If your neighbourhood pub was open just three-and-a-half hours a week, you might get a bit parched. Luckily, Eizeringenaren have “Insurance against the Great Thirst”.
The endearingly named cafe in this 800-home hamlet welcomes locals and lovers of authentic beer on Sundays from 10.00 to 13.30, though last orders linger on for customers safely inside. It also opens for occasional festivals, holidays and funerals at St Ursula's church across the street.
The brothers Panneels, native sons, kept those hours when they acquired the bar from the owner of the previous half century, who was preparing to close at Christmas 1999. Tradition aside, they have day jobs.
"It's not a commercial project. It's a hobby," says older sibling Yves, while savouring a draft of aged lambic from the nearby Girardin brewery. This type of artisanal product has make their pub a pilgrimage destination for connoisseurs seeking traditional lambics and their offspring, chiefly Champagne-like gueuzes and cherry-infused krieks.
Source: Flanders Today, 19 january 2011