For centuries, the legal definition of lambic beer or geuze stipulated that the beer must result from 100% spontaneous fermentation. However that was amended in 1993 by a law that was sponsored by Interbrew, owners of Belle Vue brewery, and many, many others including Stella Artois (a.k.a batteur de femme). ...
Since opening in 2011, the products on offer have been beers, ciders and perries that are not well-known brands. They are produced by small artisan brewers using traditional methods and pure ingredients. Although these are alcoholic drinks, they are consumed with the primary purpose of enjoying the taste rather than effecting a mood change.
We sell locally-produced beers on draught and in bottle and also bottled beers originating in Germany, Belgium, Norway, the Netherlands and the U.S.A. We offer up to eight rotating cask beers mainly from local micro-breweries. The draught beers are sold in pint and half pint glasses for consumption on the premises, and in bag-in-box format in sizes from three litres (more than five pints) to 20 litres ( approximately 36 pints) for consumption off the premises.
We also offer beers in bottle from U.K. micros and U.S.A. craft brewers plus specialists styles such as Koelsch, Duesseldorfer Altbier, Bavarian unfiltered and unpasteurised kellerbiers & smoked beers, Flemish and Walloonian (Belgian) strong pale ales, Trappist ales, wheat beers, lambic (lambiek) and fruit beers, organic stouts and pale ales from Denmark and The Netherlands. All of these can be sampled in the shop.
