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Eastbourne | South Yorks incl. Sheffield, | Conisbrough Castle | Cadeby |
| Tallinn |
Stockholm |
Copenhagen |
Agadir |
Westendorf |
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Prague |
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Brugs Beertje Bar Map |
Brad, Stacey & Duncan are my beer students. For their first proper
lesson I took them to one of the Mecca's of good beer drinking. They're
trying to learn the subtleties of drinking beer (yes there are subtleties!).
I'm trying to turn these raw recruits into men (sorry Stace!)
suave and sophisticated people! This proved more difficult than I could
imagine! Duncan's best cheesiest smiles kept curdling the beer.
Brad & Stace were half a day late and missed the
on the Friday night. You know what they say, don't work with children
& animals. What happens if your subjects are a mixture of both.......
Brugge is one of my favorite cities to visit, ever! I spent my first night outside the U.K. here in the summer of 1987 while inter-railing. I've been here 4 or 5 times and it's still magical! The authorities allow very few cars inside the ring road. The roads are cobbled. All the houses/buildings are old. The city is very well preserved, almost a fairy-tale come true. The city seems almost entirely based on tourism and is busy all year round. It is WELL worth a visit and for beer tourism.
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| St Salvedor Cathedral | The Burg (City Hall?) |
That's enough culture! I'm going to concentrate on beer tourism as there are enough pages about the normal touristy stuff.
Breweries There
are 2 breweries in Bugge, the 
who
produce a very nice beer
of the same name, enjoyable even to 'Heiniken drinkers"!) and the De Gouden
Boom (Golden Tree) who produce 
Brugse
Tripel (excellent) and Brugs Blond. We visited the Straffe Hendrik brewery
(see above). The tour was in English/French/Dutch and costs BFR 140 (just
over 2 pounds) for a 45 minute tour with a free beer at the end and is great
value for money.
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| The Straffe Hendrik Brewery. Mecca for the beer tourist? | Patricia, Stacey, Brad and Duncan in the Staffe Hendrik Brewery Bar. Duncan is about to do a magic trick and pull a rabbit out from the collar of his shirt! Stace & Brad are thinking "How long will it take us to drink this place dry?" |
| Brouwerij De Gouden Boom, Langestraat 47, 8000 Brugge. Tel. 32 (0)50 33.06.99 |
OPENING TIMES Visit of the Brewery Prices : Adults : 3,00 € (1.4-30.9) Entrance : Langestraat 47 |
Bars :- I have 4 bars to recommend
(besides the bar at the Straffe Hendrik brewery). To be fair, I got these
recommendations from The Good
Beer Guide and we checked them out for ourselves.
 BrugsBeertje |
 Brugs Beertje
(Little Bruges Bear) - 5 Kemelstraat (for a map click here).
Open 4 p.m. until 1 a.m. Closed on Wednesdays. Has more than 300 Belgian
beers on the menu. This bar came recommended by friends, locals and the
Good Beer Guide. The GBG said that if you leave Brugge without visiting
this place then grieve! The GBG says that this bar was the inspriation
for the GBG. The choice of beer is fantastic and leaves the fanatical beer drinker like myself, drooling and incapable of coherent speech before you even down your first beer. The staff are knowledgeable and friendly and pour your beer steadily to avoid sediment getting into your beer. It's an excellent little bar let down only by the fact that it's dedicated to beer drinkers and there is very little to drink for non beer drinkers. |
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| Myself and Brian (from NYC) in the Brugs Beertje | A lecture from the teacher :-) |
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Garre - 1 De Garre.
This bar is between the Markt and the Burg down a small alleyway off Breidalstraat We loved this place so much that we went both nights of our weekend trip. It has it's own beer (Garre, you can see 3 glasses in the picture) a slightly spicy triple. There's an upstairs too with plenty of seating. Brad & Stace couldn't make the first evening due to work (about bloody time! (in joke!)). That gave us time to drink some beer before The Canadians 'drink the place dry' Eh! arrived. |
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Curiosa - 22 Vlamingstraat.
The Vlamingstraat heads off to the north from the Markt and is only a couple
of minutes walk. You need to go down some stairs into a cellar for
this one. The bar is long and thin but had a great atmosphere. |
 MeInErasmus |
Restaurants : If
you travel in Belgium a lot you begin to realise that the restaurants are fantsastic
and as a bonus every restaurant we've been to in Antwerp
or Brugge has a beer for the discerning beer drinker. Enjoy!
Hotels
:- http://www.brugge.be/Verblijf/en/hotelse.htm
Hotel Lybeer, Korte Vulderstraat 31 - Simple & cheap hotel close to
t' Zand area.
If you're looking for discount hotels travel culture in Brugge, just look online!
