Came back from Bruges and what a beautiful city it is. It is amazing how literally every building is close to 450 years old. Also, I visited brewery "De halve maan" (The half moon). Here are some pictures that I thought I would share with you.
This was part of the old brewing routine. It was used to fill bottles up. The opposite of what most of you do.
This thing is a beer cooler from 1937, so it's pretty cool.
The beer needs to cool down to 15 degrees centigrade for the fermentation process. The beer would run on the outside of this thing with cool water running through it.
These are vats of 6000 liters where the beer could mature for ~6 weeks. The funny thing is that these things were cleaned without the use of any machines. Usually boys around 16 years old went into these, cleaned them, and got tipsy from all the alcoholic vapours in them.
Here of course the reward.
And I got myself one of these beauties.
The Brugse Zot Blond was a nice beer that I enjoyed more than the Brugse Zot Dubbel I got a couple of days ago. I think both the Zots are not very full, but they have a nice bitter and spicy taste to them.
I didn't have the Straffe Hendrik Tripel, but did have the Quadrupel at 12 mid-day (the gf got a little tipsy of it
). A nice dark beer which also has the spicy taste of the Zot but with a very full, though soft body.
Unfortunately the "Brugs Beertje" was closed, but we visited the "Bierbrasserij" which had around 400 beers. The meat I had there was even made in beer.
I had a Augustijn Grand Cru there (good, but not too special imo) and a Kwak which I never had before but I was very curious about. The Kwak is sweet but in a good way. A very distinct beer that I really liked.
