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Beer Advent Calendar \u2013 Day 31: Avec les Bons Voeux presented by Heather Vandenengel<\/strong><\/p>\n To celebrate the Holiday Season, 2Beerguys.com<\/a> and Seacoastbeveragelab.com<\/a> have teamed up with beer bloggers around the country to host the second annual beer bloggers advent calendar. This is the season of sharing and we intend to share our love of beer with you. 31 Bloggers Blogging \u2013 click here<\/a> for the running list of beers\/bloggers.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s see who is spreading holiday cheer today! Blogger:<\/strong> Heather Vandenengel Commercial Description:<\/strong> Since 1970, the brewery has been brewing a special beer to give as a new years present to their best clients. (\u201cAvec les Bons V\u0153ux de la brasserie Dupont \u00bb means \u00ab With the best wishes of the brewery Dupont \u00bb ).<\/p>\n Because of the increasing success, they started to commercialise this \u201ccadeau\u201d but kept the name. Although the demands were considerable, only a small quantity was brewed, so they had to make a reservation list, even months before new year.<\/p>\n This Bons V\u0153ux is coppery blond, has very fine hop aromas and tastes bitter, fruity and mild. Our selection of yeasts, in combination with a long riping process, on a \u201cdry hopping\u201d base, create a typical and complex aroma and taste.<\/p>\n A real refermentation in the bottle, which will continue for a long time in your cellar, results in a harmonious and well-balanced beer, full of unexpected and complex aromas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n Why I selected Avec les bons V\u0153ux:<\/strong><\/p>\n New Year\u2019s Eve is all about the bubbles. I was prepared for the night with a bottle of Enlightenment Brut, a biere de champagne brewed in Lowell by a new nanobrewery, Enlightenment Ales. I made a grave error, however, in keeping the bottle in my work fridge as it disappeared one day with no trace left behind. (Which I can confirm because I went through all the bottles in the recycling bin. (Not that I am at all bitter.))<\/p>\n Fast forward to a few days before New Year\u2019s Eve when I was at a champagne tasting at Julio\u2019s Liquors in Westboro. We tasted six different bottles, capped off with a 1999 bottle of Dom Perignon. After the tasting we wandered over to the bountiful beer section in search of an equally inspiring New Year\u2019s Eve beer. I was weighing options when Chris, a Julio\u2019s employee, suggested Avec les Bons V\u0153ux.<\/p>\n Long story short: When your first choice of a New Year\u2019s Eve beer goes missing, this makes a damn fine runner up. Originally brewed by Brasserie Dupont as a New Year\u2019s present for their best clients it gained a significant following until they brewed it for the masses. Saison Dupont is one of my all time favorite beers and one of the best examples of the Saison\/farmhouse ale style, and Avec les bon V\u0153ux is right up there too.<\/p>\n About the Honest Pint:<\/strong> About Brewery Dupont:<\/strong> The original beer was a \u201cSaison Beer\u201d, meaning that this beer was brewed in the winter, to be drunk in the following summer by the workers (season workers) on the fields.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Bons V\u0153ux is a blond top fermentation beer with refermentation in the bottle.<\/p>\n![\"Avec](\"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/images\/forblog\/advent12\/avec-les-bons-voeux-bottle.jpg\")
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\nHonest Pint is the beer column for DigBoston, Boston\u2019s altweekly newspaper.It covers all things New England beer, from new breweries to old beer bars. http:\/\/digboston.com\/tag\/honest-pint\/<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Brasserie](\"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/images\/forblog\/advent12\/brasserie-dupont-logo.jpg\"){kind=logo}
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\nThe brewery Dupont is co-writer of a real part of the Belgian beer history. \u00a0Situated in Tourpes (Leuze-en-Hainaut), in the centre of West-Hainaut, and incorporated in an old farm, originally dating from 1759, the brewing has been going on since 1844.<\/p>\n