Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
| Day 11 of our epic beer filled journey across The Netherlands and Belgium:
We awoke early in the morning after a long night of debauchery the evening prior. We were on the motorcoach by 10 AM and on our way out of Maastricht and back to Belgium. Our first stop this morning was the Brouwerij Kerkom. This is one of the few places that we visited this trip and our visit two years ago. It was a high point of both trips! The brewery itself is located in an old coaching inn, and the stone watering troughs for horses still hug the walls of the inner courtyard. The site used to be a brewery in the past, but because it has not been continually run, it does not qualify for grandfathering out of modern brewery specifications. Some old family run breweries like Cantillon and Vapeur are able to continue functioning without upgrading all of their equipment. Mark at Kerkom has been in a battle to get clearance to run a brewery out of this building complex for many years. He has an unused stai … |
Source: JABlog: A Minnesota-Centric Beer Blog
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