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  Hoegaarden
Hoegaarden is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant.
The municipality comprises the towns of Hoegaarden proper, Meldert[?] and Outgaarden[?].
Hoegaarden is home to Hoegaarden brewery, founded by Pierre Celis.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ho/Hoegaarden.html   (94 words)

  
 Different types of Hoegaarden
It is a similar brew to the original Hoegaarden, but is made purely from barley malt, rather than a mixture of wheats, oats and barley.
It is described as a fruity amber ale and it is spiced with coriander and orange peel.
This has the name Hougaerdse instead of Hoegaarden as this is what the town of Hoegaarden used to be called, you may also find really old memorabilia sporting the name Hougaerdse instead of Hoegaarden on it.
www.angelfire.com /nh/hoegaarden/differenttypes.html   (301 words)

  
 History of Hoegaarden
The art of white beer brewing was thanks to the work of monks living in the small Belgian town of Hoegaarden, they discovered the recipe in 1445 (as the bottle suggests).
Hoegaarden's monks were so good at their job of making beer and wine that at one point in time there was over 30 small farmhouse breweries in the small town which is less than a hour away from the well known Brussels.
This was a great achievement for the brewery, it was so successful that many other breweries attempted to brew their own white beers.
www.hoegaarden.org.uk /history.htm   (409 words)

  
 beer-pages.com - all you need to know about beer
This brewery's dark lager is in the Münchner-style and although it is a decent, characterful brew, which is much better than the basic Carlsberg Lager, it is not quite as good as the Carlsberg Special Strong Lager.
Hoegaarden was once the most famous wheat beer village in Belgium, with over 30 breweries, but as this style of beer gave way to modern beers, all the breweries gradually went out of business.
Hoegaarden is a well-hopped, cloudy yellow-white wheat beer, considered by some to be the finest of its type.
www.beer-pages.com /glossary/glossary_f_p.htm   (3145 words)

  
 What is Hoegaarden?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hoegaarden (pronounced whogarden) is a white beer which is brewed in the Belgian town of Hoegaarden by the De Kluis Brewery which is now owned by Interbrew, the brewery that also owns Stella Artois.
Hoegaarden gets its great taste partly due to there being special ingredients added during the brewing process, such as - wheat, coriander and curacao orange peels.
Hoegaarden is quite strong for a beer, standing at 5% vol.
www.hoegaarden.org.uk /whatis.html   (182 words)

  
 Hoegaarden Witbier - Hoegaarden Blanche - Hoegaarden White   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hoegaarden Forbidden Fruit has a superb fruity flavour accompanied by a spicy clove aroma with a hint of smoked wood.
Hoegaarden Forbidden Fruit is dark red, mellow and full-bodied with a sweet dry taste.
Julius is a top fermented specialty beer from the Hoegaarden brewery, which is refermented in the bottle.
users.pandora.be /hoegaarden/bieren_eng.htm   (313 words)

  
 Do the white thing with Belgian brews
Hoegaarden (pronounced WHO-garden) is pale yellow and nearly opaque, thanks to suspended wheat protein, some of which settles to the bottom of the bottle.
Hoegaarden is light-bodied, pleasantly tart and refreshing, with medium carbonation and hints of citrus, coriander seed, banana and bread dough.
Although Hoegaarden is no longer made at its historic home nor with the town's natural springwater, the good news is that there appears to be little change in the quality and character of Belgium's most famous white beer.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/29/WIGOFJL5H11.DTL&feed=rss.wine   (787 words)

  
 Beer! - My Friend and Yours...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Another in a long line of complex Belgian beers Hoegaarden is the exact remedy to the ills of a long day at work as well as the perfect beginning to a well-deserved weekend.
Licensed to Belgian brewers Hoegaarden and Stella Artois, Leffe’s legacy persists and thanks to Labatt, Leffe is imported to the United states for the true connoisseur to relish.
Established in 1894, the brewery is in the fourth generation of the De Brabandere family, who were originally farmers.
www.newagealcoholics.com /beer.html   (4274 words)

  
 Michael Jackson's Beer Hunter - Europe's stylish summer whites
It is the original classic of its style: Hoegaarden beer, from the small town of the same name in the wheat-growing Brabant farmlands to the east of Brussels and Leuven.
Less than an hour from Brussels, Hoegaarden is a pretty little town, with a famous rococo church, and the Kouterhof (telephone: 016 767433) makes a delightful spot for a meal and a drink.
Regrettably, the success of his brewery was such that Celis outgrew his financial resources and was obliged to sell out to the Stella Artois group, Interbrew.
www.beerhunter.com /documents/19133-000113.html   (1138 words)

