Breweries
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Cantillon Quintessence 2025: A Gourmet Beer and Food Pairing Event
One of the lambic beer world’s premier events is the hallowed Brasserie Cantillon’s Quintessence, a gourmet beer and food pairing event first held in November 1998. Quintessence became a biennial event from the 2008 edition onwards. Cantillon really puts on a show for Quintessence, featuring rare vintage beers, as well as more recent and interesting…
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HORAL’s Oude Geuze Megablend 2024
Belgium’s Toer de Geuze, which is a biennial open house at most of Belgium’s lambic breweries and blenderies, was held the weekend of May 4-5, 2024. It was a great success, with an estimated 20,000 attendees, despite cold and wet weather on the Saturday. Toer de Geuze is organized by HORAL, which is The High…
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Sang Bleu: a new star in the Brasserie Cantillon lineup
Brasserie Cantillon, Brussels’ beloved lambic brewery, has been crafting a plethora of interesting and superb lambic beers for many years. Cantillon and its brewer, Jean Van Roy, continue to do numerous experiments with fruited lambics, as well as lambics infused with grapes and berries, and other things. Some of the experimental lambics are repeated on…
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Gueuzerie Tilquin: Toer de Geuze 2024, the “Family Tree Project”, and more!
Gueuzerie Tilquin has announced its plans for Toer de Geuze 2024, and the revered lambic blendery-now also a lambic brewery-should be a great place to spend a few hours during the weekend of May 4 and 5. Toer de Geuze is an open house at most of the lambic breweries and lambic blenderies in Belgium’s…
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A Visit to Publitasting Lambic Blendery
While most of Belgium’s lambic producers are located in Brussels and to the areas to the south and west of the city, in the Payottenland and Zenne River Valley, there are some lambic blenders that are outside of that region. Geert Demuynck and his Publitasting Lambic Blendery purchases lambic that has been aged in barrels…
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Brouwerij Kestemont joins The High Council for Artisanal Lambic Beers, and Toer de Geuze 2024
HORAL, The High Council for Artisanal Lambic Beers, has just added another new member. Brouwerij Kestemont, which I wrote about last year on these pages in this previous article here was inducted as a member of HORAL on Thursday, January 11, 2024. Brouwerij Kestemont opened on the same grounds as the old Brouwerij Goossens in…