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04/06/2016: A day in Bruges

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The Lambikstoempers vzw organizes …

Brugge

a day in Bruges on Saturday 4 june 2016

We meet at 9:45 am at the entrance of Bryggja Brewery, Moerkerkebrug 3 at 8340 Moerkerke.

The programm:

1. Visit to the artisan microbrewery Bryggja Brewery

It started out as a hobby. In 2012 four brewing friends decided to enter the  Brouwland Beer competition with their tripel. Out of a selection of more than 90 beers their Bryggja was elected the best Belgian hobby beer by a professional jury (among which yours truly). The beginning of a great adventure! Meanwhile, they found a building in Moerkerke and in the spring of 2015 the brewing equipment was installed. Time to take a visit …

Bryggja Brewery

At Bryggja we have a tour of +/- 2 hours, 3 tasters included!
Afterwards we go to the center of Bruges (a drive of +/- 20 min.).

Parking tip for Bruges: use the large parking at the front of the station, it’s fairly cheap and you have a free bus to the center with your parking ticket. There are also  parkings closer to our next stop, but they are quite expensive!

2. Meal at brasserie Bourgogne des Flandres

Belgian classics and the nicest terrace of Bruges (as they themselves claim). The address: Kartuizerinnenstraat 6 at 8000 Brugge.

Bourgogne des Flandres

3. Visit of the brewery Bourgogne des Flandres

The Tour starts at 2:30 pm, at the Kartuizerinnenstraat 6 at 8000 Brugge.

We enter right in the middle of the brewing process. Most likely they are filtering at that time. Brewer Thomas Vandelanotte guides us around the plant, telling us about the brewing process and he lets us taste of lambic, the beer that is brewed locally and the  blend Bourgogne des Flandres. And for De Lambikstoempers hij even presents an extra!

For the ones who want to taste something else afterwards, we also go to …

Brugs Beertje

4. ’t Brugs Beertje

A pleasant and cozy beer café in the center of Bruges with 300 different Belgian beers. Daisy Claeys, manageres of the café, received the Lambic Award 2015 at the end of last year. This award is given to a person who has distinguised himselve (or herselve) in a particular way in the defense of the intrests of the traditional lambic beers and the promotion of Oude Geuze and Oude Kriek. The address: Kemelstraat 5 at 8000 Brugge.

Brugge map

Register

Registration is mandatory through proeverij@lambikstoempers.be, indicating the number of people!
Attention: the number of places is limited!

Participation: 22 euro for Lambikstoempers members, 25 euro for Zythos members and 28 euro for all others (The participation fee is for both brewery visits and the tatsers at these breweries, the lunch and the tasting at ‘t Brugs Beertje aren”t incuded).

Hoping to meet you at this event,
Kind Regards,
Johan “Wanne” Madalijns,
President De Lambikstoempers VZW

5th consecutive gold for Brouwerij Boon

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Frank en Jos Boon klinken

In Lembeek they can truly be proud, because never before anyone won gold at the World Beer Cup 5 times in a row, the most important beer competition in the world which is organized every two years by the American Brewers Association.

All beers are invariably blind-tasted. So the 253 jurors from 31 countries only know which beers have won at the closing ceremony. And the gold in the category ‘Belgian-Style Sour Ale’ thus was won by Oude Geuze Boon Black Label. Moreover silver went to Oude Kriek Cuvée René of Lindemans brewery (Vlezenbeek), while bronze went to Red Angel of Wicked Weed (Asheville, USA).

5x gold

But no les then 6.596 beers of 1.907 different breweries from 55 countries participated in the World Beer Cup 2016. And this year brewery Boon had an unprecedented performance by being the only one in the world to win gold 5 consecutive times.

  • In 2008 with Oude Geuze Boon
  • In 2010 with Oude Geuze Mariage Parfait
  • In 2012 with Oude Geuze Boon
  • In 2014 with Oude Kriek Boon
  • In 2016 with Oude Geuze Black Label

“The compettition has become extremely tough”, commented a proud Frank Boon. “In comparison with 1996 the number of beers that participate is more then tenfold. Of the nearly 6.600 beers that participated at the World Beer Cup 2016, 91 originated from Belgium. Three Belgian beers won a medal, including our Oude Geuze Black Label.”

> tasting of Boon Black Label

Jos en Frank Boon

New: Oude Geuze Boon Vat 79

Those who participated at our tasting of Boon beers of 8 May 2015 tasted this beer for the first time. One year later, since end of April 2016, Boon Oude Geuze Vat 79 Mono Blend was released to the public.

This one consists of 90% Lambic from fust nr. 79 – the oldest of the brewery, made in 1883 – and 10% of young Lambic. The Lambic of Vat 79 has matured for more than 3 years on fust. After botteling and more than one year further maturation in the bottle, this Vat 79 Mono Blend is now ready to be drunk.

With an attenuation of 93% this Oude Geuze isn’t completely dry, but supported by 9% alc. by vol. it can be called rather ‘massive’. This unique bottling, brewed on 19 and 20 Oktober 2011 and botteled on 17 December 2014, is in limited supply, among other at the Streekproductencentrum (Postweg 3A at 1500 Halle).

> tasted Boon Oude Geuze Vat 79

Boon Oude Geuze Vat 79