First thing we noticed when we arrived. The three Boon barrels. |
A big inflated puppet sitting on a Lambic barrel did invite
us to enter the brewery. |
Frank Boon. |
 Draught
Kriek Lambic and Lambic Boon. |
Poured out. |
Great colors. |
The mash kettle. |
 Surprise
! The mash kettle was full with hot wort at that moment, and in
full operation! |
The malt- and wheat storage place upstairs. |
The big malt crush machine situated just next to the storage place. |
The coolship. |
 Live
brewing activity at that moment ! |
The mash operation has just been finished.
Here you can notice the drawing off of the wort to the cooking kettle. |
 The
coolship again. |
Warm wort. Sweet and tasty malt tea this is. |
 Big
lager tanks. |
Centrifuge. |
Filter equipment from Velo manufacturer. |
Three yeasting kettles.
|
Huge lagertanks. |
Yeasting kettles ?? Yes, but ofcourse not used for producing
Lambic. These are used for fermenting the top-fermented Duivelsbier! |
An overall view of the barrel stocking place. Impressing at
least. |
 Orange
painted not for decoration purposes, but to discourage leaking. |
The wooden barrels were huge. |
The barrel on the right side contained some 3 different Lambic
brews. Brews being number 30-31 and 32. |
 Amazing
huge barrels !!! And that smell !!! |
 Modern
bottling machines. |
 The
big bottle-washing machine. |
 The
machine responsible for attaching the metallic "muselets"
on top of the bottles. |
 The
corking machine. |
The complete Boon beer collection. |
Persconferentie
