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25-26/11/2017: 12th Day of the Oude Geuze

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De Lambikstoempers vzw and the Streekproducten Centrum Halle invite you at their

Dag van de Oude Geuze 2017

12th Day of the Oude Geuze

on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 November 2017 in the Streekproducten Centrum Halle

It is already the 12th time we collaborate, so this is becoming a tradition. As a annual habit we organise a tasting with regional products near the year end, also the ideal occasion to get ideas for a gift for the year end.

This year we invited 2 guests at the Streekproducten Centrum:

  • Sven Deman of WHERE BEER MEETS CHOCOLATE specialised in combining of chocolat & beer: during this open door you can taste beer and chocolat. This results in a surprizing blend of 2 different products.
  • Johan Pevernagie of MATERIA GIN will get the visitors acquainted with his 4 tastes of different gins and if needed will give the explanation about the combinations with different tonics.
  • The regional products produced in-house can also be tasted of course. New this year is a paté made of Oude Geuze & Kriek 3 Fonteinen.

12th Day of the Oude Geuze

This twelfth edition takes place on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 November 2017, in the upper room of the Streekproducten Centrum, Poststraat 3A at 1500 Halle.

Saturday from 10.00 h to 18.00 h and Sunday from 14.00 h to 18.00 h.

Lasr year more than 650 interested people, among whitch a great number of foreigners, found their way to the Streekproducten Centrum to (re)discover the different tastes of the Lambic beers!

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

Dag van de Oude Geuze 2015

We only serve, to joy of a horde of beer lovers, the real lambic beers. Only those that are made with 100% lambic  to make a OUDE GEUZE & OUDE KRIEK and with the yeast in the air of the Valley of the Senne. We are really proud to offer you in one location the full assortment of the 12 Lambic brewers and Geuze Blenders still left and a new one from the region.

Also this year the visitors get the chance to taste a real Lambic, the base brew of the geuze. We provide three Lambics, directly from the wooden casks of the local lambic brewers.

Besides Lambic we also serve Oude Geuze, Oude Kriek, Faro, Raspberry beer, … and two beers that actually don’t belong in this assortment: our own Servais beer, a top fermented beer brewed in the occasion of the year of Servais, a festival beer with a low alcohol by volume of 6,5%. And the high alcohol variant, Servais Tripel. Also coffee and soft drinks are available.

Dag van de Oude Geuze 2015

All beers are served in tasting glasses of 15 cl. This way you can taste more different beers.

FREE entry to the Day of the Oude Geuze.

Primeurs & tasters

As with the previous editions you can taste a number of special beers and scoops at the Day of the Oude Geuze. Among others you can taste the GingerGueuze of Lindemans, Cuvée Lambikstoemper, Boon Black Label 1st Edition, Megablend 2013, …

Dag van de Oude Geuze 2015

This year we choose the Vat-series of brewery Boon for our (now) traditional “proefplankje”. The beers we serve on our slat are Vat-bieren numbers 91, 92, 108, 109 and 110. This tadting slat was specially designed to allow the visitor to order 5 glasses at the same time to take a trip through the exiting tasting landscape !

Golden Lambikstoemper

Every year the Lambikstoempers vzw want to put an extra focus on the Lambic beers by awarding the Golden Lambikstoemper.
The first Golden Lambikstoemper in 2010 went to De Heeren van Liedekercke, the second to Kaf’eko in Halle, the third to Boelekewis in Huizingen, the forth to De Zwaan in Dworp, the fifth to ’t Antwaerps Bierhuyske in Antwerp, the sixth, exeptionally to the Streekproducten Centrum in Halle and last year the managers of  ’t Parlement received their Gouden Lambikstoemper.

Based on a by now extensive list of horeca busisnisses and a number of criteria and after an anonimous on site visit De Lambikstoempers vzw will award the Golden Lambikstoemper for the eighth time on Sunday 26 November 2017 at 15.00 uur to a horeca business that, according to us, gave a special attention to the Lambic beers in 2017.

Wanne met Gouden Lambikstoemper

The Golden Lambikstoemper is an artful certificate with some poetry made by Leo Lintermans! By the way every one can suggest Horeca businesses through our website.

