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==Label == | ==Label == | ||
[[File:Label-Cantillon-CrianzaHelena750.jpg|500px|750ml Label]] | [[File:Label-Cantillon-CrianzaHelena750.jpg|500px|750ml Label]] | ||
==Label Translation== | |||
The label for Crianza Helen contains both a description of the beer and the bottle's contents on the left side and and the lyrics to a folk song by Walter Evenpoel about the Pajottenland and lambic called ''Vivan de Gees.'' | |||
<u>Left-side Label Translation:</u><br> | |||
Crianza Helena | |||
This geuze is a spontaneously fermented beer, composed of 100% biolambic from three different vintages, each present for 1/3. | |||
March 5th 2005 – first use of a cognac barrel | |||
January 26 2006 – first use of a Bordeaux barrel | |||
March 13th 2007 – from a young, living barrel | |||
Aged in oak barrels | |||
Our exclusive selection of barrels imparts a willful flavor pattern to this Cantillon geuze . | |||
Unfiltered. | |||
No sugars. | |||
Spontaneously fermented in the bottle. | |||
Lambic is brewed with 65% malted barley, 35% wheat, hops and water. | |||
Brewery Cantillon | |||
Gildenstraat 56 | |||
1070 Brussels | |||
Bottled on June 26th 2008 | |||
Best before date: at least 30 years after bottling | |||
Open in June 2009 at the earliest <br> <br> | |||
<u>Right-side Label Translation:</u><br> | |||
'''Long live the geuze!<br><br>''' | |||
An ode to our region,<br> | |||
the Pajottenland, its dialect<br> | |||
and to the geuze…<br><br> | |||
Life flies by, passes you like a train;<br> | |||
It’s too short to argue or be sad.<br> | |||
There is so much beauty to be seen around us:<br> | |||
the fields, the pastures and the waving green.<br> | |||
The Pajottenland tastes like a beautiful, tender strawberry<br> | |||
and it flows from the bottles filled with foaming geuze.<br><br> | |||
Let us drink to tomorrow, to yesterday and to soon,<br> | |||
let us drink to life, long live the geuze!<br><br> | |||
The lambic is aging in Lembeek and Gooik,<br> | |||
in Sint-Ulriks-Kapellen and in Beersel, in Anderlecht too.<br> | |||
After two years in the barrel and another two years in the bottle<br> | |||
you get a divine drink, a real delicacy.<br> | |||
Take some radishes and some head cheese or prime ham<br> | |||
and wash it down with a liter of geuze!<br><br> | |||
Let us drink to tomorrow, to yesterday and to soon,<br> | |||
let us drink to life, long live the geuze!<br> | |||
Pieter Bruegel could already see it in his time<br> | |||
he’s drawn it, painted it with zeal:<br> | |||
the bagpipe players, the dancers, the fun.<br> | |||
We carry on like that but in our own way<br> | |||
We roll down the mountain with Mieken or Trees<br> | |||
And quench our thirst with a kriek or a geuze!<br><br> | |||
Let us drink to tomorrow, to yesterday, and to soon,<br> | |||
let us drink to life, long live the geuze!<br><br> | |||
Long live Helena!<br><br> | |||
Lyrics by Walter Evenpoel<br> | |||
Text available in standard Dutch<br> | |||
==Vivan de Gees== | |||
Approximately 55 seconds into the video is a performance of Vivan de Gees, the song whose lyrics are on the back of the Crizana Helana label. | |||
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==Bottle Log== | ==Bottle Log== | ||