Bière de Vigne

Brasserie Breughel Bière de Vigne (Québec) - a very strange concoction - 90% grape must, with barley malt, fermented with a beer yeast. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the few reviews on ratebeer are highly unfavourable, though I think that a bit unfair, for this is really not beer as we know it, nor is it really wine, as we know it. It's a chimaera, and a weird one at that. A vivid crimson-esque colour, lightly carbonated, quite dry, with some lambic-like qualities, fruit yes, but no sweetness, some geuze-like qualities, but no sourness or real funk. Maybe this is like lambrusco in the hands of a Donati or Corneliessen? I merely offer conjecture. Anyways, Arcimboldo on the label... nice touch. Not very Breughel though...