In Tournée Générale, Belgian artist Jean Blaute takes along his British friend and wine devotee Ray cokes on a refreshing road trip through the Belgian beer landscape. Very rapidly, Jean and Ray realize that beer is a frequently underestimated product: the taste palette is vaster and the brew process more complex than is commonly adopted. Moreover, beer has a non underestimated impact on several fields in our society: art, economy, folklore, gastronomy, architecture and religion have all been, however, linked in one or other manner with our Belgian beer. The two adventurers thus not only acquire necessary knowledge during their travel and own brew experiment, they discover also the many facets of the Belgian beer tale. Tonight, Jean & Ray experience an exclusive happening: they penetrate to the sacrament of the Belgian beer: the brewery of the Saint Sixtus Abbey of Westvleteren, where the Monks brew the best beer in the world …

While this sequence is mainly a mix between English & Dutch spoken actors, we are sure many of you, who were not able to see this live, will enjoy this, we will broadcast this feed only until Sunday 14th! The next sequence will be broadcasted on Canvas, on the 2nd of June 2009. Source : Canvas

We are sorry, but as promissed, and in respect for the program makers, we desactivated the link. We hope everybody who missed the program, had the chance to watch this movie. For those who missed it until now, we propose you to watch Canvas on the 2nd of June 09.

36 beers, 10 absolute world prémieres, 1 cask ale, 8 beers on draft and only 3 breweries and a brewery to be … see you on thursday and/or friday!

Collaboration brews:

1. Keralensis (Alvinne-Struise) @ Alvinne-stand (bottle conditionned)
2. Pipedream (Pipeworks Brewing Co-Struise-Alvinne) @ Struise-stand (bottle conditionned)
3. Black Damnation (Struise-De Molen) @ Struise/De Molen-stand (on draft)
4. Xenophon’s Wine (Struise-Pipeworks Brewing Co) @ Struise-stand (bottle conditionned)

Special Burgundian Babble Belt beers:

1. Podge Bourgogne Barrel Oak Aged special Burgundian Babble Belt Edition (Alvinne) @ Alvinne-stand (bottle conditionned)
2. Black Jack (Real Ale Cask), only on friday from 4 pm till … the cask is empty¨ (Struise) @ Struise-stand

Very limited and only to taste when ordering food:

1. Morpheus AD 1200  (homebrew, middle-age beer, David & Marc, free tasting, for as long as it’s available)

Picobrouwerij Alvinne regulars on draft:

1. Extra Restyled
2. Podge BI Stout

Picobrouwerij Alvinne regulars, bottle conditionned:

1. Lex’ke
2. Festina Lente
3. Alvinne Tripel
4. Balthazar
5. Gaspar
6. Melchior
7. Kerasus

Picobrouwerij Alvinne: Alvinne Oak Collection: bottle conditionned

1. Eycken Balthazar
2. Alvino Bourgogne Barrel Oak Aged
3. Melchior Bourgogne Barrel Oak Aged
4. Melchior Calvados Barrel Oak Aged

Struise Brouwers on draft:

1. Tseeses 2008
2. Black Albert 2008
3. Double Black
4. Besty

Struise Brouwers bottle conditionned:

1. Struise Rosse
2. Struise Mikkeler
3. Pannepot 2008
4. Pannepot Reserva 2005
5. Schommelpeird

Brouwerij De Molen on draft:

1. Vlaams Holland (lacto Flemish Brown Ale)

Brouwerij De Molen bottle conditionned:

1. Hel & Verdoemenis (Hell & Damnation)
2. Rasputin
3. Bommen & Granaten (Bombs & Grenades)
4. Bloed, Zweet & Tranen with Bruichladdich malts (Bood, Sweat & Tears)
5. Heil & Zegen
6. Hemel & Aarde (Heaven & Earth)