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==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==