Thursday Lates: Wild about Beer

Join us for a special event to mark the upcoming 450th anniversary of the birth of Peter Paul Rubens.

Some of Belgium's most interesting beers are made without the brewer adding any yeast at all. The brewer lets whatever lives in the air do the work, different strains of wild yeast and bacteria, and then waits, often for years, while it ferments and conditions in oak barrels. What comes out is dry, tart, layered, and often closer to a wine than what most people think of as beer.

Beer writer Breandán Kearney, author of the book Hidden Beers of Belgium and editor of the podcast and website Belgian Smaak, pours a selection for you to taste, from the lambic country south-west of Brussels to the vinous red-brown beers of Oudenaarde, and tells the stories of the people who kept these traditions alive when nobody else wanted them. No beer knowledge needed. Served in a wine glass.

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This Thursday Lates event is a part of the Dublin by Dusk initiative in support of the Night-Time Economy After Hours at the Museum scheme.