Cristal Alken beer is a Pils, very light, produced and marketed in Belgium (Alken-Maes brewery) . It is an extremely refreshing beer through which one can perceive a subtle and fine point of bitterness. It is a beer that goes very well with fish. Although the founding family of the brewery began its activity in 1881, the Alken Crystal was brewed from 1923 and its name definitively found only from 1929.