24-25/11/2018: Day of the Oude Geuze 2018

The Lambikstoempers vzw and the Streekproducten Centrum Halle invite you to their 13th …

De Lambikstoempers & Streekproducten Centrum

Day of the Oude Geuze

on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 November 2018 at the Streekproducten Centrum Halle.

It is already the 13th time that De Lambikstoempers vzw and the Streekproducten Centrum join hands. By now it has become tradition to organise, together with the Streekproducten Centrum,  a tasting at the end of the year.

This year there are 2 producers at the Streekproducten Centrum who eagerly want to let you taste their product(s):

  • Viridis Vallis – Kris Van Damme: Brewery Viridis Vallis at Hoeilaart makes tasty, fresh regional beers, each with their own character.
  • Magic World – Dimitri or Gimberman, let’s you enjoy his surprizing, fresh drink, Gimber.

Of course the in-house produced products can also be tasted.

Be sure to come along and let you taste buds take you to overly delicious products of your region! Also discover all articles new in the assortment of the Streekproducten Centrum. During these days you can get nice ideas to shine with a delicious basket, filled with tasty regional products for the new years period.

13th Day of the Oude Geuze

This thirteenth edition takes place on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 November 2018, in the upper room of the Streekproducten Centrum, Poststraat 3A at 1500 Halle. Saturday from 10h to 18h and Sunday from 14h to 18h.

Last year more than 650 interessees, among which a large number of foreigners, found their way to the Streekproducten Centrum to (re)discover the several tasts of Lambic Beers!

Also this year we bring you an extensive number of beers of spontaneous fermentation. You can taste the beers of the following breweries / blenders: Boon (Lembeek), Cantillon (Anderlecht), De Cam (Gooik), De Troch (Wambeek), Drie Fonteinen (Beersel), Girardin (Sint-Ulriks-Kapelle), Hanssens (Dworp), Lambiek Fabriek (Ruisbroek), Lindemans (Vlezenbeek), Mort Subite (Kobbegem), Oud Beersel (Beersel), Tilquin (Rebecq) and Timmermans (Itterbeek).

Lambikstoempers Dag van de Oude Geuze

We only serve, to the joy of many beer lovers, the real Lambic beers. Namely those OUDE GEUZE & OUDE KRIEK that still contain 100 % Lambic and where the ferments found in the air of the Valley of the Senne are still used. We are therefore proud that we can provide you with the full assortment of the still active Lambic breweries and blenders from the region in one single location.

This year the visitors will again have the opportunity to taste a real Lambic, the basic brew of Geuze. We provide you with three Lambics, straight from the wooden fusts of the local Lambic brewers.

Lambikstoempers Dag van de Oude Geuze

Next to Lambic we also serve Geuze, Kriek, Faro, Raspberry beer … and one beer that isn’t spontaneous fermented: our own Servais beer, a top fermented beer brewed for the year of Servais, a festival beer with a low alcohol by volume percentage of 6,5%. Coffee and waters are also available.

All beers are sold in tasting glasses of 15 cl. This way you should be able to taste several beers of our assortment.

And yes, the entrance of the Day of the Oude Geuze is FREE. 🙂

Scoops and tasters

As with the previous editions of the Day of the Oude Geuze you can taste a number of special beers and scoops. Amongst others you can taste the Fontan-Elle (Lambiek Fabriek), Cuvée Lambikstoemper 2014, Boon Black Label 1st, 2nd én 3rd Edition, HORAL Megablend 2013 & 2017, Oude Groseille Rouge (Tilquin), BlossomGueuze (Lindemans), Boon/Mikkeller Oude Geuze Vermouth

Lambikstoempers proefplankje

For our, by now, traditional tasting board this year we selected the Lambic series of Oud Beersel to put in the spotlights. We gladly serve serve 18 months, 2 and 3 year old Lambic, Faro (not overly sweet) and rhubarb Lambic on our board. This tasting board was especially designed to let our visitors order 5 glasses at the same time and go through a exiting tasting landscape.

Issue of the Gouden Lambikstoempers 2018

Every year the Lambikstoempers vzw want to put the Lambic beers in the spotlight by issuing De Gouden Lambikstoemper.

The first Gouden Lambikstoemper in 2010 went to De Heeren van Liedekercke (Denderleeuw), the second went to Kaf’eko (Halle), the third to Boelekewis (Huizingen), the forth to De Zwaan (Dworp), the fifth to ’t Antwaerps Bierhuyske (Antwerpen), the sixth, exceptionally, to the Streekproducten Centrum (Halle), the seventh to ’t Parlement (Halle) and last year the mnagers of  Foeders (Amsterdam) came over to receive their Gouden Lambikstoemper.

