Description
A two-year-old, spontaneously fermented oud bruin with the typical deep brown-red color. Tastes sour and spicy and at the same time dry and vinous, with notes of ripe red and black fruit. Nice woody scent. Ancestral recipe made with a coolship. Contains pale ale malt, pilsner malt, biscuit malt, chocolate malt, sour malt, rye malt and over-year hops. Alc. 7.4% vol.
The name of Donder’s Oud Bruin refers to Everaard t’Serclaes (1315-1388), a Brussels patrician who gained fame by reconquering Brussels from the Flemish Count Louis of Male in 1356. He became alderman of Brussels five times (from 1365 to 1388) and collected a considerable land holding, including the manor of Kruikenburg in Ternat and that of Zierbeek in Schepdaal. But when the Duchy of Brabant became involved in a conflict with Gelre, this led to the end of t’Serclaes. The military operations between the Brabant Duchess Johanna and the Gelderland Duke William I were difficult. Sweder van Abcoude, the lord of Gaasbeek, saw an opportunity to expand his grounds. For t’Serclaes, Sweder’s display of power was a thorn in his side and he wanted to stop to it. Sweder’s resentment was great. When ‘t Serclaes returned from Lennik on horseback on Maundy Thursday, the Brussels alderman was ambushed by a gang of loyalists of the lord of Gaasbeek, including his bailiff. They overpowered t’Serclaes, cut off one of his feet and cut out his tongue. None of the local residents dared to help the alderman, but eventually two deans took him to Brussels. Five days after the attack, on March 31, 1388, t’Serclaes died from the injuries sustained.
