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We take you through fields, discover chilly projects and eat a good slice of bread! Who dares to say that there are only old nerds at the countryside, think again we will make you ... moremeet nice countrymen.
On your way to Walloon Brabant for a breath of fresh air! Beautiful roads lined with fields, old ruins, an unusual rural workshop and a tasting around a beautiful table await you.
We will guide you on the historical thread of this beautiful countryside. Then a nature guide will make you discover, the time of a walk in the woods, edible and medicinal plants. The pick of the day will then be cooked and tasted for lunch.
A very nice activity to do with family or friends!
You are often undecided when choosing a restaurant? Sometimes even a bit frustrated because the starter of this restaurant looks like a topper, the dish of another restaurant makes ... moreyou drool and the dessert looks downright crazy at the next place?
Embark on a gourmet night aboard “Zaza”, our sixties minibus; On the program: 3 places that offer you a dish to enjoy accompanied by a wine agreement, all interspersed with VW minibus walks in Brussels and the discovery of urban farmers.
The culinary experience takes you to restaurants that favor quality and seasonal products with a bit of “je ne sais quoi” that makes it really cool. 7 places, a nice friendly table and a driver who will guide you. The ride is given in french / dutch and english simultaneously.
Get to know the country’s and the city’s history and its old traditions and see its main sites through a walking tour while enjoying its:
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Chocolate; sampling and learning the secrets of the chocolate culture in Belgium , get to sample 12 different treats of chocolate from ganache, praline, truffles to chocolate Macaron and Hot chocolate by visiting the best chocolate makers in the city.
Sample the traditional cookie Speculoos made with recipes dating back to the 17th century .
Continue on with the Beer tour where you get at least 6 generous samples of the best Belgian beers from different styles (Trappist,abbey, Lambic, micro-brewery) paired with local cheese and sausages ; including exclusively Westvleteren XII the best beer in the world aka the Holy Grail (This is the only tour that offers it) in the most authentic and ancient off-the-beaten-path traditional bars.
Sample one local exclusive Belgian Whiskey distilled in Belgium by a (brewery/distillery) , yes you heard it first here Belgian Whiskey (yet another exclusive for a tour in Brussels).
Round off your tour by enjoying the famous Brussels Waffle in the Royal Galleries combined with quality melted chocolate and topped with local fruits of your choice paired yet again with a Trappist beer.
Brussel, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
Come and join us in our quest for craftsmanship and flavors, where you enjoy a combination of these two gems from Brussels. This tour gives you a chance to taste awesome handmade chocolates, ... moresample excellent local craft, and traditional beers, and meet like-minded guests.
We’ll first visit various chocolate shops, where you can taste amazing chocolate samples; - Dark ganache, crunchy hazelnut, salted butter caramel, you’ll also try ginger, coffee, tea, chili or saffron... You will surely be amazed by all these treasures and much more that Brussels has to offer!
The unique chocolatiers of Brussels are creative, always experimenting with new textures, cocoa beans varieties and flavors.
The second phase of this tour takes you to a Belgian Beer tasting session where you visit taverns and bars around Grand Place. It's an amazing way to locate small taverns and socialize with locals.
You will try completely distinctive beers that are all unique to Belgium. You will get a chance to sample Trappists, Abbey beers, Krieks, Lambics, Double Browns, Triple Blonds, Belgian IPAs, and much more!
This tour enables you to learn more about the history of the city, discover secret corners and explore the rugged path.
Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
During this 2.5-hour workshop you’ll learn how to temper chocolate and, from it, craft 2 types of Belgian chocolates:
Pralines: The most famous Belgian chocolate, consisting of a ... moredelicate chocolate shell with a creamy filing. You’ll learn how to make both the shell and the filling from scratch!
Mendiants: Chocolate discs studded with dried fruits. Crispy and delicious!
You’ll make at least 30 chocolates, which you can either eat on the spot or take home to family and friends.
With our easy technique and chocolate theory, you’ll be able to make your own chocolates once you return home
Combine Beer Tasting with Brussels Pub Crawl experience to enjoy an authentic Belgian Nightlife experience! This escapade starts at 8 PM at the Brussels Grand Place, we will commence ... moreby heading to our private workshop place, where Chocolate and Waffle workshops are held during the day. Here, you will learn all about Belgian beers. This is an informative and interactive experience on lagers, ales, and other special varieties of beer which includes 5 beers tastings! At 9:30 PM we will return to the meeting point to join the rest of the crowd and hit the bars of Brussels! You will be welcomed with 1 free beer at the first bar and also drink discounts along the way. The experience ends at 12:30 AM at a bar with a DJ or a club if it is on a weekend when clubs remain open until 6 AM!
Learn everything about Belgian beers in this more than one-hour tasting experience that includes 5 free Belgian beer tastings! This experience will amaze you with double, sour, sweet, ... moreand other exotic Belgian brews, that will make you forget Budweiser, Heineken, and Stella!
