Some quick news...
Did you already notice the participation of Urthel*?
Rochefort 8 and 10 'aged' ( ref date of bottling) thanks to Benny Vanhecke !
La Trappe brings a bio-trappist PUUR and the Quadrupel on OAK, bottled in 37.5cl
2 beers Estrella Damm from Barcelona at Corsendonk*, including the El Bulli-Inedit
At our spontaneous fermentation, this year also Ltd Edition Oude Geuze Timmermans and the new Boon kriek Mariage Parfait.
Dilewyns* will have it's Christmas beer again (probably 2010) and a new honeybeer at Lesage*
At the softdrinks, the 2 table beers 'Pilsen' and 'Oud bier' (Strubbe) and downstairs in the halls at the BAB-stand of course BAB 401 on draft!
Tony
First 121 beers
Now all breweries and firms are known, they deliver their first beer-names. We know already 117 of them. They are definitive for the Trappist-abbeys, where you surely have to look at the bottling-dates and something specials from La Trappe. Other breweries and firms putting together their final brews are Huyghe - Du Bocq - Scheldebrouwerij - Druide* - Van Steenberge - Caulier - Jessenhofke* - Lindemans and all other brewers of spontaneous fermentation. Also Montaigu* - Roman - De Koninck - Malheur - Corsendonk* - Contreras - Lesage* - Danny - De Graal and Dilewyns* have decided the beers they will present at the 4th BAB-festival in Bruges. Check and find out the novelties or 'primeurs'.
Tony
Participations 2010
Just 6 months to go: September 11 and 12 the 4th Bruges Beerfest. Participations are going fast! Lots of known breweries and beerfirms* we like very much from earlier years, will be there again. Yet allready 4 new participants: Hof ten Dormaal - Scheldebrouwerij - De Graal - Corsendonk*. Hot news and further communication to be followed on this site.
Tony Dauwens
Charity! Poverello + De Varens + La Trappe
The independent beer tasters of Bruges support Poverello in Bruges every year. These people are having a hard time making ends meet every day. The profit made from the returned BAB-tasting glasses, is turned into a lovely meal offered to those Poverello people. So you can help to fund this initiative too!
‘De Varens’ is an institute for individual education. They’ve found a new place to stay in Heist on the premises of the old fishing school. There they will start their educational program for youngsters with autism in the accommodated buildings. Every year ‘de Varens’ also organizes a week-out-of-school for all their pupils. During this week the children can choose out of a range of activities to spend this week together. This event is financially tough. Because of the BAB charity action, last year was a wonderful experience. The children went to the movies, to the gym and drove along the coast in go-carts. The BAB received a photo-album and lots of gratitude for their financial contribution. For 2009 the BAB hopes to do something similar.
Also, the Dutch Trappist brewery Koningshoeven exists 125 years! In honour of this special occasion, they have developed La Trappe Isid'Or, named after the first brewer of La Trappe, Father Isidorius. The money made by selling this beer will go entirely to a brandnew Monastry in Uganda. That's why BAB is delighted to serve this beer at the third Beer Festival of Bruges.
Tony Dauwens