewed at home. Clear, slightly peachy-blond beer, with slim white head. Bit vegetable, greenmalt nose, but not too young-smelling. Yeasty. Bitterish, grassy taste, ending vegetable bitter, like Belgian endives, but shortlived. Slick (again, umpteenth time I jot down this word today), velvety MF. It’s quite OK. Yet, if you call your beer " Extra Bitter ", I expect some other punch. Pay the brewer a USA trip, please.
Tried
on 07 Mar 2005
at 14:19
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Hazy amber-orange, small yellow head. Very slightly sourish nose, malts, bit of orange peel. Dry-bitterish. Spiced - I get orange peel again. Some candi sugar, not necessarily white, however - ends sweet. Quite well bodied. Aftertaste is drier again, nearly tart. Good, uncharacteristic tripel. Bit sweet at a moment - seems not completely fermented out. Needs some ageing.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Mar 2005
at 01:21