DeProef Brewmaster’s Collection – Reinaert Wild Ale, Saison Imperiale, Witte Noir & Lozen Boer

Today we get to see four new labels in the DeProef brewmaster’s Collection of veers.  These Special Reserve brews are packaged in 750ml bottles.  Reinaert Wild Ale is named for a field adjacent to the brewery named for a fabled fox in Belgian folklore.  This beer uses two yeast strains (Sacchromyces & Brettanomyces) as well as an East Kent Goldings dry-hop.  This Golden Wild Ale comes in at 9% ABV.  Saison Imperiale is a Belgian Farmhouse Ale that also uses two strains of yeas (Sacchromyces & a “light touch of Lambic-like” Brettanomyces.)  Look for Saison Imperiale to come in at 8.5% ABV.   Witte Noir is an Imperial Amber Ale designed as a companion beer for De Proef La Grande Blanche, but with a darker interpretation in the classic German Dopplebock style.  Witte Noir comes in at 7.5% ABV.  Lozen Boer ABT is an Abbey Style Ale that is named after a restaurant near the brewery and a term that loosely translates to “Gentleman farmer.”  The beer celebrates the restaurateur’s father who made his living smuggling cows from Amsterdam to Belgium while pretending to be a farmer.  Lozen Boer ABT comes in at 10% ABV.