From craft brewer to beer lover
One of the best known and most appreciated Trappist abbeys in Belgium is Orval. The fabulous, world renowned single beer is brewed within the monastery’s walls, just 2 hours’ drive from Brussels, almost on the border with Luxembourg.
For this cold season, we’ll serve you hot soup with Saint-Monon’s white beer: Belle Famenne!
When brewer Pierre Jacob begun brewing at 26, he was considered one of the youngest in Belgium. Belgium possessed more than 3,000 breweries before World War One.
Seven years ago, a civil servant named Stijn David was working in the finance sector when he decided to change his career to something beer related.
The story (or prequel) begins in October 1994 at 22 Grand Rue in Bouillon. The building in which the future brewery will be installed is home to Nathalie Pougin’s homonymous grocery store “Marché de Nathalie”.
Kuringen, a peaceful village close to Hasselt, where the local inhabitant sits in the village pub under the church tower drinking a pint, probably not knowing that he’s in one of the rare villages in Flanders where biological beers are brewed.