  
 Pierre Celis from Hoegaarden & his Belgian White Beer
Under InBev, Hoegaarden White/Wheat Beer has become a beer that is to be seen in many parts of the world, with almost a million hectolitres being produced by them, in 2005; unfortunately, as a result of their meddling, it is a significantly lesser beer to what it was before they got involved in its brewing.
As already stated, the brewery named the Celis Brewery that Pierre installed in the cowshed, at Vroentestraat 1, in 1966, was the forerunner of the Hoegaarden Brewery, at Stoopkensstraat 46, in Hoegaarden, the one that InBev are to close.
In 1985, there was a fire in the brewery on Stoopkensstraat, and in 1986 the Winters brothers sold their share in the company to an investment group; the Achel Trappist Monastery had severed its financial connection with the brewery in the year of the fire.
www.whitebeertravels.co.uk /celis.html   (8695 words)

  
 Save the Hoegaarden white beer!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Subsequently in Hoegaarden 59 of the present 150 jobs are bound to disappear.
We like to express the bonds between our community and the Hoegaarden brewery and to the product worthy our name, by marching in grace from the Gemeenteplein to the brewery, on Saturday 10 December, meeting at 10:00 am.
We want to ask you to spread this call to all your relatives, collegues and acquiantances as a support to the staff concerned, to their families, as a strong sign of sense of community and as a sign of honour to a fair and honest regional product.
users.myonline.be /~tdn46833/english.html   (361 words)

  
 Hoegaarden Brewery Biography,info
Hoegaarden Brewery (pronounced /huːɡaː(ɹ).dən/) was founded by Pierre Celis in Hoegaarden in Flanders.
After a fire in 1988, the brewery was bought by Interbrew and Pierre Celis moved to the United States where he set up the Celis Brewery in Austin, Texas also making witbier.
Hoegaarden tradition states that the first Hoegaarden of the day must be finished in three gulps.
www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Hoegaarden_Brewery   (447 words)

  
 || LUU Real Ale Society || The Weekly Tipple - Christmas Special - P1
Where would we be without breweries, beerless that's where, so as a tribute to these mighty institutions big and small, we did our bit by going to visit a couple of these legendary characters.
The last to remain were Tomsin (Oud Hoegaards Witbier), which was closed in 1957 and the Loriers brewery (Speciale DAS Ale), which was dismantled in the 1960s.
And the people of Hoegaarden are rightfully proud of their beer and brewery.
www.leeds.ac.uk /union/socs/realale/tipple/251205_01.htm   (994 words)

  
 Celis
The brewery was founded by Belgian brewer Pierre Celis, who had already founded the well-known Hoegaarden brewery, named after his home town in Belgium.
Celis Brewery was located in a small building in the northeast of Austin, Texas near the highways US 290 and I-35.
Miller bought out Celis's remaining share in the company, but after claiming that the beers were not generating sufficient revenue, they decided to close the brewery.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ce/Celis.html   (181 words)

  
 VH's Fleyeing Circus: Weapons of Mass Beer Destruction
One of those local breweries, De Kluis (The Vault), is situated in the Flemish Brabant village Hoegaarden, somewhat east of Leuven (Louvain).
Hoegaarden beer is wheat-based, white and somewhat sour.
Hoegaarden was in the bishopric of Liège for many years, as well as half of the actual flanders.
vhfc.blogspot.com /2005/12/weapons-of-mass-beer-destruction.html   (1316 words)

  
 Satya Nov/Dec 03: Belgian Brews by Lydia Nichols
Hoegaarden is naturally cloudy, and the smooth taste is often enhanced with a fresh lemon slice.
Hoegaarden Forbidden Fruit is brewed according to a long tradition in which the secret blend includes the flavors of dark malts, dried orange peel, and coriander.
Last but not least, there is Hoegaarden Grand Cru, which is known as the noblest beer in the Hoegaarden brewery.
www.satyamag.com /nov03/belgian.html   (874 words)

  
 Pierre Celis, Hoegaarden
By the 1500s Hoegaarden had a brewers' guild and in the 19th century there were some 30 breweries in the small town.
Left: The entrance to the Hoegaarden brewery, scheduled to close in autumn 2006.
Last December the citizens of Hoegaarden held a rally in the town to protest against the closure of the brewery.
www.beer-pages.com /protz/features/celis.htm   (1265 words)

  
 Hoegaarden
In 1750 there were 35 breweries in the town but in the late 19th and early 20th centuries the arrival of golden lager sent sales of white beer into steep decline.
The last white beer brewery in Hoegaarden closed in the 1950s and the style had disappeared by the time Celis and his friends had their discussion a decade later.
He lived next door to the last brewery in the town and had worked there on a part-time basis and was acquainted with the brewing methods.
www.beer-pages.com /protz/features/hoegaarden.htm   (675 words)

