BEER BREAK: Your Two-Minute Beer Primer (fwd)

From beerbreakmail-owner(a)realbeer.com Fri Feb 8 11:27:00 2002 X-Authentication-Warning: realbeer.com: mail set sender to beerbreakmail-owner(a)realbeer.com using -f Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 06:13:27 -0800 Message-Id: <200202081413.GAA03488(a)realbeer.com> To: beerbreakmail-out(a)realbeer.com From: beerbreakmail <newsletter(a)realbeer.com> Subject: BEER BREAK: Your Two-Minute Beer Primer Sender: beerbreakmail-owner(a)realbeer.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: editor(a)realbeer.com X-Cray-VirusStatus: clean BEER BREAK: Your Two-Minute Beer Primer Vol. 2, No. 18 - Feb. 7, 2001 A publication of RealBeer.com http://www.realbeer.com - Minnesota-based Artisinal Imports hopes to distribute a new beer from Belgium nationwide. Production Urthel -- a creation of wife and husband team Hildegard and Bas van Ostaden, owners of Brouwerij de Leyerth -- has doubled and redoubled in the 14 months since the beer brand was introduced. Currently two Urthel Ales are offered in the United States: Urthel Tonicum Finiboldhus Amber Ale and Urthel Hibernus Quentum Tripel Ale. Both are bottle conditioned and unfiltered, and also available on draft. Urthel Amber is moderately strong at 7.5% abv, with a cloudy, orangish appearance. It is fruity and slightly hoppy in the nose, and malty with just a hint of hop bitterness. Urthel Hibernus Quentum Tripel is a strong 9% abv, slightly cloudy burnished-golden in color with white, voluminous foam. It has a honey note in the nose, and a spicy, flowery aroma.