- Pauwel Kwak
Infobox Beer
name = Kwak
caption = A Kwak beer served in its traditional glass
brewery =Brewery Bosteels
style = Amber
year = 1980s
abv = 8.0%
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ibu =Pauwel Kwak (pronounced Audio-IPA|Pauwel_kwak.ogg|/paʊʌl kwɑk/), or simply Kwak, is an amber, 8% abv
Belgian beer , brewed by the family-ownedBrewery Bosteels inBuggenhout , Belgium. It is named after an 18th century innkeeper and brewer, Pauwel Kwak.The beer is filtered before packaging in bottles and kegs. [ [http://www.bottledbeer.co.uk/index.html?beerid=997 The Oxford Bottled Beer Database ] ]
Glass
As with other Belgian beers, Kwak has a branded glass with its own distinctive shape. The Kwak glass has attracted attention because it is a round-bottomed,
hour-glass shaped glass that resembles a stirrup cup [ [http://www.beerhunter.com/documents/19133-000791.html Michael Jackson's Beer Hunter - Down on your knees to bless monks' top ale ] ] or 'yard of ale', which is held upright in a wooden stand—rather like a piece of old scientific apparatus. The brewery claim the glass was designed by the innkeeper Pauwel Kwak in the early 19th century for coachmen, [ [http://www.bestbelgianspecialbeers.be/main_eng.html Welcome to Bosteels Brewery ] ] though the beer and the glass were launched in the 1980s. [Michael Jackson, Great Beers of Belgium, Regional Specialities, pp 277-278, ISBN 9053730125]References
External links
* [http://www.bestbelgianspecialbeers.be/ The homepage of the Bosteels brewery]
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