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Wittekerke
Brewery Bavik
Refermented in the Bottle & Keg: living beer.
Belgian Wheat Beer 5% Alc. by Vol.

WIT-style: A true WIT beer must be made of at least 25 % wheat malt in combination with barley malt. Belgian WIT beers are naturally cloudy since they are unfiltered.

WITTEKERKE charms you with its own character, smooth taste and a unique delicious aroma. A very pleasant drink, light in alcohol with a crisp and refreshing flavor. WITTEKERKE is always served cold, but in taking your time to enjoy it, you will find more flowery and spring flavors towards the end of your glass. Although the hoppy bitterness is an underlying taste, it is never dominant. Perfect white head.

WITTEKERKE is a fictitious name for a typical Flemish town, like we find hundreds of villages in Flanders with a name ending on KERKE (church) or KAPELLE (chapel). WITTE means white in English, thus the translation of the name is WHITE CHURCH. The Bavik brewery has since a long time brewed its own authentic WIT beer under the "Bavik Wit" label, but the brewery chose to change the name in cooperation with the producers of the Belgian sit-com "WITTEKERKE", airing twice a week in prime-time on the Belgian TV channels. The actors drink WITTEKERKE during the show.

WITTEKERKE is now the best selling WIT beer in Belgium off-premise, and was voted several years in a row the best Belgian WIT beer by Belgian beer connoisseurs.

FOOD COMBINATIONS: this refreshing light beer is mostly consumed with snacks at receptions and parties, or just as an excellent thirst quencher any time of the day. WITTEKERKE is the right choice with a very spicy Carpachio, with white fish, scallops or a fresh salad. An omelet dish will also make a good combination. Cheers.

Wittekerke, women know why.

Miss Belgium, Daisy Van Cauwenbergh, didn’t care too much for beer. She was more the white wine type. Of course, she drank the dark table beer as a child at home, and occasionally the Belgian Pils during the many parties at the university, where she studied to become a Civil Engineer.

Her attitude towards beer completely changed the day she was offered a fresh poured Wittekerke on draft. She says: “I immediately fell in love with the glass. It is elegant, beautiful and feminine. The first sip was a nice surprise, a taint of sweetness, but still full of character, with a light lemon taste, and a soft mouth feel. So refreshing.” Now you hear if from somebody else, a Belgian Beauty QueenNewsletter December 2000


“I have sampled more than 1300 beers in my lifetime, and I’m also a “Life Long Lover of Dark Beer”, but this is the best beer I have ever tasted, my GOD what a treat. Please give my thanks to all concerned and GOD bless you all!”
Best Wishes, Joe Marjancik
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Newsletter August 2000