English beer enthusiast Steve Hannigan wearing a 't Smisje Tripel
T-shirt. Above the 't Smisje Tripel drawing one can spot the Burgundian
Babble Belt emblem.
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Danish beer !
The ZBF is also the perfect place to swap with foreign beers.
These two plastic bottles were brought by Danish beerlover Jacob
Lövenlund, a top rater at ratebeer.com.
Left: Smoke flavored beer. Right: Extremely hoppy Danish IPA.
Two marvelous beers and really worth the transportation to Belgium.
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The brewery
De Leyerth stand. Nice Urthel art design from Bas van Ostaden,
husband brewmaster Hildegard.
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Hidegard pouring out a new Urthel Bock for me.
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Nice looking wooden Urthel pamphlet.
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The new Urthel Bock. This beer is mainly exported to the Netherlands
where the tradition of Bock beers is more common.
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At bry. Van Steenberge stand. The representative from bry. Van
Steenberge was entouraged by Dominiek Geers and wife from Dranken
Geers. Dranken Geers being one of the best drink centrals
in Belgium !
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Theresa, JanW, Marcus
M and Ian in front of the Fantôme
stand. Foreign beerlovers with the heart on the right place when
it comes to Belgian beer.
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Theresa is the wife of JezzaP. JezzaP was the guy who ran that
must obligated bookmark webforum about Belgian Beer, called "The
Burgundian Babble Belt".
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A BIG toast - with great beers from brasserie Grain d'Orge -
to this years' ZBF !
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Every fellow worker carried, as I already explained, those blue
ZBF shirts. Also a white card could be noticed. Here you see the
card from Rik Vernack (chairman De
Oostendse Bierjutters). Rik was part of the 'Security'.
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Back to Flanders. Bry.
Van Steenberge (BIOS).
Representative Martin Cuelenaere pouring out a lacto-acid "Oud
Bruin" Bios Vlaamse Bourgogne for me.
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Martin Cuelenaere was once chairman of the Bruges' OBP beerorganisation
"d'Olletorreproevers". Sadly non-existant anymore.
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Pierre Celis involvement at bry. Van Steenberge. Celis White.
Do notice that the new fruitbeers (the Brussels range) are also
an idea from Pierre Celis and are brewed with Celis White as basis.
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The tap choice and installation was one of the most impressive
at the fest.
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Famous beerlovers.
Left: Carl Kins, member local Zythos branch from Wevelgem "Heerlijk
Objectief Proeven", and specialised in foreign beers
like American microbrews.
Middle: Italian Lorenzo Dabove aka Kuaska
and also known as the "Prince of the Payottenland".
This because Lambic/Gueuze is his passion. very friendly guy and
always in the mood for a joke.
Right: Rik Vernack, chairman De
Oostendse Bierjutters. friendly sympathetic guy and always
in the mood for a help.
Thanks guys for all the precious work !
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Lorenzo Dabove in company with the masterbrewer of bry.
De Ranke: Nino Bacelle.
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Bry. De Ryck beerchoice. Big bottles and mini-kegs. Beers brewed
by An De Ryck.
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Bry. De Graal
A nice drawing featuring the Grail (Graal in Dutch). This drawing
is made in the same style as the famous Belgian strip figure "De
Rode Ridder" from deceased drawer Karel Biddeloo. One
of his last drawings this is !
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The always sober looking De Graal stand. Be aware that the beers
are not that sober. Really recommendations !!
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Bry. Van Den Bossche beer line-up.
Left: The brand new wheatbeer "Pater Lieven Wit".
Middle: The ever so delicious "Lamoral tripel".
Right: The dark and tasty "Buffalo".
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The man responsible for the background music.
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Armand Debelder, brewmaster "3 Fonteinen" pouring out
an artisanal draught Lambic, and this out of the beautiful air-pressured
handpump.
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Brasserie
de Silly S.A. The pink colored fruitbeer Pink Killer is a
nice refreshing and thirst-quenching beer with a very distinguish
grapefruit taste. A real summer beer !
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Jeffry Castelein from picobrewery
Alvinne pouring out some Podge Belgian Imperial Stout. A stout
specially made for English beergeek Podge (see picture here under).
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4 brews with an amount of 30 liters were made. The wort is exactly
the same, but the fermentation was realized with 4 different yeast
strains.
A. IRISH
B. SCOTTISH
C. DRIED T58
D. WHITBREAD
The objective is that Podge will choose one of those 4 brews to
continue with. Most of us opted for A !!
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Famous English beerlover Podge on the left with very recognizable
Hawaian shirt. In front Siobhan and in the back famous beer writer
Stephen d'Arcy.
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Wallonian beer enthusiasts and participants at Wallonian beer
forum BièreBel
at indispensable www.bierebel.com
website.
Left: Stef // Right: Xavier
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The back of the ZBF 2005 shirt
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Italian Lorenzo Dabove offering some great Italian beers !! The
lady in front is Tesse Shelton, the wife of Dan Shelton (www.sheltonbrothers.com).
See last picture of this page.
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At this point (Sunday afternoon around 17pm) there was a big
group of Americans visiting the fest. The start point for beer
swapping !
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Left: American friend Craig Somers from Washington DC, and member
Brewers United for Real Potables - www.burp.org
Middle: Tommy Van Ouytsel, member festivalteam Zythos aka Elpres.
Tommy: Great job !!!
Right: Tom Nickel from O'Brien's, an American Style Pub located
at San Diego, CA.
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More American attendees.
Dan Shelton from the
Shelton Brothers, one of the biggest importers of Belgian
beer to the USA!
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