milliondollars wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 4:58 am damn! these sours look amazing! did you order them online?I ordered these in September or October last year. At that time it was not known which beers would be made. The price was €100 without shipping for 3 liters of beer. I was planning on picking them up at the brewery (2 hour drive one way) but I could not find a moment so I decided to have them shipped.
Alvinne is a special brewery for me. Nowadays there are a lot of special breweries. But this one especially clicks with me. Their beers are delicious if you like sours. The people are very nice. You can read about them here:
https://www.alvinne.com/EN/index-EN.html
What makes them special is there yeast. Unlike a lot of small breweries that use a commercial yeast, they harvested their own:
Our brewery is strongly dependent on Morpheus yeast, our house yeast strain, which enables us to brew sour and non-sour beers. In 2008, our yeast whisperer Marc picked a wild yeast culture in the French Auvergne and patiently selected, isolated and cultivated the now famous Morpheus yeast to the desired standard.There is a Belgian store that sells beers worldwide. I can highly recommend them. Great service and great packaging. They carry a lot of Belgian sours from different breweries. They also have all the Alvinne Fellowship beers I pictured (but at a premium):
Morpheus is a mixed culture of 2 yeast strains (saccharomyces cerevisae) and lactobacillus. In our Traditional Ales range, the lactobacillus is deactivated.
Morpheus yeast gives our beers the recognisable Alvinne touch. According to yeast whisperer Marc, you need 3 ingredients to nurture your house yeast; discipline, passion and love. Every single day!
https://www.bieresgourmet.be/en/