  
 Celis Brewery
Today, Celis Brewery Incorporated is one of the most recognized breweries in Texas, producing more than five types of beer, all in the Belgian style.
Born in 1925 in Belgium, in the small town of Hoegaarden, known for its micro breweries Celis was initiated very early in the art of beer brewing.
Pierre Celis wanted to rebuild his brewery but for that he had to join with Stella Artois, a large brewery that was later renamed Interbrew.
www.laits.utexas.edu /sp/celis.html   (1489 words)

  
 Beer, Brewery & Pub News: White Beer Travels
A centre showcasing this style of beer that is unique to Brussels and the nearby Payottenland, is to open in Linkebeek (www.linkebeek.be), which is close to the famous Gueuze town of Beersel.
Note that before the announcement of the closure of the Hoegaarden Brewery, in Hoegaarden, the beer was already being manufactured elsewhere, i.e.
After the closure of his brewery in Austin, Celis White is now produced in the USA by the Michigan Brewing Company, in Webberville (www.michiganbrewing.com).
www.whitebeertravels.co.uk /news.html   (3719 words)

  
 Cream City Suds: Kool Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
After 15 years of reading about Belgium breweries, importing their beers (I was the first to distribute Chimay, Duvel and Hoegaarden in Minnesota), and of course enjoying their products, I have finally made my first journey.
After an outstanding lunch of rabbit cooked in Hoegaarden Special, Todd, John and I were joined by three other people for a very intimate and up close tour of the brewery.
After our excellent tour of Hoegaarden, Todd was able to convince John to drive us to the small town of Beersel, home of the 3 Fonteinen and Oud Beersel breweries.
www.creamcitysuds.com /kool.html   (1808 words)

  
 Beer and Brewing News - Brew-Monkey.Com
Staff at the Hoegaarden brewery walked off the job after hearing the news on Wednesday, broadcaster VRT reported.
In the 1800s, Hoegaarden was a regional brewing center, with 30 breweries producing the famous "white beer." By the 1950s no white beers were made there.
He eventually sold his brewery to Interbrew - which recently became part of InBev - and moved to Texas to found the now-defunct Celis Brewery.
www.brew-monkey.com /news.php?id=261   (165 words)

  
 Hoegaarden Brewery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The final brewery in the town of Hoegaarden closed in 1957.
On November 30 2005, InBev announced a restructuring of their Belgian organization under which the Hoegaarden brewery would close and operations would be moved to Jupille.
In December 2005 it was decided to close the Hoegaarden brewery and move the production of the beers to the Jupille brewery in southern Belgium.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hoegaarden_Brewery   (483 words)

  
 Brussels Features | Fodor's Online Travel Guide
The eight other Lambik breweries are in the Pajottenland region, to the west of Brussels.
The upper floors are closed to the public, but in the cellar you'll find a small museum containing tools from the original Hoegaarden brewery as well as a high-tech video installation in four languages that provides an excellent overview of the brewing process.
Contemporary facilities may characterize the brewery today, but beer has been made here since 1366, originally under the name Den Horen (the horn, which can still be seen on the label).
www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=brussels@35&cur_section=fea&feature=30009   (1491 words)

  
 Hoegaarden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hoegaarden is a municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium.
On January 1, 2006 Hoegaarden had a total population of 6,225.
Pierre Celis, founder of the breweries Hoegaarden and Celis
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hoegaarden   (106 words)

  
 Plato's bar Hoegaarden
Taste : subile and complex in the mouth, strong aroma, tending towards sweet and delicately hoppy.
Alc:vol: 8.7 % Serve at 5 to 6 C in thepremium style Hoegaarden Grand CRU glass.
Bottle conditioned & Naturally cloudy Brewed to a tradiional recipe with unmalted wheat, Hoegaarden yeast and specific ingredients, white beer owes its name to its naturally cloudy appearance.After natural fermentation in the vat, the beer undergoes a secondary fermentation in the bottle which gives its characteristic straw yellow colour.
www.platosbar.com /index.htm?p=70   (186 words)

  
 Hoegaarden Witbier - Hoegaarden Blanche - Hoegaarden White   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hoegaarden features numerous attractions, among which is St.-Gorgonius' Church, the country's largest rococo church.
Hoegaarden is a fairly large village in Flemish Brabant, located at the junction of the brook 'Nerm' and the river 'Grote Gete', near the town of Tienen.
It was the end of an era, and a heavy blow for the town, which lost the last brewery to keep a glorious tradition alive...
users.telenet.be /hoegaarden/dorp_eng.htm   (416 words)

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