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Beer & Battlefields

Join us for a fascinating experience on a new battlefield tour designed by our popular guide Marc Hope. We combine many battlefield sites from both WW1 and WW2 with visits to a selection of the best breweries, many of which were affected by the conflicts and whose beers were drunk by the troops. At each brewery you will have a guided tour and enjoy a sampling of the beers!

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4 nights hotel with continental breakfast
Specialist Battlefield Guide
Convenient local joining points

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Local departure by coach, then to Ypres for a four-night stay. Your guide will discuss some beer recommendations en-route, together with running through the itinerary.

Today we look at life behind the front and discuss the famous estaminets where soldiers got to drink the local beer themselves during the war. In Poperinghe we visit Talbot House and their Behind the Lines Museum. We also look at the subject of those ‘Shot at Dawn’ and visit the Death Cells. Lunchtime in Poperinghe followed by a visit to the Hop Museum to look at the whole history of this in the Flanders region and enjoy a tasting. We then go into Ypres and visit the Kasematten Brewery in the ramparts close to where the Wipers Times was published in 1916.

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Poperinghe Talbot House Hop Museum Kasematten Brewery

This morning we start at the Bierkasteel Van Honsebrouck at Kortrijk, and after lunch at Hooge Crater Café, with time to explore the museum and trenches. We then make the short journey to Diksmuide to see where the Belgium Army was fighting during the Great War and see the fascinating Trenches of Death which snaked along the Yser Canal: a place where two armies opposed each other over a short stretch of water. We end the day with a visit to the Brasserie Thiriez in Esquelbecq, a French brewery frequented in the ‘phoney war’ by British Troops.

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Hooge Museum Dixmude Trenches of Death Bierkasteel Van Honsebrouck Brasserie Thiriez French Brewery

We spend today looking at the Battle of Flanders in 1940 and the Retreat to Dunkirk following the fortunes of the British Expeditionary Force, including the Wormhoudt Massacre site. After lunch at St. Omer we visit the Deca Brewery in Vleteren close to the Belgian front line.

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Deca Brewery Wormhoudt Massacre Site St. Omer

Return home.

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With each brewery visit you will get a guided tour of the brewery plus a chance to sample the beers and also have an opportunity to buy products from each brewery’s shop. Each visit takes around 1.5 to 2 hours.

Accommodation

You will stay for four nights at the 3-star Novotel Ypres. This excellent hotel is located in the heart of historic town of Ypres, only a couple of minutes-walk from the Menin Gate Memorial, where the 'Last Post' is sounded every evening. The hotel is a firm favourite within Leger’s Battlefields programme and makes the ideal base for exploring the rich military heritage of the area. The hotel has a small bar area and restaurant.