5 breweries in Limburg: you can taste that beer here!
Limburg and beer, it's a golden marriage full of love and taste. In the breweries of Limburg, beer is a serious business, but not so much elsewhere. Immerse yourself in the world of hops, brewing kettles and foam collars during a tour through the brewery. With an ancient tradition of brewing beer, Limburg is the place for this. Why would you leave it at one? Below are five beer breweries in Limburg that are worth a visit.
You will find small and large beer breweries spread throughout Limburg, together there are more than forty. Some breweries are small and experimental and others have brewing kettles several meters high from which they supply supermarkets throughout the Netherlands. Each brewery has its own charm and traditions. Extra fun is if you can take a look behind the scenes. Sometimes that even goes all the way from the field where the hops and barley are grown to the tasting room!
5 Breweries in Limburg that are worth a visit
Alfa Limburg Family Brewery
Welcome to the Meens family. Brewing beer has been in their blood for 150 years. On the edge of Schinnen, near a stream and surrounded by greenery. During a visit in the brewery you will not only taste different types of beer, but also the Limburg tradition of brewing beer and the cozy and casual atmosphere of the brewery. Highlights: the source from which the basis of all Alfa beer originates, the very first Alfa beer keg from 1870 and of course the extensive tasting…
Brand Bierbrouwerij
For the oldest beer brewery in the Netherlands you have to be in Wylre, a small brewing village in the middle of the hills of South Limburg. Expect old, but also new, because Brand is one of the largest breweries in Limburg. The tour takes you past copper boilers, modern stainless steel production lines and ends in – now famous – 't Kelderke. This monumental tasting room dates from 1937 and is the place to taste an age-old beer tradition.
De Fontein Brewery
Even if you don't like beer, a tour of De Fontein Brewery in Stein is great fun: there is a herb garden, a standard orchard and a great terrace. For the beer lover and especially the home brewer it is an absolute must. Here, several beers are brewed on a small scale by a very passionate brewing couple. Everything here is done with a lot of knowledge and love, down to the last drop.
Gulpener Beer Brewery
At the free brewer, the beer has also been flowing freely from the barrels for several generations. In the village of Gulpen, people brew slightly differently than the rest, because sustainable entrepreneurship has been a high priority here for decades. With their own locally grown hops and barley, the footprint on the earth is kept small and they claim to be the only real beer from Dutch soil. So stubborn brewers, good for a brewery visit full of inspiration and taste!
Brewery Hertog Jan
Playing with fermentation, cask maturation and jenever. In Hertog Jan's brewery, very special things happen in the copper kettles. Rather than 'ordinary' lager, they brew specialty beers here that involve plenty of experimentation. The passionate men's group behind Hertog Jan puts a secret ingredient in their beer: time. They let certain beers mature so that flavors develop further. During a tour you will discover even more secrets of the Hertog Jan brewery.
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