This is an interactive experience that will change your perspective towards beer even if you never liked the beers you have tasted before! This experience is ideal for everyone who loves beer.
Since the first Crusades the Church allowed abbeys to brew and distribute beer as a fundraising method. Trappist monks carry on those deep traditions today with their dark, sweet, ... morecomplex ales while Belgian craft brewers create their own rich brewing history by experimenting with modern beer flavors.
Throughout this beautiful country, we will visit many of these breweries, new and old, to learn more about the people, their history, and the beers they brew. We’ll also visit several of Belgium’s renowned Beer Cafés along the way, all the while enjoying what might come as a surprise to some – delicious food that blends traditions and mixes the multiple cultures in Belgium.
Life is short and so it makes sense to maximize your time in Belgium. This seven-day vacation does just that. We will tour much of the country, staying in six different cities and villages including Brussels, Bruges, Watou, Ghent, and Herzele. We will visit over a dozen breweries, abbeys, beer restaurants, and beer museums and your Hosts will show you some of our favorite off-the-beaten-path Beer Cafés and restaurants and introduce you to some of our favorite people in Belgium’s beer culture.
Tour Itinerary
DAY 1 IN BRUSSELS
Welcome to Brussels, Belgium!
Our journey starts after lunch, allowing you to arrive in Brussels this morning or the evening before. After a few short introductions, we head out for a walk around the beautiful city of Brussels, visiting ancient sites including Europe’s most impressive plaza, The Grand Place.
We’ll taste arguably the world’s best chocolate along with Belgian Beer at Laurent Gerbaud. Afterwards, we hop on a local train to head to Brasserie Cantillon for a tour and tasting of this unique brewery.
Cantillon uses natural yeasts that are present in the air around us for fermentation. From there we will walk to have a conversation, craft beers and craft cheeses with our friend Jean Hummler at Moeder Lambic.
This evening we’ll enjoy Belgium’s typical food specialties and beer cuisine at Restobières not far from The Grand Place.
DAY 2 IN BRUGES
Today we travel to the northwestern part of Belgium, to the city of Bruges in a special region known as Flanders. Bruges is known for its rich history, impressive architecture, tasty food, and great beer cafés. Once we stop off at our hotel, we explore by foot on a walking tour of this grand city.
We end our walk with an educational tour and our own blending session at Bourgogne des Flandres. Bourgogne des Flandres specializes in the Flemish beer blending tradition of mixing fresh beer with aged beer to create a perfect balance of flavors.
We then head to lunch at one of the last remaining family-owned breweries in the Bruges city center, Brewery De Halve Maan. You may have heard about their new 2-mile beer pipeline they recently built leading from their brewery in city center to their bottling plant in an industrial area. The pipeline carries 1,500 gallons of beer an hour at 12 mph, which has saved them hundreds of truck trips a year. When you see the narrow, historic streets of Bruges, you will wonder how the tankers ever made their way through originally!
After the tour, we make our way to t’ Brugs Beertje where we’ll have the choice of 300+ Belgian beers. These beers include commercial brands, seasonal varieties, and unique and hard-to-find brews.
DAY 3 IN BRUGES & WATOU
Today we begin with a tour and tasting at the Rodenbach Brewery, where they have world-renowned cask halls with 294 oak casks, some of which are 150 years old. Rodenbach was started in 1821 and is famous for their barrel-aged sour beers that are brewed in the Flemish red style.
Next, we pack up and drive to St. Bernadus Breweryin Watou. This is also where we will be staying overnight as they have a B&B attached to the brewery. We’ll grab lunch and have a chance to sample their blonde and dark abbey ales. But don’t fill up too much as we make our way through fields of wheat, barley, and hops to arrive In de Vrede at St. Sixtus Abbey, a fully functioning abbey where the monks are world-famous for producing fantastic Westvletren Belgian-style beers. This is one of the only places in the world where you can buy these highly sought after beers.
We then head back to our lodging at the St. Bernadus Brewery to relax before enjoying a delicious dinner at the Hommelhof, known for its beer-based heavenly cuisine.
DAY 4 IN YPRES & GHENT
We start our morning with another lovely scenic drive through the varied, wooded landscapes, hop fields, and hilly roads as we depart Watou heading for Ypres. The WWI Battle of Ypres had reduced the town to rubble and was almost entirely destroyed. After the war, the citizens of Ypres meticulously reconstructed the town’s most important buildings, which in turn give it modern day medieval feel today.
During our stop, we’ll enjoy lunch at a newer brewery that opened in 2014 but is housed in a building with quite a bit of history. Kazematten‘s building was originally built as part of Louis XIV’s fortress back in the 1680s and used for storing weapons into the 20th century. We’ll get to taste their Grotten Sante, a spicy dark brown beer, and their Wiper Times 14, a highly fermented blond beer.
We then head for one of our favorite cities in all of Europe, Ghent, where we will be staying for the night.
DAY 5 IN GHENT
Our day starts with Champagne! Champagne Beer that is.
