Catalogue no. BBG086

Mort Subite

Brewery: Brouwerij Mort Subite
Beer style: Lambic
Glass style: Goblet
Place: Kobbegem (Flanders)

Curator’s Notes

I paid 50 cents for this Mort Subite glass at a brocante. It is a straightforward, generously proportioned goblet, with a rounded bowl carried on a short stem and broad foot.

The glass itself may be restrained, but the name carries a wonderfully complicated piece of Belgian beer history.

Mort Subite means “sudden death” and originated not at the present brewery in Kobbegem, but with a Brussels café where customers played a dice game that could be settled with a decisive final throw. The café adopted the nickname À la Mort Subite and its owner, Théophile Vossen, also used it for his beer. The De Keersmaeker brewery later acquired the Mort Subite name and applied it to its own lambic beers. So the famous Brussels café and the beer remain historically entwined, but they should not be confused. This glass belongs to the beer.

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