Foeders wint de Gouden Lambikstoemper 2017

Based on a by now impressive list of horeca businesses and a number of criteria (drawn up after many hours of deleberations) and after an anonymous visit to the site of the businesses, De Lambikstoempers vzw will issue the Gouden Lambikstoemper for the ninth time on Sunday 25 November 2018 at 15.00 h to a horeca business that, in their eyes, spend the most attention to Lambic beers in 2018.

De Gouden Lambikstoemper 2018 is an artfull certificate with a poem made by Ludo Buggenhout.

By the way, everyone can suggest Horeca businesses throughout the whole year through our website. Who knows, you can provide us with the winner of next year. Be sure to check it out!

Meanwhile we are expecting you on Saturday 24 (from 10h to 18h) and Sunday 25 (from 14h to 18h) November 2018, in the upper room of the Streekproducten Centrum, Poststraat 3A at 1500 Halle. See you then!

Dag van de Oude Geuze 2018 flyer

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QR Dag van de Oude Geuze 2018

Pictures: The Lambikstoempers (once again) occupy ‘t Parlement

Due to the great success last year, De Lambikstoempers vzw once again occupied ‘t Parlement … in Halle, on Sunday 13 May 2018. In the context of the Flemish-Brabant Beer Month, we presented 13 beers of the Pajottenland to the general public, in order to put the richness of the Brabant beer patrimony in the spotlight. We omitted the traditional lambic beers for once and opted for smaller breweries – such as Belgoo (Sint-Pieters-Leeuw), 4 Pajot (Vlezenbeek), Vrijstaat Vanmol (Eizeringen), Dok’s (Asse), Angerik (Dilbeek), Den Herberg (Buizingen), Crystalstick (Herne) and so on. Why? Because the beers of these breweries, unfortunately, are not always known in their own Pajottenland.

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Golden Lambikstoemper 2017 is won by …

Gouden Lambikstoemper 2017 voor Foeders

… Foeders in Amsterdam!

Aided by a, by now, impressive list of horeca businesses, a number of criteria (draughted after many hours of debating) and after an anonymous on site visit, on Sunday 26 November 2017 we, The Lambikstoempers vzw, awarded our Golden Lambikstoemper for the 8th time to a business that, from our perspective, gave the most attention to the Lambic beers in 2017.

And the winner this year is the Dutch Foeders (Ceintuurbaan 257 at 1074 CZ Amsterdam), because of their very nice offer of Lambic beers (Oude Geuze, Oude Kriek …), but also Lambic in its pure form. Foeders is a neighbourhood café and a special beer concept in “De Pijp” at Amsterdam. The building is located next to the “Kabouterhuis” (gnome house) and is reportedly the oldest café of “De Pijp”. Absolutely worth a visit!

Top 3

To complete our top 3 of this year … At the 2nd place: De Kluis at Buizingen, where you can always go for a good glaas of Oude Geuze or Oude Kriek, or Lambic.

The bronze this year went to Restaurant 3 Fonteinen at Beersel, also a guarantee for a very nice offer of spontaneous fermented beers and for a while  now no longer exclusive of brewery 3 Fonteinen!

And finally our honorable mentioning of this year is for Den Herberg at Buizingen. Besides their nice offer of spontaneous fermented beers from the “Pajottenland” and the Valley of the Senne, they also started to experiment with brewing their own Lambic. A very noble initiative. Congratulations to all laureates!

Winner 2018

Who will win our Golden Lambikstoemper next year? You can contribute to that!
How? By submitting your favourite for the Golden Lambikstoemper 2018 through our web site. And yes, You can do that right now!

The Golden Lambikstoemper is a artfull certificate with some poetry of Leo Lintermans.

Gouden Lambikstoemper 2017

Look at our list of all our previous winners!

Lambic café list

How do we collect the nominations every year and elect the final winner of our Golden Lambikstoemper? It is based on a, by now, extensive list of Lambic café’s and horeca buisinesses with a special attention for our Pajottenland’s pride of spontaneous fermented beers. And yes, this list is from now on available on-line!

Even more: if you yourself have some suggestions to complete our list, you can always submit them through redactie@lambikstoempers.be. We will try to add your suggestions as soon as possible, of course after an inspection of their offer of spontaneous fermented beers.

Who knows you can determine the winner of our Golden Lambikstoemper 2018, traditionally awarded at our Day of the Old Geuze at Streekproducten Centrum in Halle.

Dag van de Oude Geuze 2017