De Garre

Even without any summer vacation this year, the family decided to do a day trip to Bruges and the coast at De Haan. Finally, our Stroehlein friends invited us for dinner in Bruxelles, so we had a very convenient and delicious stop on our way back home.

Before going to Flandres, I already informed myself about possible micro-breweries in the city and found one on a blog. The authors mentioned that it has even no address and would be difficult to locate because it is located not in a street or a lane, more in a backyard between two houses near the main place of Bruges.

I don't know, but without any direction I found the "lane". Looked like being transfered from one of the Harry Potter stories.





For any of you, who wanna go there, I will try to give you a hint where you might find it. It's called De Garre and beside brewing beer, they have a very small pub, too (the entrance is the one with the steps). Inside, you feel like in reformation times, the ground floor has probably six tables, the first floor not more :-)





They have about 100 different Belgian beers in bottle, and the home-brewed De Garre on tap. Obviously, we tried this one and, for the record, during one visit you are not allowed to order more than 2 glasses of it. We didn't try it, but being there at lunch time without any food in our stomach, two glasses were enough :-)





And you should really try it, it is delicious. It's a triple beer, with probably 11% alcohol, sweet at the start, then fruity with some melon tastes, the finish is a decent bitter note. It was really fun to look for that place and try its beer.

After leaving the place, it was difficult following the girls on their shopping safari, but finally I found a good place: