Hi <<First Name>>, It's Tripel Hop time! Get the new, freshly released Duvel Tripel Hop 2014, this time made with the new American hop Mosaic! For the past few years, we've seen these beers fly off the shelf, the Citra version, the Sorachi and now the Mosaic... don't miss out on this treat! About Duvel Tripel Hop

Duvel is traditionally brewed with two hop varieties, but the once a year release of the Duvel Tripel Hop is brewed with three hop varieties and each year the third hop is changed to provide its own unique taste and aroma. This keeps the final flavor profile surprisingly exciting for any true beer lover. For 2014 their brewers selected the exotic hop Mosaic from the USA.

Characteristics

By using three instead of two hop varieties to brew, it obtains additional hop aromas and an increased bitterness. The typical Duvel palate is enriched with Mosaic hops providing fresh notes of tropical fruit and an intriguing, blueberry flavor. Mosaic hops are added again during â€˜dry-hoppingâ€™, extracting additional hop aromas into the beer. The higher aromatic intensity rounds out the beer, backing the final alcohol content of 9.5%.



Get Duvel Tripel Hop Right here! We've always offered a constantly growing, changing and selected range of Belgian beers, well, since the late 1970's, because that's what Cavedirect, and Beermerchants.com were founded on!



Belgian beer, is a bedrock brewing and drinking scene that today is much imitated, but hardly beaten when it comes to their staple classic styles, and the ones we love, like Gueuze, Sour ales, and now seeing the influence they have shown America returned in Belgian brewers using American hops for twists on their classics.



It's all to easy to glance past some of the best beers in the world, heading to the lastest from America or the UK, but we have to remind ourselves of the classics, the ones that inspired and the ones that you can go back to all the time and enjoy the quality and consistency, and history, with ease.



We've repleneshed the shelves with classics fom De Ranke, Het Anker, Beersel, Malheur and many more... Belgian Beers are all here! Rodenbach

Rodenbach was a brewery and a brewing family from Roeselare, Belgium. The brewery is now owned by Palm Breweries. It is noted for its production of barrel-aged sour beers in the Flemish tradition.



In 1821, the four Rodenbach brothers (Pedro, Alexander, Ferdinand and Constantijn) invested in a small brewery in Roeselare, in the West Flanders province of Belgium. The brothers agreed to a partnership for 15 years. At the end of this period, Pedro and his wife, Regina Wauters, bought the brewery from the others and Regina ran the business while Pedro served in the military. Their son Edward later took over the brewery (1864) and, it was during his directorship that the brewery saw great growth. Edward's son, Eugene, took over in 1878 and, in preparation for this position, travelled to England where he learned how to ripen beer in oak barrels and then mix old and young beers.



It was this that became the method of producing beer that Rodenbach became famous for.



We've always worked hard to keep a range of Rodenbach beers, and other flemish sour red ales, since it's a beer style we all particularly enjoy here at Beermerchants.com - we've even got Rodenbach in cans, and their fabulous Vintage single foeder release, as well as the mega popular Charactere Rouge. Read more about Rodenbach Right here Malheur In a country with beers named after the Devil, or called "Sudden Death", one called "Misfortune" (Malheur, in French) is just another wry jest. The beer itself is no joke. On the contrary, it is an inspired beer. Malheur is made in a new, revivalist, brewery. Its founder, Emanuel "Manu" De Landtsheer, opened the brewery to restore his family's brewing tradition. They had for five generations been involved in a brewing business that traced its origins to the 1600s. Their original brewery closed just before World War II. The family continued to grow hops until the 1970s. Their home is in the little town of Buggenhout, on the road from Aalst, one of Belgium's hop-growing centres, to the historic city of Mechelen (which is between Brussels and Antwerp)

Malheur Brut Malheur BiÃ¨re Brut â€œÃ la mÃ©thode originaleâ€, oft called a Champagne beer because o fthis process typical to the classic sparkling wines of the Champagne region, is bottled and refermented up to three times in the bottle. Malheur has succeeded in developing a process whereby the yeast is collected in the bottleneck. The yeast is frozen and removed using the â€œdÃ©gorgementâ€ process whereby only the ambient pressure in the bottle is used to force the yeast out again.

Malheur Dark Brut Different to the "normal" Malheur Brut, is the Malheur Dark Brut, with it's complex aroma of sherry, Madeira wine, vanilla and wood, and even Haagse Hopjes (slightly coffee and caramel flavoured sweets): this coffee flavour comes from the roasted malt. The secret of the oaky dry, balanced Brut flavour is in the beer barrels: Malheur Dark Brut is matured in young American oak barrels, specially charred for this beer. The bitterness is beautifully balanced with the tannin of the wood and just a hint of the sweetness of the alcohol and a dry aftertaste. Malheur are right here! Read on for more beer news!