Palm Breweries
Palm Breweries is a Belgian brewery. It is one of the largest independent from monopolists Anheuser -Busch InBev Belgian breweries. The main product of US-based Steenhuffel and focused on Belgian beer specialty brewery is among the amber beers dominant as the undisputed market leader Palm. In addition, Palm Breweries also produces with Brugge Tripel, Steen Brugge, Rodenbach, Boon Geuze and bock beer more specialty beers. Total production in 2004 was at 1.7 million hectoliters of beer. The brewery is a member of the Society Belgian Family Brewers.
History
The history of palm can be traced back to the year 1597, as the acquisition of a farm has been documented in the De Hoorn family in Steenhuffel. But the brewing of beer in Steenhuffel and Breweries De Hoorn and De Valck were first officially mentioned in 1747. From the brewery De Hoorn went to the First World War with an expansion the Palm brand out. The name was chosen due to the identical spelling in Dutch and in French, and because of its importance as a Christian symbol. From 1929 the Steenhuffeler beer was sold under the name " Speciale Palm " via the village boundaries. In 1993 a joint venture was established with Boon, which focused on the continuation of the production of traditional lambic beers. In 1998, the Palm Brewery Rodenbach red beer specialists. After the production of palm from the year had been outsourced 1999 parts to Kielce in Poland, Palm Breweries acquired in 2001 a majority stake in Bruges Brewery De Gouden Boom.
Products
The most popular beers in terms of sales of Palm Breweries are the Palm beers. In addition to the Amber Beer Palm, which is extracted from top-fermenting yeast, malted barley, hops, a mixture of herbs and water from an artesian well and has an alcohol content of 5.4 % and an original gravity of 12.4 ° P, produces the brewery also Palm Royale ( alcohol content 7.5% original gravity of 16.5 ° P ), palm Dobbel ( 6.2% alcohol; wort 13.8 ° P ) and alcohol-free Palm Green ( alcohol content < 0.2 %, 7.5 ° P wort ). A bock beer brewed by Palm Breweries. ( Original gravity of 12.3 ° P Alcohol content 5.2%) and Rodenbach Grand Cru ( alcohol content 6.0 % original gravity 14.0 ° P ) in the house Rodenbach Rodenbach the Rotbiere are produced. The Steenbrugge Abbey beers are available in the variants Steenbrugge Blonde, Dubbel Bruin Steenbrugge, Steen Brugge Tripel and Steenbrugge Wit. From the Bruges De Gouden Boom brewery the beer De Gouden Boom was taken and Boon Boon Geuze beers produced the spontangärenden, Boon Kriek and Framboise Boon.