Today we head for the village of Buggenhout, where we’ll visit Malheur, known for their traditional Champagne-style beers. Afterwards, we return to Ghent where you will have some time on your own to explore the city, find a nice place for lunch, and maybe do some shopping.
We’ll then meet at one of our favorite breweries, Gruut. Their beers are unique because they use special spices (gruit) instead of hops to flavor and preserve their beers.
At this point in our tour, we have seen and experienced an abundance of Belgian history. For a change of pace, we will be dining at a restaurant where history meets the modern day. The Belga Queen is located in an 18th-century landmark building but inside it boasts contemporary architecture with a gastro-pub menu.
One of the best ways to taste the wide variety of beers available in Belgium is in Beer Cafes (bars) and there are several outstanding beer cafes for us to explore in Ghent either before or after dinner, including the historic Herberg De Dullie Griet just off one of the oldest squares in the city. When you order a beer here, they take one of your shoes and hoist it in a basket to the ceiling! You’ll get your shoe back when you return the glass.
DAY 6 IN HERZELE & BRUSSELS
After a leisurely breakfast, we’ll check out of our hotel and begin our journey back to where we began, Brussels. But we’ll, of course, have to whet our whistle along the way and stop at the Brewery De Ryck in Herzele.
Brewery De Ryck is a 4th generation family-owned brewery whose current brewmaster, Anne De Ryck, is one of Belgium’s first (and few) female brewmasters. We will also have the chance to explore the ruins of the Herzele Castle that date back to the beginning of the 7th century before getting back on the road to Brussels.
To cap off the night, we’ll stop into a few of Brussel’s world famous beer cafes to raise a toast to our final evening together.
DAY 7 IN BRUSSELS
On our final morning, we’ll have breakfast in the hotel and bid each other farewell.
You are then free to continue on your travels – take a return home, stay in Brussels for another day, or perhaps take the high-speed train to Paris, London or even Amsterdam!
TOUR ACCOMMODATIONS:
Night 1: Hotel Welcome – In the heart of Brussels, Hotel Welcome is a unique and well-situated hotel that allows us to walk everywhere we need to go in Brussels. Each room is decorated as a different country. The market is located in the plaza in front of the hotel.
Night 2: Hotel Patritius – This hotel is loved for its location, staff, private garden, and family-owned atmosphere. Located a few blocks from the heart of the city.
Night 3: St. Bernadus – Attached to the St. Bernadus Brewery, this charming B&B is located just outside of Watou town center. Though the accommodations are quite simple, what could be more fun than staying the night in a brewery?
Night 4 & 5: Sandton Grand Hotel – One of the greenest hotels in Ghent, this hotel offers the perfect blend of original and authentic design, comfort, and luxury.
Night 6: Hotel Marivaux – Formerly a theater in the 1920s, this hotel is perfectly situated in the heart of Brussels, allowing us to walk everywhere we need to go.
Accommodation upgrades available upon request.
*Please note: Hotels are subject to availability. If the listed hotel is not available at the time of the tour, a hotel that is equal or better to the original will be secured.
PRIVATE TOUR OPTION
Private Tours are available to book with your own group on any date you choose, given lodging availability, as either a Classic or Deluxe tour
Deluxe Tour: $4,700 per person (optional $1,100 single suppl.)
Classic Tour: $3,400 per person (optional $850 single suppl.)
Minimum: 6 people (Alternative pricing for fewer people available, please contact our tour operations team for more information.)
Customizations to the above itinerary possible with additional per person fees
The following is included in our Deluxe Tour offering:
All meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner)
All our wine tours include tastings of very good to excellent wines. However, these are not necessarily rare, reserve, or old wines. If you would like to upgrade your wine tastings on a private tour, please let us know in advance and we are happy to arrange that at an additional cost.
Upgraded to luxury accommodations
Beer and Chocolate: A match made in Belgium! It’s hard to meet a more authentic Belgian than Werner. His two biggest passions are chocolate and beer. He has found a way to fuse Belgium’s ... moremost famous products into interesting chocolate and beer pairing tastings. Werner has truly found a hole in the market. His years of experience as a as a chocolatier for the world famous Callebaut Belgian Fine Chocolate and his knowledge of beer as a beer sommelier make him an expert in both fields.
Werner's philosophies: Craftmanship is an art. Passion is everything.
Beer and chocolate have a lot more in common than you would think! If you think of beers like porter and stout, they both have that chocolate aroma, just from the combination of malt, yeast and hops. The similarity of beer and chocolate lies within their complexity, in their flavours but also in production and the ingredients.
Werner has found out that you can perfectly pair artisan beers and fine chocolate pralines, providing a delicate flavour harmony. Or even more interesting: find contrasting flavours in beer and chocolate to strengthen both their subtleties.
After a lot of research, Werner now organises interesting beer and chocolate tastings all over Belgium. His knowledge and expertise in beer and chocolate is impressive!
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