Palm Breweries

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Palm Brewery
Palm beer

Palm Breweries is a Belgian brewery . The most important product of the brewery based in Steenhuffel and specializing in Belgian beers is the palm , which is the undisputed market leader among amber beers . In addition, Palm Breweries also produces other specialty beers with Brugge Tripel , Cornet, Steenbrugge , Rodenbach , Boon Geuze and Bockbier . The total production in 2004 was 1,700,000 hl of beer. The brewery was a member of the Belgian Family Brewers until 2016 .

history

The history of Palm can be traced back to 1597 when the acquisition of a farm by the De Hoorn family in Steenhuffel was documented. But beer brewing in Steenhuffel and the De Hoorn and De Valck breweries were not officially mentioned until 1747. After the First World War, the De Hoorn brewery expanded into the Palm brand. The name was chosen because of the identical spelling in Dutch and French and because of its importance as a Christian symbol. From 1929 the Steenhuffeler beer was sold under the name “Speciale Palm” beyond the village limits. 1993 was a joint venture established with Boon, which refers to the continuation of the production of traditional Lambic concentrated beers. In 1998, Palm took over the Rodenbach brewery, a specialist in red beer . After the production of Palm was partially outsourced to Kielce in Poland from 1999 , Palm Breweries acquired a majority stake in the Bruges brewery De Gouden Boom in 2001 . In May 2016, the Palm breweries were taken over by the Dutch Bavaria Group.

Products

Rodenbach in the original glass

The Palm Breweries' most popular beers in terms of sales are palm beers. In addition to the amber beer Palm, which is obtained from top-fermented yeast , barley malt, hops, a mixture of herbs and water from an artesian well and has an alcohol content of 5.4% and an original wort content of 12.4 ° P, the brewery also produces Palm Royale ( Alcohol content 7.5%; original gravity 16.5 ° P), Palm Dobbel (alcohol content 6.2%; original gravity 13.8 ° P) and the alcohol-free Palm Green (alcohol content <0.2%; original gravity 7.5 ° P) . A bock beer is also brewed by Palm Breweries. The Rodenbach red beers (alcohol content 5.2%; original wort 12.3 ° P) and Rodenbach Grand Cru (alcohol content 6.0%; original wort 14.0 ° P) are produced. The Steenbrugge Abbey Beers are available in the variants Steenbrugge Blond, Steenbrugge Dubbel Bruin, Steenbrugge Tripel and Steenbrugge Wit. The De Gouden Boom beer was taken over from the Bruges brewery De Gouden Boom and Boon produces the spontaneous brewing beers Boon Geuze, Boon Kriek and Boon Framboise.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Historiek Brouwerij Palm ( Memento of the original dated February 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.palmbreweries.com
  2. ↑ Introducing our new member: Strubbe , at www.belgianfamilybrewers.be , accessed April 24, 2018
  3. ↑ Bavaria neemt Belgische brouwer Palm over , on www.nu.nl , accessed on April 24, 2018

literature

  • Michael Jackson: Amber beers . In: Grote Belgische beers , 5th edition, Lannoo Uitgeverij, 2006, ISBN 9020965913 , pp. 251-267.

Web links

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