Bruges Beer Sampler
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A compact Bruges beer walk for sync testing: one historic brewery, one specialist tasting room, one classic beer bar, and one hidden late stop near the Markt.
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De Halve Maan Brewery
De Halve Maan — The Half Moon — has been brewing in the same building on Walplein since 1856, making it one of the oldest family breweries in Belgium. The brewery moved its malting operation out of the city centre in 2016 and dug a 3km pipeline beneath the city to transport the wort to the bottling plant — a remarkable engineering feat for such a traditional product. The Brugs tarwebier, brewed with wheat and aged in historic cellars, is one of Belgium's great forgotten beers.
Brouwerij 't Gulden Vlies
Brouwerij 't Gulden Vlies — The Golden Fleece — is a tiny brewery and tasting room on Vlamingstraat, housed in a building that dates from the 13th century. The brewery produces only three beers, all bottle-conditioned and made with ingredients sourced within Belgium. The tasting room is a single room with a bar made from a 400-year-old oak beam, and the owner — a former engineer who gave up his career to brew — is one of the most knowledgeable beer people in the country.
Bierbrasserie Cambrinus
Cambrinus on the Cuistrof is one of Bruges's oldest beer bars, an institution that has been serving the same address since 1892. The list is encyclopaedic: over 400 Belgian beers by the bottle, with 20 on tap. The house specialty is lambic and gueuze from the Pajottenland region south of Brussels — pour a glass of Boon or 3 Fonteinen and watch the bartenders demonstrate the correct technique for opening a corked bottle.
Staminee de Garre
Staminée de Garre is hidden down a small alley off the Markt — easy to miss, impossible to forget once you've found it. The bar occupies a medieval building that was once a tannery, and the interior retains the original stone walls and low beams. The house beer — a strong amber aged in oak — is brewed exclusively for the bar and is only available here. The atmosphere on a winter evening, with the fire lit and the low room full of locals, is one of the warmest in Belgium.
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