Our pub opened its doors for the first time on February 12th of 2011. One year later, a lot has changed. We doubled our whisky range and now serve around 60 class malts. Our range of beers is now almost exclusively craft beers and we can proudly say we have the widest range of geuzes in the wide region. We both lost almost 10 kilos in weight.
We still don’t understand why people order decaffeinated coffee with extra hot water. Just admit to yourself that you don’t like coffee. We still get excited when someone tries a beer for the first time and is happily surprised and we still love what we do.
So we threw a little party. Between 7 and 8 pm people enjoyed happy hour after which a band called The Skullfuckers showed us a good time. Here they are live. After the break.
An ordinary weekday in Steenkerke, you would think this town would be pretty quiet. Well, it normally is unless Kunstemaecker organizes a gig. Bram Moony stopped by and gave us a live performance in front of a full house, we won’t soon forget.
Some of you recognized Moony as the bass player of another band that played in our pub, The Smoking Dog. This set however, was much more intimate with long stretched out guitar solos, an alternate take on Lou Reed’s ‘Perfect Day’ and lyrics resembling poetry.
Here’s and excerpt of Moony’s performance. Audio quality is pretty bad because Frederik held his fingers over the mic the first 10 to 20 seconds. We apologize. Check out the pictures here.
Check out a video excerpt of The Smoking Dog performing live in our pub. Also have a look at the pictures we took during the gig by clicking “Photos” in the menu above. If you want to find out more about the band, may we suggest going here, here or here.
Wij zijn Vlamingen.
Wij drinken en eten,
wij zuipen en boefen,
wij werken, vloeken en zweten,
wij pissen en schijten.
Wij zijn Vlamingen.
Trots en wantrouwig,
spaarders in hart en ziel,
vroom en bang en stuurloos.
Wij zijn Vlamingen.
Wij wroeten en ploeteren
in de polders, in de broeken,
in de klei, op het land waar wij
heel ons leven hebben gewrocht,
ons kloten hebben afgedraaid.
Wij zijn Vlamingen.
Gereserveerd en luidruchtig,
achterdochtig en kluchtig.
Wij zingen en gieren
van ‘t lachen.
Wij zetten en verzetten pinten
en vreten frieten,
van de patatten van ons land
waar we heel ons leven hebben gewrocht.
2012. A new year. We decided to treat our customers to a New Year’s Drink on January 5th. A beer or a glass of cava on the house and more importantly the patron put on his nicest bow tie and read his New Year’s Letter out loud for all. Our humble way to thank you. Check out the letter (in Dutch) and a video excerpt shot by a customer, after the jump.
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