STEAM (BREWERY)
Read moreSaison Pipaix, Steamed in Madness, Vapeur Cochonne
It was a brasserie but also a sawmill: it was necessary for benefitting from the driving force delivered by the steam engine which animated the facility since 1896. Typical example of close-brasserie, the brasserie with vapor of Pipaix goes back to 1785. In 1983, Jean-Louis Dits and his wife, thirty year and impassioned teachers local produce, take it again a few years after Gaston Biset hung up again the fourquet at a advanced age.
The business is not simple because equipment and the buildings are more than outdated. After several months of efforts, the first mash tub leaves the venerable tanks miraculously. Jean-Louis brews then old-style local beers, including the venerable Saison Pipaix, of which it adapted the recipe. That does not prevent it from offering many wines with picturesque names and labels often illustrated by his friend Louis-Michel Carpentier, the author of the cartoon who tells the colourful adventures of the owner of bistro of Brussels' Poje”.
In the meantime, the brasserie was partially equipped with modern equipment, to better sticky to date. And it is that the Vapor Makes a mess of comes to give it a boost, to become its reference product in 1992. Also declined in 33 Cl Cochonette., this dark amber 9% alc. flight is now the largest part of the production.
Next door, thus Saison de Pipaix (fair, hair, spicy, 6%), the Steam in Madness (strong of 8%). Very high fermentation, of course. But Jean-Louis offers regularly and in limited quantities of the most amazing mash tubs, including a beer or pumpkin leaves fig trees. It also made a Steamed Aquilon struck a label with lips… Jean-Louis Dits organizes during meal-tasting and public mash tub with restoration all last Saturday of the month. It also made exudes a Spirit of Vapor Makes a mess of, strong alcohol of 40% flight.