Here is an update on our 2017 Tour programme.
TOUR 86 BELGIAN BEER FROM THE WOOD – Wednesday 3 May to Monday 8 May 2017 We have 5 rooms left on this Tour. Here are the latest additions to this Tour:
- We have arranged a visit to beer cafe Walhalla in Roeselare which has a big list of quality beers with plenty of lambics and other special beers to choose from.
- We are visiting top lambic café In de Verzekering Tegen de Grote Dorst (The Insurance Against Great Thirst) who are now offering beers from the newest lambic blender, Raf Souvereyns at Bokkereyder. You’ll get a chance here to try Raf’s blends which the beer world is raving about. Read More.
TOUR 87 TRAPPIST & ABBEY PILGRIMAGE – Thursday 17 August to Tuesday 22 August 2017 – Ghent Only 2 more rooms left on this Tour. We have posted up more details on visits on this Tour including:
- Taverne “In den Rozenkrans” or ‘The rosary’ café within the walls of the Vlierbeek Abbey at Kessel-Lo near Leuven which offers Westmalle Dubbel and Chimay Tripel on draught and some Abbey beers too.
- Fabulous new café Heerlijk at Raversijde near Ostende which offers every Trappist beer produced in the world. The owners are passionate about Trappist beers and hunt high and low for obscure Belgian and world-Trappist beer, so here is the place to try rare beers hard to find elsewhere.
- A tour and beer tasting at Van Steenberge Brewery in Ertvelde for a look at the major new works at this already vast brewery. The new works include a smart new tasting room, Bar Baptist where we will have a taste of their Abbey beer Augustijn. Read More
TOUR 88 THE HOP HARVEST TOUR – Thursday 14 September to Monday 18 September – Lo-Reninge If you would like to register your interest in this Tour please email me and I’ll happily put you on the interested list and let you know in advance when we launch the price of this Tour later in the year. Here are some more details of places we aim to visit on this Tour:
- Eutropius Brewery in Heule who brew with several hop varieties. Their mighty 10%abv Vinkenier features Cascade hops and their St. Tabarnak beer, a collaboration with Canadian extreme metal band Kataklysm is brewed with magnum hops.
- Gaverhopke Brewery in an ancient farmstead in Waregem. Bruno and Gudrun have a brewery, café and keep small animals here. We can have a look at the new brewery and have a taste of their beer, hopefully on the relaxing terrace, with or without their tiny pony, pig and mini-goats.
- Ferme Brewery Beck in Bailleul which has being making uber-hoppy farmhouse beer Hommelpap since 1994. The beer is unpasteurised, contains no preservatives and is made from barley and hops grown on Mr Beck’s farm. We’ll have a tour of his hop fields, brewery and a taste of his unique beer.
- Cafe De Snoek, (The Pike) in Alveringem attached to the Museum of Thirst in the Great War which has a beer menu of 150 choices. Read More
TOUR 89 BEER & BATTLEFIELDS – PASSCHENDAELE 1917 CENTENARY TOUR – Sunday 29 October to Friday 3 November 2017 If you are interested in beer and battlefields this is the tour for you and is guaranteed to be like no other battlefield Tour. If you would like to register your interest in this Tour please email me and I’ll happily put you on the interested list and let you know in advance when we launch the price of this Tour later in the year, before it goes live on the web site. Read More
TOUR 90 CHRISTMAS IN ANTWERP 2017 – Friday 22 December to Wednesday 27 December 2017 If you would like to register your interest in this Tour please email me and I’ll happily put you on the interested list and let you know in advance when we launch the price of this Tour later in the year, before it goes live on the web site. Here’s what we have added to this Tour itinerary recently:
- We are pleased to announce that we will be spending Christmas Day in a brewery – the Slot Oostende in Goes in the Netherlands. We will have a brewery tour and a luxury buffet in their beautiful cosy restaurant. Slot Oostende brew a range of their own beers but now brew beers for Emelisse Brewery too, so we can enjoy Emelisse’s superb big-hitting beers on Christmas Day such as the Imperial Russian Stout, Espresso Stout and the Black IPA. Read More.
For those of you who travel to Belgium independently, or if you just want to know more about beer cafes and beer tourism in Belgium, check out my Belgian City Bar Guide online maps which now cover the whole of the country. Read More.
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