Wow! What a weekend it was at Hoppiness Brussels!
Last weekend the Heritage Days were taking place and especially for this year’s theme Hoppiness hosted eight workshops about the influence of the interwar years and Art Deco on Belgian Beer Culture. I prepared this workshop together with my colleague Helene from Hoppyz. She did the same workshop in French and English at her house, while I hosted in Dutch and English.
What a pleasure it was to dive into our history and taste three beer styles from those years with so many visitors on both Saturday and Sunday.
We tasted:
– Fresh 20 month old lambic straight from the barrel from Brasserie Cantillon, Brussels oldest brewery.
– Silly Scotch brewed for the first time in 1918 from Brasserie de Silly, who celebrated their 175th anniversary the same weekend.
– Palm Speciale brewed first in 1929 by Brouwerij Palm, in the speciale belge style that was brought to live by Belgian brewers at the beginning of the 20th century to compete with foreign ales.
A big thank you to Urban Brussels for organising this beautiful weekend and to all those lovely people that joined!