JAN
DE LICHTE
4
grains double white
Name : Jan De Lichte was an infamous
robbers’ chief at the end of the 18th Century. He
was broken on the wheel at the age of 23 at the
Marketplace of Aalst
Type : four grains
double white
Alcohol percentage : 7.0 vol%
Appearance : straw
yellow, slightly hazy, strong sparkling, heavy head
Taste : grapefruit
aroma, spicy and slightly bitter in the mouth, long
dry aftertaste.
CANASTER
Winterscotch
Name : “One used to praise their beer, which
was called Canaster, it was drink and food, even for
a long trip”
(Petrus Van Nuffel – 1908 –
about the beer of the Carmelite convent of Aalst).
Type : scotch
Alcohol percentage : 8.7 vol%
Appearance : red brown
with broken white heavy head
Taste : mainly fruity in
the nose, nice balance of sweet and sour in the
mouth, long dry burnt bitter aftertaste
Jan Michiel van Bragt
(catalogue Essen’s Christmas beer festival) : a very
tempting aroma of burnt malts, citrus fruits :
fruity esters and some touch of liquorice.