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Summary:
Company: De Proef Brouwerij / Bell’s Brewery
Type: Dark Spicy Belgian Ale Porter mix with sour cherry juice
Taste: Sweet, Spicy, Sour, Smokey, Earthy
Alcohol Content: 7.5%
Food Pairing: This guy I think is best enjoyed by itself…
Rating: 3 out of 6 (awesome execution, concept, and flavor but mixing porter and a Belgian Ale just is not doing it for me…)
Website: De Proef Brouwerij / Bell’s Brewery
Van Twee is a collaboration between De Proef Brouwerij of Belgium and Bell’s Brewery of Michigan. Taking the best of both Belgium and Michigan and mixing them into one nice beer. This guy is a mix between a super dark spicy belgian ale and a porter brewed with sour cherry juice. In the nose you get a sour spicy cherry scent similar to what you get from a lambic ale or a belgian ale brewed with Bret and lactobacillus. In the mouth you get the porter flavor with cherry juice but as it goes down you get subtile hints of belgian spices peaking its head through. These are two really different beer styles mixed together and the porter really does overpower the belgian ale so it is kind of a shock to the senses when you first taste it, but the more you drink the more the porter drops away and you are presented with all of the nice belgian spiciness underneath … The cherry juice and the lactobacillus gives this guy an awesome subtile sourness that reminds me a lot of RRBC’s aged belgian ales. This beer is super complex and fun to drink because of all of the different crazy flavors that you are presented with, but after all said and done, the mixing of a belgian ale and a porter is really is not doing it for me…but to quote LeVar Burton in Reading Rainbow, “but don’t take my word for it.”
