Guest tap, rotating
Tap 23
Scaldis Triple
Brasserie Dubuisson, Pipaix
A golden tripel with weight behind it: 10.5%.
Legend has it
Scaldis is the Latin name for the Scheldt, and the Scheldt has a giant in its legend. As the story goes, Druon Antigoon guarded the river at Antwerp and made everyone who passed pay a toll. Anyone who would not pay lost a hand, which the giant threw into the water. Then a young Roman soldier, Silvius Brabo, challenged him, cut off the giant's own hand and flung it into the Scheldt. Hand werpen, 'to throw a hand': that, it is said, is how Antwerp got its name, and Brabo still stands on his fountain there.
Beer stories travel from brewery to bar to guest, and rarely shrink on the way.
Interesting facts
- The start
- The triple arrived in 2008, unfiltered and refermented in 75 cl bottles.
- The tax
- Joseph Leroy ran the lord's brewery at Ghyssegnies, across from today's brewery, but when Maria Theresa taxed even seigneurial breweries in 1769 he built his own farm brewery.
- The brothers
- Until 1932 the farm brewery made beer only for the farm workers and villagers, until the brothers Alfred and Amédée Dubuisson bought it from their parents.
Especially good with
Mussels with cream & Grana Padano, steak frites.