CELEBRATE THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF VANBERG & DEWULF

Vanberg &Dewulf Beer Tasting 

Tuesday, November 15th from 4:30-6:30pm

The Wine and Cheese Place

7435 Forsyth Blvd, Clayton, MO 63105

314.727.8788 

Here’s what we’ll be pouring: 

Saison Dupont, Farmhouse Ale

Hop Ruiter

Scaldis Refermentee

Castelain  Blonde Biere de Garde

Foret Blanche, Belgian White Beer

For Immediate Release:

THE COAST TO COAST TOAST IS HAPPENING AT THE WINE AND CHEESE PLACE TO CELEBRATE THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF VANBERG & DEWULF

You are invited to attend!

November 15, 2011 – King’s Day in Belgium – marks the official day (and night) of the Coast to Coast Toast. It’s a celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the founding of Vanberg & DeWulf.  But it’s simultaneously a time to acknowledge the immense contributions that great bastions of craft and specialty beers like The Wine and Cheese Place have made to building the market and educating a generation of beer drinkers to demand and appreciate well-made beers – especially Belgian ones!

Vanberg & DeWulf are the original, most ardent and proselytizing importers of Belgian beers in the USA.  It’s no wonder they’re called the “Belgian Experts”: ever since 1982, their mission has been to support independent, family-run breweries and indigenous beer styles that express the spirit of a place. The founders, Don Feinberg & Wendy Littlefield, were the first Americans inducted into the Belgian Brewers’ Guild. They published the first edition of “The Great Beers of  Belgium” by Michael Jackson, and brought Duvel, Rodenbach, and the lambics of Frank Boon to  the States.  In the 1990’s they pioneered cooking with beer education at the CIA and The James  Beard House. Don & Wendy conceived of and built Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, NY, thereby constructing the first farmstead brewery to be built in over a century… on a former hops farm, no less.  Their brewery Ommegang was the first brewery to make all bottle-conditioned, cork-finished, exclusively Belgian-style beers in America. Every beer in their current portfolio is a major or a minor classic. So when they invited us to take part in the Coast to Coast Toast™ was there a chance we would say no? Absolutely not!  

The Wine and Cheese Place has been a huge supporter of the Vanberg & DeWulf beers over the years.  So on Tuesday, November 15th from 4:30-6:30pm we are throwing our own version of the Vanberg & DeWulf Coast to Coast  Toast™ right here in Clayton, MO.  We hope you will want stop in to raise a chalice to Vanberg & DeWulf, with at least one of the more than 50 beers from 10 breweries whose beers they import.  

Here’s what we’ll be pouring: 

Saison Dupont, Farmhouse Ale

Hop Ruiter

Scaldis Refermentee

Castelain  Blonde Biere de Garde

Foret Blanche, Belgian White Beer

In addition to The Wine and Cheese Place, other iconic Belgian-tinged bars, restaurants and stores from New York to Little Rock, Chicago to San Francisco, and Miami to Anchorage will be celebrating along with us.

For further information contact:

The Wine and Cheese Place

7435 Forsyth Blvd, Clayton, MO 63105

314.727.8788 

and drop an email to vanberg.and.dewulf@gmail.com