A La Mort Subite
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Website (French, Dutch, English, German): http://www.alamortsubite.com/index.htm
Address: Rue Montagne-aux-Herbes Potagères 7 B-1000 Brussels
Phone: +32 (0)2-513.13.18
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Overview
A La Mort Subite, whose name means sudden death in French, is a lambic café located in Brussels and founded in 1928. It was opened by Theophile Vossen and named after a portion of a dice game played at Vossen's previous pub La Cour Royale which he opened in 1910.[1]
History
The history of the café Mort Subite is just as complicated as that of Brasserie Mort Subite. The café certainly came first, having started operations in 1928. The café originally blended their own lambics from various producers in the area. After Theophile, his grandchildren René and Jean-Pierre Vossen continued on with the family business.
With regard to the Mort Subite beers, which are still served at the café, Van den Steen notes that “the Mort Subite named appeared in 1970, when a well-known Brussels café and geuze blending business, A la Mort Subite, was taken over from the Vossen brothers”. Eventually, De Keersmaeker took over the Mort Subite beer name and their popular Geuze Den Hert became Geuze Mort Subite.[2]
Today, Mort Subite as a beer is a brand name currently under the Carlsberg & Heineken group since 2007. They produce both traditional oude geuze and oude kriek lambics as well as a line of sweetened products all under the Mort Subite name.
The café is now back in the hands of the fourth generation of Vossens, Theophile's great-grandchildren Bernard and Olivier, and is a popular pub serving Mort Subite lambics and other Belgian beers.[1]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A La Mort Subite, History - http://www.alamortsubite.com/FR/histoire.html (French) Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "MortSubite" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Jef Van den Steen, Geuze & Kriek: The Secret of Lambic Beer, 2012