She’s a local Brazilian, beer sommelier, and former actuality TV host. He’s a Brussels native who has labored in each facet of the business, together with the brewhouse at Fantôme. Collectively, Paula Yunes and husband Valéry De Breucker launched a brewery in Belgium’s Luxembourg province. Now, Brasserie Atrium, is popping heads with recent takes on saison and different classics whereas turning up the warmth with trendier types corresponding to hazy IPA and barrel-aged stout.
It’s no small job to launch a brand new brewery in Belgium and achieve acceptance for it there. Belgian beer lovers have their established manufacturers, and their brewing group is comparatively sluggish to alter. Nonetheless, the small city of Marche-en-Famenne, close to Rochefort, was the best place for them to launch—the road they’re on is Rue de Brasseurs (Brewer’s Road), in spite of everything. And grabbing a European Beer Star gold medal for his or her saison, The One, is the form of factor that tends to get individuals’s consideration.
On this episode, Yunes and De Bruecker focus on:
- constructing a extra expansive concept of beer in a conservative beer market
- their cooperative means of creating recipes collectively
- creating an area, small-town brewery with cosmopolitan influences
- the business-driven want to interrupt from custom
- brewing a noteworthy, award-winning saison in a rustic identified for them
- utilizing native water and yeast with glucoamylase enzyme towards the tip of fermentation, to get their saison to full dryness
- brewing hazy IPA with the Belgian twist of home abbey yeast
- utilizing excessive mash temperatures together with wheat and oats to construct physique
- the problem of utilizing Brazilian woods corresponding to amburana and cumaru for barrel-aging
- breaking down the gender barrier in Belgian brewing
And extra.
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