Oh yea! The biennial ‘Rondje Roodbruin’ or Red-Brown Tour. The tour is an open house at each of the four breweries in West Flanders who manufacture the Flanders Red and ‘Oud Brune’ beers. Rare and very special.
All the facilities are quite interesting. Rodenbach and Omer Vander Ghinste are large, modern operations. Verhaeghe and de Brabandere and smaller shops with fun, local character. Each of the breweries provided a tour, samples, food, and entertainment. All used what looked like forests of huge, oaken foeders (French oak) for aging. Many were over 100 years old. Amazing!
pics are: Verhaeghe foeders; Ryan, Shaun, & Mike at Omer; Omer band; food truck