But first of all come and taste our Pajottenland’ pride, on Saturday 25 (10h-18h) and Sunday 26 November 2017 (14h-18h) at the Streekproducten Centrum Halle!

Dag van de Oude Geuze 2017

Lambikstoempers Beer weekend wins bronze medal

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End 2016 already for the fifth time the Beer Awards Digital Festival was organised by the guys of the beer website www.beerawards.be, a now burly database on all Belgian beers that ever anywhere won a prize. And yes, this year we won a prize too! 😀

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Voting was done throughout the whole month of December 2016. On your favorite beers, divided in several  categories, but also on your … ‘Beer Event of the year’. And it is in this categorie that our Beer weekend – invariably organised during the last full weekend of August – won a bronze medal !

Bronze medal

Unfortunately we couldn’t be present at the ceremony, on Tuesday 7 February 2017 at Jilles Beer & Burgers in Bruges, but in meantime we received our award through digital post. And we’re proud of it! 😉

Beer weekend bronze medal 2016

This way you can also hear it from someone else: our Beer weekend – this year on 26-27 August 2017 – is certainly worth a while! 🙂

In Belgium there are only 2 other events that – according to the 15.000 voters of the #BADF16 – are more worthwhile and these are the “Weekend van het Volkscafé” (gold) and the Brussels Beer Challenge (silver). But of course not all the voters already visited our Beer weekend, otherwise those events wouldn’t have had a chance. Isn’t it? (Just joking guys, congratulations to the other winners!)

The Lambikstoemper

Again this year our blogger Kristof Verhasselt won an award with his beerblog Lambikstoemper.wordpress.com. This edition he received the silver medal in the category ‘Beer website of the Year’. Congratulations! And erh … next time you again go for gold, man! 😉

Let’s drink to that. Cheers!

> Look at all laureats of #BADF16

> #BADF16: a report of a fantastic evening

6th HORAL Lambic Award goes to Dominiek Geers

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On Monday 12 December 2016 Horal vzw (High Council for Artisanal Lambic Beers) handed out the Lambic Award for the 6th time. This award is handed out to a person that in a special way defended the interests of the traditional lambic beers sector and the promotion of Oude Geuze and Oude Kriek.

HORAL Lambic Award 2016

This year the Winner was the 51-year old Dominiek Geers, manager of Geers Drinks at Oostakker, where all existing geuze producers from the Pajottenland and the Valley of the Senne are continuously represented.

Lambik ambassador

“The members of the High Council for Artisanal Lambic beers surely appreciate the dedication of the family Geers regarding the promotion and sale of traditional lambic beers, and our ‘Oude Geuze’ and ‘Oude Kriek’ in special”, according to HORAL-president Frank Boon in the visitor’s center ‘De Lambiek’ at Alsemberg, where the ceremony took place.

“In this respect, Dominiek is an example for the beer retail trade. We couldn’t imagine a better Lambic ambassador this year. That is why the members of the High Courncil unanimously awarded the Lambic Award to Dominiek this year.”

HORAL Lambic Award 2016

Previous winners

Dominiek Geers can be proud of this award, which in recent years went to Edgar Winderickx (late lambic brewer), Hugo Casaer (former mayor of Beersel), Tim Webb (British beer writer), Stene Isacsson (manager of beer restaurant Akkurat Stockholm) and Daisy Claeys (manageress of café ‘t Bruges Bear Bruges).

Geers Drinks

The family Geers is the sixth generation in the beer world, first as a brewer (until halfway World War II), then as bottler and (after the war) as beer supplier for its own cafes. From 1960 on Hubert Geers, the father of Dominiek, began distribution to a wider audience and deliveries in the Ghent region.

Dranken Geers

From 1980 on the offer of Geers Drinks was greatly expanded and they also paid increasing attention to specialty beers. Because of the growing interest of young clientele for Oude Geuze and Oude Kriek, from the turn of the century Dominiek decides to further broaden its range with the full range of Lambic beers. Assisted by his wife Vera and children Bert & Leen, Dominiek was able to expand his business to almost the whole of Flanders and Brussels. In 2010 he even started an export department.

Those who wants to see it all for themselves, can visit the Ledergemstraat 7 at 9041 Oostakker. More information and schedule: www.drankengeers.be

Photo’s: HDD / HORAL / Beertourism.com – Source: HORAL