Brasserie du Bocq

Year after year, the best beers in the world are chosen in international competitions. In these competitions, long-established breweries face young, modern brewers, career changers and old hands. The best guy wins, no matter how long he or she has been in the business, and that's the fun of it all. The year 2019 was a very special one for the Brasserie Du Bocq from Belgium. Their Blanche de Namur was named the world's best Wit with a gold medal in the Brussels Beer Challenge. A day of celebration for the brewery and a good reward for the hard-working men and women behind the kettles, whose motto is “Simply Perfect”.

From farmer to brewer

The brewery's history began small and humble. The farmer Martin Belot brewed his first brew in 1858. Because agriculture lay fallow in the winter, he began to earn extra money with his home-brewed beer. The excellent water quality of his hometown played into his hands. Because Martin and his small team of farm workers carried out every step of the work themselves, they were only able to serve a relatively small radius. However, word got around about their wide selection of different brews and gave the family a good reputation in the region. The brewery's own delivery and the parallel agricultural operation were only stopped almost a hundred years later. From this point on, the beer was sold in supermarkets, drinks shops and by retailers and was no longer only enjoyed by people in the immediate vicinity of the brewery. Brewing continues at the old location in Purnode to this day.

Export with consequences

Because Belgian beer has been experiencing a real upswing for some time and is more popular abroad than ever before, the Brasserie Du Bocq also entered the export business and was able to almost double its production thanks to this clever move. The brewery's range is based on more than 150 years of brewing tradition and high standards of quality and taste. The award-winning Blanche de Namur is the flagship of the brasserie and, like all Du Bocq products, is made with a selection of exquisite raw materials. In typical Belgian fashion, the brewed pieces undergo a second fermentation after being bottled. This technique gently preserves the natural ingredients and produces an incomparably deep taste. Depending on the style, the beer should be served at a temperature of 4 to 12 degrees Celsius. Blanche de Namur is drunk at 4 degrees. The sediment is loosened with a slight swing of the bottle and poured over the remaining beer in the glass.

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