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PostPosted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 10:12 am    Post subject: My round, and the beer's £18 a bottle! Reply with quote

My round, and the beer's £18 a bottle!

Jan 25 2006

By The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

IT LOOKS like champagne and costs just as much.

But the latest vintage tipple on Huddersfield's restaurant tables is a £17.95 bottle of BEER!

Deus, brewed in the Belgian village of Buggenhout, is matured in the Champagne region of France.

It's corked bottle is the same shape used for Dom Perignon champagne.

And it's now available in Golcar.

Upmarker eaterie The Weaver's Shed is stocking the heady brew, which is 11.5% alcohol.

Owner Stephen Jackson said: "The beer comes in such a large bottle, 750ml, it really needs to be ordered by at least a couple of people, otherwise someone is going to be under the table before they start eating."

The posh beer is fermented over a month, using two yeasts to give it its high alcohol content.

It is then taken by tanker to a cellar near Epernay in Champagne and re-fermented like a sparkling wine to give its bubbles.

After being bottled, it is left in the cellar at 12ºC for nine months, then tilted and rotated for a week.

Yeast that gathers at the neck of the bottle is frozen and removed before the bottles are corked for sale.

Stephen said he was fan of Deus.

He added: "It's a great tasting Belgian beer with that unmistakeable full yeasty zestiness but added to this is the texture of the stuff; a soft, unctuous mousse that fills the mouth and caresses the palette.

"Food-wise it's perfect partly because of the soft bubbles - it's a lot easier on the digestion than super-gassy lagers - and partly because of its crispness and acidity, which marries well with foods a lot better than treacly bitters or ales.

"It also looks great. The bottle's very similar to Dom Perignon and when served in its ice bucket with a pair of champagne flutes you get the feeling it's money well spent."

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