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Sigel’s Offers “One of the Five Best Beers of the World”: Piraat Ale from Van Steeneberge Brewery

Posted on July 2nd, 2009 10:14am by Nancy Nichols
Filed under Beverages, beer

Hello,beer lovers. Sigel’s has an exclusive deal for you. The beer news according to Jasper Russo:

“Only 10 of these special 9-liter bottles are allocated for the entire state of Texas. To reserve your bottle please contact Bruce Calhoun at bcalhoun@sigels.com or 214/350-1271. The Ale will be available for pickup at the Sigel’s store of your choice in mid-July.”

How much does it cost?

“ $294.99 for a 9-Liter bottle. Regularly, $324.99”

Tell us about the beer.

“A trippel by strength, an IPA by history. Triple means that the brewer has used three times the normal amount of barley malt, thus starting with more starches, getting more sugars after cooking, and finally more alcohol after a long fermentation. In the 17th and 18th century, a strong ale like Piraat was highly prized by the seafaring captains for its keeping qualities and its high and healthy food value. The daily distribution of a pint of this ale kept the pirates in good health and gave them the spirit to survive the hard life on the sea. 10.5% alcohol.”

Does it have a subtle haze?

“Piraat’s powerful glow builds up from inside. Deep golden with a subtle haze. Lots of hops and malt and a mild sweetness. Reminiscent of bread dough, spices and tropical fruits. Piraat is a great food beer and works well in combination with fish and meat. Often appreciated as an after dinner beer and cigar lovers claim there is no better beer to enjoy with a cigar.”

8 Comments to “Sigel’s Offers “One of the Five Best Beers of the World”: Piraat Ale from Van Steeneberge Brewery”

Beer Snob @ July 2nd, 2009 at 12:06 pm

What’s more funny? The price or that Nancy posted the press release as-is w/o commentary?

Water, sugar, barley, malt and hops costs how much?
babyarm @ July 2nd, 2009 at 1:20 pm

That roughly works out to a $72 6-pack.

Basically netting you half a batch of a standard homebrew production (full is 5gallons). For 10.5% ABV you’d probably need roughly $30 worth of raw material to get the brew done. $20 if you are buying in bulk.

If you got this I would assume you would want to rack it to a half keg and then carb it up unless you have some big party of beer nerds. If you go to that expense then purging your keg with something like argon would not be the worst idea ever.

However just a tiny bit of googling finds 750ml of this beer at less than 10 bucks. Nice try siegels.
Fonz @ July 2nd, 2009 at 3:55 pm

Just bought a bottle at whole foods for $4.59
Nancy Nichols @ July 2nd, 2009 at 4:28 pm

My questions were my commentary.
Jasper Russo @ July 2nd, 2009 at 5:25 pm

We have sold out our original allocation and have a waiting list of customers while we try to obtain additional supplies.
mikenfrisco @ July 2nd, 2009 at 6:56 pm

A friend of mine once made his own beer but accidentally put in too much sugar. I think I drank 8 beers and couldn’t walk. Most beers are overrated, except for Canadian. I’ve spent plenty of time in Canada on business and it’s the bee’s knees.
Beer Snob @ July 2nd, 2009 at 8:18 pm

Baby Arm – Danke

Fonz – ha ha

Nancy – Try harder to not look like a corporate shill

Jasper – you could buy a lot of good weed for that kinda dough. And it would last longer. IJS.

mikenfrisco – you need to get (of Frsico) more.
babyarm @ July 3rd, 2009 at 12:57 pm

I’d also like to know who ranks this as a top 5 anything? RateBeer has it in the 77th percentile of its classification.