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Jenevermuseum Hasselt
Belgium's genever museum occupies a restored nineteenth-century distillery in Hasselt, protected in 1975 as the country's first industrial-archaeological monument and opened as a museum on 16 September 1987.
Status
Witte Nonnenstraat 19, Hasselt. Distils a museum genever on a restored 19th-century steam plant.
From convent farm to museum
The site was a farm of the White Nuns' Sint-Catharinadal convent. After the French confiscation of church property J.A.S. Bamps turned it into a genever distillery, later run by the Stellingwerff and Theunissen families. The buildings, with malt tower, malt kiln and distillery, were protected by Royal Decree in August 1975 as Belgium's first industrial-archaeological monument, bought by Hasselt city council in 1979, restored from 1983 to 1987, and opened as the Jenevermuseum on 16 September 1987.
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- CountryBelgium46 entries in the atlas so far
- StyleGeneverProtected name
- RegionHasseltHasselt, Belgium
IngredientBarleyHordeum vulgare- RegionBelgiumBelgium
RecipeCafé liégeoisLiège, Belgium- StoryFrom juniper water to London ginSchiedam, the Dutch genever town, Netherlands
IngredientJuniperJuniperus communis L. (EU law also allows J. oxycedrus for juniper-flavoured spirit drinks and genever)- RegionNetherlandsNetherlands
- HistoryEU spirit drinks regulation (2008)15 January 2008