Strength and hops! A while ago I was contacted by the brewery of
"Abbaye des rocs" in Belgium to do a video !
Frankly I am invited to the country of the beer or there was more brewery than
of churches, I run for it! Beer abbey or not abbey is not the subject
this brewery is an exception and if I went there to enjoy
the sun of the Belgian pampas ... arh, it is especially to tell you his story.
I mean, it's the first micro-brewery in Belgium
EVER and they started 40 years ago with washing machines they pimped!
And next to that they have a project: the "Rocs beer factory"
It's a collaborative micro-brewery and eco-responsible that they would like to install in
the mill of the old abbey! But I think the best is
still to go there for you show all that. Are you ready? Let's go !
So quickly we realize that we arrive in the NORTH, then in Belgium and that's fine
already better then to Montignes-sur-rocs where located the brewery.
Before going to meet Nathalie and Margot I will make you visit quickly.
It is Sunday then obviously there it's all calm but normally there is
five people snapping nonstop to go out to 2/3000 hectoliters / year
We are far from the 170,000 Chimay ...
As you can see a great Part of the gear is of another age (a
little bit like their tags) there are more authenticity and tradition here than
in some breweries where you are makes believe that there are monks.
Since its creation 79 finally in "september-nine" has been a lot of people who have been here
whether to do spying or just to train. In any case
as she will explain it to us it is a historical place loaded with memories of
yeasts on the walls and surprises ...!
Every weekend my grandfather
basing my father with the fact that do beer it was a difficult job
After a while my father got tired of it said to himself, "Well, I'm going to try
because ... he's starting to annoy me what! " So he inquired at Chimay Abbey
to see if anyone could not give him information, and Father
Louis who was the brewer, the master brewer at the time bah he proposed himself
kindly invite him to come to Chimay to learn
to brew with him. So as he had put his recipe to the point but that it was
always to make beer in his pans, it was not very practical so
he wanted to create a micro brewery but for that he had to ask when
even permission to the state because at the time in 1979 it was absolutely
forbidden to brew less than ten thousand hectoliters! He asked for permission
he had the derogation. He had to do with the means of the edge. He recovered
old tanks washing machines from there he created the vats
materials, filter tanks, boiling tanks, all based on recovery equipment.
It was a kind of Mac Gyver yeah! Good and the brewery had always
no name at the time. And as he did that with a friend, that we live in
village of montignès-sur-rocs and that in the brewery street there was a
old abbey his boyfriend suggested to him Ben: montignès-sur-rocs, there is an abbey,
ben "rock abbey" just stupidly what. So, the name comes from there.
At the time so craft breweries in the 80's it was not very good
It meant change of taste ... So we had to turn to export.
Like others leit motivates to do a truly artisanal product, and without
chemicals, and pure malt, that makes a accumulation of yeasts and a
flocculation in the bottle. But to United States people when they saw
that in the bottle for them it was catastrophic. It's ... they were going to be beings
poisoned, it was "dirty". By cons in France
maybe because of the wine I do not know but people thought it was great
there is yeast in the bottle. They found that it was a pledge of quality, a pledge
of natural products. But we are absolutely against putting
additives to stabilize. It was not our goal from the start and that's not the
will never be even if we do not have to to become gigantic.
Even though beer is greatly appreciated and demand increases,
the size of the brewery will remain reasonable:
no more than 10 000 hectoliters a year!
The industrial it does not really dream Nathalie but it does not prevent to evolve
a whole concept around his brewery!
If I turn into an ice cube during the interview ... how's it going?
Since its inception, the brewery has been promoting a
production that is respectful of the environment. That's why there is a
continuous improvement of equipment since 1979, with the purchase of
three new vats we will reduce our water needs by one
quite a considerable way. It's really important for us to offer
our customers a quality product but a product also natural that wants
healthy. This artisanal quality we want really local since our suppliers
whether malt or hops are local suppliers
We want to increase our productions but we do not want to exceed ten thousand
hectoliters to stay a microbrewery and offer our customers
really this natural quality and artisanal
we want to keep what. Here in Audreniès we are on a site that we named the site
0 waste on which is organized all Sundays from 11h to 13h apéros
bucolic, and behind just behind you have the waterfall that actually
is there Honnelles and that's why we call our white beer the
"Blanche des honnelles". On the 0 waste site is also present the store
Ariane: on the trail of the yellow elephant. Who is a store that promotes upcycling
so she reuses old furniture etc to give them a second life
as we can see here. It is also Ariane that will allow us
to do all the furnishing of our future collaborative pico-brewery that
it too tends to register really in responsible and sustainable values.
It was the conclusion!
And this famous pico-brewery will be the "Rocs Beer Factory"
The objective of this project is to reinvest the same site of the old
mill of the abbey to create discovery and initiation workshops
brewing. You will be able to spend day with Nathalie for
brew a custom beer from A to Z and in addition to the gear of the time but
there is work to put all this in state then if the heart tells you you
have a link in description for participate in their crowdfunding campaign!
Come make a beer with we, even if you know not brew
on the contrary, it is even more interesting we are here for you
to learn, to pass a good day by making beer and
especially do not forget in the gouttant all during the day
"Work while being drunk" I'm crazy!
In addition we are the first in Belgium to have
started, and me it would really make me pleasure to share this experience
with you then do not hesitate, come to us to join, I will spend an excellent
day with you. See you soon, I hope !
Okay now if you want to brew and not with anyone
Or even travel your senses and travel
in time you know where to go. Anyway, I'm there
will surely be for the inauguration. I have some funky beer ideas to
to do in group. And then they have still tons of stories and
anecdotes to tell you I've told you not everything says there!
They told me there was a club Japanese who drank exclusively
their beers but who had to know to advance the size of their barrels for
to know if they could return at the same time so their local was small!
I hope this video with the colors of Belgium will have pleased you, there is
many others who arrive then to not miss them and then to support
chain, remember to subscribe but do not forget
that beer, even if it's GOOD, you have to abuse with mo-de-ra-tion!
Wear well, Strength and hops!
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