“‘Brouwer met een bizar kantje, brouwer ‘met een hoek af’. Brewer with a bizarre side, a brewer ‘on the edge’. So said an article in De Zytholoog magazine about D’Oude Maalderij in Izegem recently. The article in question recognises the achievement of brewer Jef ‘Hiq’ Pirens being made a knight of the mashing paddle at last year’s Belgian Beer Weekend, the feast of Gambrinus and Sint-Arnoldus. What is amazing is that this accolade was awarded a mere 8 years after releasing his first beer Qantelaar in September 2012.”
Read the full blog post here: https://pauldav1963.wordpress.com/2021/01/11/a-beer-with-jef-pirens-doude-maalderij/