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| Kriek||cherry|| 240 grams per liter = 2 pounds per US gallon||frozen whole fruits, 8 weeks - crop dependent
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| Saint Laminus|| merlot and cabernet-franc Merlot grapes||240 grams per liter = 2 pounds per US gallon||Fresh, whole, and NO longer than 8 weeks or acidity from the skins develop.
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| Rosé de Gambrinus||raspberry||300 (grams per liter) = 2.5 pounds per US gallon||frozen whole fruits, 8 weeks - crop dependent
Iris is different than [[Lambic]]. It is only made with malt of the pale ale type (giving a more amber color to the beer) conserves the typical flavor of the spontaneous fermentation, the complex aromas and the vinous taste. The hopping is different too. Lambic is made with 100% aged hops, for the Iris they use 50% of aged hops and 50% of fresh hops. The latter cause a superb acidity, the former, due to their tannins, enable to conserve the beer while preserving all its qualities.
After two years in the barrel, the Iris undergoes a second fresh dry hopping two weeks before the bottling. A linen bag, filled with fresh hops, is soaked in the beer a linen bag for two weeksbefore the bottling. This "cold hopping" (or dry hopping ) gives the beer a more intense flavor and makes the smell and the taste more bitter.
Iris is brewed only once every season and all the beers come from the same brewing. This is why the beer is dated. The second fermentation at bottling is obtained by adding fresh wort.