Archaic Styles
These include
- Arge: A sour beer from Antwerp
- Faro:A beer that was drunk sweetened. Not necessarily the same as the modern Faro.
- Grisette (Little gray): A lower-alcohol Saison drunk originally by miners in Hainault.
- Happe: A predecessor of wheat beer, made with wheat and oats.
- Hoppe: An early hopped beer, from the mid 1500-s when gruit was widely used.
- Kuyte: (Also Cuyte). A strong beer originting in 16th century France, as Quente, before becoming established in Belgium. Popular with the upper classes.
- Pecce: A cheap beer.
- Roedbier: Literally, red beer. It is not clear if this was a single style.
- Uitzet: A sour beer.
- Walgbaert or Waegebaert: Similar to Happe.
- Zwaartbier: Literally, black beer. It is not clear whether this was a single style.
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