Van Steenberge Piraat Amber Ale 4pc Bundle

TAST­ING NOTES FROM THE CURATOR

Bit­ter­sweet and spicy on the nose, this is a cop­per-col­ored beer that warms you down to the core. Its com­plex, rich fla­vors are slight­ly sweet with a hop­py bit­ter­ness. Its aro­mas blend fresh bread, spices, and trop­i­cal fruit, and it gains its clas­si­fi­ca­tion as a ​‘Tripel’, a Bel­gian and Dutch term, in ref­er­ence to the amount of malt used in the fer­men­ta­tion process — three times the usu­al malt amount, which results in a strong beer with an ABV above 9 percent.

PREPA­RA­TION OR PAIRINGS

Made for the cool­er months, Tripel beers are great with game meats, from pheas­ant and quail to veni­son. The strength and sweet­ness in a Tripel Bel­gian makes it the per­fect beer for a hearty ham sand­wich. This beer also calls for stronger blue cheeses like Gor­gonzo­la or washed-rind cheeses like Fro­magerie Beillevaire’s Époiss­es or Mun­ster. Baked fruit desserts like peach cob­bler will go well with this force­ful, gold­en brew.

BUILD­ING ON SUCCESS

After Van Steenberge’s suc­cess with the Gulden Draak Tripel, the first beer on their ros­ter mak­ing use of the brewery’s sig­na­ture wine yeast since 1986, they cre­at­ed the Piraat line with three dif­fer­ent ver­sion, the bot­tle-and-keg orig­i­nal Piraat, a Tripel Hop ver­sion, and Piraat Red, the fruiti­est of the trio. Van Steen­berge con­tin­ues to evolve and change, build­ing on their strengths to cre­ate bet­ter and bet­ter beers.

Storage Instructions

Store beer bot­tles upright to pre­vent yeast rings from appear­ing. They must be kept in a cool, dark place at approx­i­mate­ly 13°C. Don’t allow beer to be caught in bright light for long peri­ods of time to pre­vent it from attain­ing a ​“skunky” taste.