St Pierre

St Pierre Brown boxed abbey brown ale

St Pierre Brown Abbey Brown Ale

St. Pierre Brown is a top-fermented brown Abbey ale with a roasted malt, caramel flavor world. Its slightly coffee aroma makes this Belgian beer unique, and its delicate flavor is completed by the added licorice and cinnamon.

• Bitter/sweet-soft/caramel
• Brown beer
• top fermentation
• Alcohol content: 6%

Producer information

Andries Van Doorselaer and Joanna Van Accoleyen were originally from Malderen, where they married in 1691, but moved their family and business to neighboring Steenhuffel. Van Doorselaer began renting a brewery next to the church sometime before 1698; however, he was able to open his own brewery when he purchased the property De Hoorn across the street in 1706. His entrepreneurial spirit was unstoppable, however. 

In 1801, De Hoorn was sold at public auction. Jan Baptist De Mesmaecker and Clara Bastaerts were the highest bidders and became the new owners. In 1908, their daughter Henriette De Mesmaecker married Arthur Van Roy, who was descended from a brewing family in Wieze. Arthur began the industrial development of the brewery so that he could sell his beers far beyond the borders of the municipality. He also created his own “Spéciale Belge” brew. 

Later, after the outbreak of the First World War, De Hoorn Brewery was not spared. In 1914, the brewery was almost completely destroyed in a bombing raid. During the reconstruction, it proved impossible to invest in the cooling technology needed to brew the increasingly popular bottom-fermented pilsner beers. The brewery therefore continued to brew top-fermented beers out of necessity. In 1929, Arthur Van Roy gave the “Spéciale Belge” the brand name “Spéciale PALM” as a sign of the victory of top-fermented beers over bottom-fermented pilsners. He was convinced that the Spéciale PALM offered more aroma and flavor than pilsners. The brewery survived the Second World War unscathed and then began to expand. This growth was due in no small part to the growing success of “Spéciale PALM”. To celebrate the brewery's bicentennial in 1947, his son Alfred Van Roy released Dobbel PALM, a slightly rounder festive beer that has since become the beer of the festive season.

The brewery continued to develop in the sixties. When local beer culture returned to Belgium after the student revolts of 1968 and the Flower Power movement, Alfred Van Roy was the leading player accordingly, achieving the greatest growth with his Special PALM Brabant-style amber beer. The public increasingly referred to De Hoorn Brewery as the PALM Brewery.

In 2014, Palm Breweries was renamed Palm Belgian Craft Brewers. A new microbrewery named after De Hoorn was opened to experiment with new combinations of herbs, spices, hops, fruits and wood. At 10 hl, the capacity of the microbrewery is almost exactly the same as that of the old village brewery. In 2016, the Dutch Swinkels brewing family acquired a majority stake in Palm Belgian Craft Brewers.

Storage

Store in a dry, cool place.

Distributor

Belgaco Kft.
1011. Bp., Halász utca 1.

Product information

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