Latest reviews from Kwatrecht

“Very passionated owners, unique spontaneous fermented beers.“

JefVerstraete 693 days ago

“Where to begin with this one… Starting off as a publicity platform for the natural wines and sakes which founder Hans Dusselier was already collecting and selling, the church of the village of Kwatrecht in between Melle and Wetteren southeast of Ghent is his property meanwhile, and now fully operational as the production site for this own range of Heilig Hart beers. With the help of his son Victor, simple gravity is used as a means of transport in the brewing process – in itself neither new nor unique, of course, but doing this in a neogothic church symbolically rising up to the heavens adds a whole new dimension to this old principle. While the first Heilig Hart beers (“In de Naam van de Vader”) are solid enough but classically top-fermented, the more recent generations (“In de Naam van de Zoon” and “In de Naam van de Heilige Geest”) are complex, intelligent and ambitious plays on fermentation and maturation techniques, drawing inspiration from lambic, natural wine and other beverages, and though experimental, never fail to impress with their unique approach to what sour ale can be. I silently hope this place and its sour ales will never become as hyped as Bokke, Antidoot or Bofkont for perhaps rather egocentric reasons (i.e. being able to get my hands on them), but I am the first to acknowledge that these creations deserve all the attention from the beer world – and, as seems to be the intention, the gastronomic world in general – they can get. With more and more church buildings becoming ‘profaned’ in recent years and consequently being given various non-religious functions, I think there is a good chance that more of these ‘church breweries’ (Jopenkerk in Haarlem, Netherlands probably being the most famous of them now) will pop up in the near future, as will churches containing supermarkets, book markets and so on; but I think the Dusseliers will continue to have a particularly enchanting place even if this trend expands. A visit to the Kwatrecht church, quite easily reachable from Ghent or Brussels by train, is a pilgrimage every serious beer (or sake, or natural wine) lover should undertake at least once. Beautiful place on many different levels, clearly run with great love, passion and knowledge, I recommend.“

Alengrin 733 days ago

“Originele locatie, sfeervol gebleven. Hier komt ook een echte microbrouwerij. Ook selectie van speciale wijnen en sake.“

Jerre 2227 days ago