BROUWERIJ DE PROEF

Reinaert (Amber, Tripel, Grand Cru) The Proef brewery dates from 1996 but as most of its business consists of brewing to order for third parties (individuals, breweries which need extra production capacity or new start-up breweries), neither it nor its brewer, Dirk Naudts, are household names in Belgium. In fact, the one range of beers that it sells under its own name, Reinaert, accounts for only 0.2% of its total production, which, in 2010, was 36,000hl. The company is better known abroad. In the United States, they work together with other breweries, spreading the word about hoppy beers. In Denmark, they supply the restaurant recently voted the best in the world: Noma, in Copenhagen. Noma has been selling Noma Novel since spring 2011.