The entrance towards the Stadsfeestzaal. Beer journalist Bob Magerman ready to enter.

 

Immediately after entering, we already spotted some commercials hanging on the wall inside the entrance hall. This is the beautiful commercial for the next "Bierjutterij" from local Zythos branch DOB.

 

The income hall. Cash register glasses. 3 Euro per glass and refunded when bringing back.

 

Cash register tokens. 1 Euro per token. Zythos members got 2 free tokens.

 

A tombola was organised.

 

The beershop.

 

When buying the glass one got the blue ZBF information booklet.

 

In the middle of the entrance hall there was the Zythos member administration stand. in the middle you can clearly see Casimir Elsen, editor in chief of the Zythos magazine "De Zytholoog".

 

The ZBF Fellow workers could be recognized by their blue ZBF-shirt carrying the red colored ZBF-emblem.
On the right we see Luc Smekens who is member of the Beerfestival team. Needless to say they did a marvelous job !

 

We obtained our tokens and glasses. So it was time to enter the actual beerfestival room.
Already full packed this Saturday around 15pm

 

My first beertasting. Picobrewery Alvinne.
Davy Spiessens, Jeffry Castelein and masterbrewer Glenn Castelein.

 

The Alvinne beerchoice.

 

The Dolle Brouwers stand. Els (wife of masterbrewer Kris Herteleer) posing. The beer in front is the new lacto-acid Oerbier.

 

Great De Dolle commercials. It's Eastern time so the yellow colors were dominant. Nice yellow De Dolle Brouwers jacket! Some "eastern hares" in front. The lacto-acid Oerbier in front again.

 

Raising my digicam did include the nice Oerbier lamp. The small Oerbier man is in fact a presentation of a yeast cell !

 

"How to make money on beer"
A great humouristic pamphlet (art work) made by Kris Herteleer. Clicking the image gives a high-resolution image. You will see that InBev is the main focus :-)

 

A nice group picture at the Dolle Brouwers stand.

 

The new Oerbier. 9vol% strong and mixed with 25% sour Oerbier.

 

The neighbour from DDB was Bruges' brewery De Regenboog.

 

The copper Regenboog tap installation. The bottles Pierewietje and Snuffel beer. Snuffel beer is made for youth hostel "De Snuffel", located in the centre of Bruges. It's their house beer.
Commercials hanging on the wall featuring Wostyntje and Smisje Kerst. Art design (Salty Dog) made by Bill Coleman.

 

Nice tap list. Wostyntje (the mustard beer), Smisje Dubbel and Smisje Kerst.

 

Smisje Kerst for me please ! Note that the recipe of Smisje Kerst is American influenced. In fact the recipe comes from Bill Coleman, yes the art designer of the Smisje labels.

 

Kris Herteleer (masterbrewer De Dolle Brouwers) and Johan Brandt (masterbrewer De Regenboog).

 

A 'primeur'. Smisje Cuvée 2005 10vol%. Christine, wife of Johan Brandt, pouring out some glass for an exclusive taste. this is a limited brew of about 600 bottles. A one-time brew, and only available in 75cl bottles. Every bottle carries it's unique number!

 

Smisje Cuvée 2005 poured out.

 

Great head! Nice salty Dog drawing from Bill Coleman. Full bodied beer with a nice malt sweet and yeasty taste. made with malts, hops, water and yeast only. 4 kinds of hops are used including one hop straight from the US!

 

Another rare beer from De Regenboog. Pierewietje.
An original brew specially made for Bruges' puppet theater "Pierewiet".

 

The six Belgian Trappist beers were present at this Trappist stand.

 

Bio Brewery De Hopperd.
Great Kameleon commercial featuring a kameleon carrying a hop flower.

Masterbrewer Bart Desaeger from bry De Hopperd.
Truely one of the better beers around !!

 

In front of the Fantôme stand.
Left:American fellow Jim from Florida and William Roelens, webmaster HOP.

 

Brewery Caracole.
Great beers, great labels.

 

The bry. Caracole labels are without any doubt one of the most beautiful to admire in the whole Belgian beer scene.

 

Tom Ciccateri, American beer scene reporter and "Beerdrinker of the year 2005" in the US ! Also representative New Mexico Virtual Brewpub.

 

Beer lovers with beery shirts.

 

The back of the ZBF 2005 T-shirt.

 

Foreign beers. Alot has been done to promote the ZBF on a worldwide scale. The result is a vast amount of foreign beerlovers to attend this years' ZBF. The nice thing about this is the importing of foreign quality beers. This picture shows some examples of American beers.

 

The ZBF brochure.
2 ZBF taste glasses. The glasses with red emblem are from last years first edition.

 

Note that the booklet has a blue color. Blue is the color of the ZBF 2005. Therefore the 2005 ZBF taste glasses also carry a blue emblem.

 

American beer lovers again. this is a delegation of American beer magazine Ale Street News. Sitting in front on the right side (with hat) is Tony Forder, head publisher Ale Street News. The girl in the middle was wearing a "Beer Goddess" shirt. Info "Beer Goddess"