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Marriage Parfait by Brouwerij Boon

Marriage Parfait by Brouwerij Boon

This is Brouwerij Boon’s house tasting glass, and it feels noticeably more refined than the brewery’s traditional lambic tumbler.
The tall stem and rounded goblet give it an elegant, almost wine-glass character that suits Boon’s more premium presentation of lambic, including its mono-lambic releases in corked and caged bottles. The front carries the enamelled Boon brewery logo, framed by fine gold-and-white horizontal banding.
On the reverse is the brewery’s key-and-tool emblem, also enamelled, giving the glass a second decorative face rather than simply repeating the front branding.
A simple raised nucleation mark sits in the bottom of the bowl. It is functional rather than decorative, but it reinforces the impression that the glass was designed with purpose rather than treated as generic tasting ware.
Overall, this is a carefully considered piece of glassware. Its shape, restrained decoration and finish all suggest that Boon wanted the tasting experience to feel deliberate and high quality.

u/BelgianBeerGlassMus — 12 days ago
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Rochehaut IPA

Brasserie de Rochehaut forms part of an extensive visitor complex incorporating restaurants, shops, an agricultural museum and even a forty-hectare wildlife park toured by little train. The glass, rather wonderfully, remains the quiet one in the family.

u/BelgianBeerGlassMus — 30 days ago

Poperings Hommelbier

It’s hop harvest time in Poperinge, so there could hardly be a better week to open a Poperings Hommelbier — a beer closely tied to the hop-growing tradition of its home town. And the glass is glorious, too!

u/BelgianBeerGlassMus — 1 month ago

Found this bizarre, wrap-around 2006 Chimay goblet at a Brussels brocante. Supposedly a limited "Five Senses" edition—anyone know the artist?

u/BelgianBeerGlassMus — 2 months ago

Spookvlieger

Hi, I picked this up on a recent visit to the Belgian town Sint-Truiden along with the beer. I've been able to track down the story behind the branding (The story behind Spookvlieger reaches back to the Second World War and the former airfield at Brustem, just outside Sint-Truiden. Today part of the Sint-Truiden municipality, Brustem was home to a major military airfield used by the German Luftwaffe during the war. Local legend tells of the mysterious “Spookvlieger van Brustem” — the ghost flyer — an unidentified Allied aircraft that appeared over the airfield, creating fear and curiosity among those who witnessed its unexplained appearances. The identity of the pilot, or even whether there was a single aircraft behind the stories, remains part of the mystery.).

I can't though work out who commissioned the beer or the glass or for what purpose. The brewery is a contract brewer and they haven't replied.

Does anyone have any more information?

I have a website that I use to track this kind of thing:

https://belgianbeerglassmuseum.org/glasses/bbg134/

u/BelgianBeerGlassMus — 2 months ago