GENTSE GRUUT BEER

All beers from this craft brewery are brewed without hops. Until the 13th century, beer in Europe was commonly flavoured with mixtures of herbs and spices known as gruit. Fifth-generation brewer Annick De Splenter studied medieval manuscripts to recreate a distinctive gruit blend that gives the beers their particular aroma and flavour; the brewer also notes that some gruit herbs were traditionally believed to have stimulating or aphrodisiac properties.