Mulled beer
Mulled beer is an alcoholic hot drink that, similar to mulled wine, is preferably consumed in winter and is mixed with various spices.
There is a special mulled beer in Belgium , where it is sold as a warm cherry beer ("Glühkriek", from Flemish kriek = sour cherry) as an alternative to mulled wine . There it was developed by the St. Louis Brewery in the early 1990s and later marketed as draft beer in Belgium, but increasingly also abroad. The basis for this mulled beer is the Bruin beer ("brown or dark beer") from the region around Oudenaarde . Its sweet and sour taste is created with cherry juice during the cherry harvest in late summer . The resulting mixed drink matures in oak barrels in about 6–12 months before it can be processed further as a cherry beer (with a typical red color and a distinct cherry aroma). The Belgian cherry beer is mixed with honey or brown sugar as a sweetener and various spices . Typical Christmas spices such as cloves, star anise, cardamom and cinnamon are suitable as spices. Rum can also be added. As an alternative to cherry juice, orange juice is sometimes used in the production. The fermentation process continues after the spices have been added in order to remove their aroma from the spices.
Mulled beer is also very popular in Poland and is called Grzane piwo .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mulled beer. In: www.gluehbier.de. Retrieved April 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Mulled beer. Retrieved April 16, 2016 .