The Beer Tour & Tasting - "BEST OF BELGIAN BEERS"

Date: to agree
Duration: + - 2h – 2h1/2
Departure: between 10h00 and 19h30, to agree
Group: from 5 to 25 people
Possibility of organizing several groups at the same time.

We organize a themed walk with as subject ‘Beer’ in the city centre in interactive way and gustatory, of course!

- departure from your hotel or seminarcenter (towncentre)

- different (small) walks accompanied by a guide to Manneken-Pis, the Town square (Grand’Place) and the Royal Gallery Saint-Hubert.

- Halfway: tasting of 6 different beers with comment of our guide and accompanied with an assortment of Belgian cheese.

- return to your Hotel (centre town)

Languages: in French, English, German, Spanish, Japanese, Greek or in Dutch (to be defined at the time of the reservation).

WORKSHOP CHOCOLATE & WINES
in a private apartment in the Brussels’ Galerie de la Reine

At the same time source of pleasure, energy and well-being, the chocolate is really the king of food.

Discover with our expert the way to combine wine and chocolate in a harmonious way!

Workshop - Alliance chocolates & wines

Introduction and sensory analysis with 4 flavors (sweet-salty-acid-bitter).
4 wines/4 chocolates will be tasted.
The wines are selected for their typical characteristics.

This will result in aromatic agreements and harmony of flavors, to soften the bitterness of some raw cocoa but also for example to discover unusual mixtures of chocolate, nuts, chocolate milk, spices, fruit of every kind.

Languages: in English or French.
Maximum 20p/ workshop.
Duration : +- 1h
Date : to agree.
Price: on demand

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CHOCOLATE DESSERT WORKSHOP,
in a private apartment in the Brussels’ Galerie de la Reine

THE CHOCOLATE DESSERT WORKSHOP
(group of max. 20 people)

At the same time source of pleasure, energy and wellbeing, the chocolate is really the king of food.

Program for one (culinary) afternoon (or evening):

After an introduction to the cocoa, its history and its varieties we will pass to the workshop in the kitchen with the famous dessert “Moëlleux au chocolat” and its adaptations according to the desires of season.

Followed by tasting the results of the workshop and preparation of a herb tea (digestive).

Languages: in English or French.
Duration : +- 3h
Date : to agree.
Price : on demand

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VIP - Introduction to Brussels...

Discovering a lot of aspects of Brussels in 2 hours (morning or afternoon).

a) Welcome at the Royal Galleries in a surprising subterranean passage of the mid-19th-century arcade and discover with our guide a city that reveals itself:
From a mysterious iris field to an enchanting colourful parade of Manneken Pis statuettes.
Discover Brussels’ history, culture, gastronomy, cityscapes, architecture and institutions.

b) Walk to and visit of the Grande Place.

c) Discovery and tasting of pralines of 3 different Belgian chocolate makers.

d) Walk to Manneken Pis and discovering of famous Belgian beers (with tasting of 1 beer)
Or
Guided Visit of the Town Hall, and discover the gothic hall, 16th and 18th century tapestry, old paintings with views of Brussels and the Senne-river, etc

Total duration: +- 2h – 2 ½ h
Languages: English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian or Japanese.
Maximum: 25 participants per group

Price: on request

OUR INTERACTIVE CHOCOLAT WORKSHOP “Belgian Chocolates”

The visit will be started with an introduction about the origin and the history of cocoa and chocolate, accompanied by a demonstration of pralines production. The demonstration will be presented by a Master Chocolate maker personally, who will let you discover all stadiums of producing one praline. The demonstration is in a way interactive and of course gustatory.

After that, the participants will have the opportunity to make their own type of chocolate !
Liquid chocolate, casting-moulds, stuffing, packing….
Participants are able to take home the results of their work !

Where ? Brussels City Centre, next to the Central Station.

Languages: French, Dutch or English (please indicate with your reservation)

Price: on demand.

Complementary programs from Sterkmans Events (proposal on demand):
- Dinner ‘all chocolate’ (3 courses)
- Guided themed walk in the city centre, discovering small artisanal chocolate makers

Budget: On request

ART NOUVEAU (visit and dinner)

Visit of the Victor Horta masterpiece "Hotel Solvay"
+ Art Nouveau dinner

The Hôtel Solvay (UNESCO world heritage site)

Everything in this building ready to be admired.

Here it’s unquestionably one of the most precious pearls of Art Nouveau in Europe, to which a good number of works have been devoted.

You said “Art Nouveau” ?

What is above all new, is the way you are going to be able to admire the most beautiful achievement of Victor Horta, the famous Hôtel Solvay.

A dream residence, built in times past along the prestigious avenue Louise in the full blossoming of Art Nouveau in Brussels. Its future owner – son of the great industrialist Ernest Solvay – put unlimited funds at the disposal of the architect, so as to possess an unequalled architectural jewel. Horta could henceforth envisage the whole building giving free rein to his imagination.

A fantastic and sculptural assembly of natural stone, wood panelling, ironwork and glass disposed around an immense French window and a monumental staircase topped by one of those astronomical glass canopies of which the artist held the secret.

Once having offered you, at the outset, this captivating plunge into the total magic of Art Nouveau, we will help you to share all the refinements during a delicious menu with “neo-artistically” fragrances in one of the oldest Belgian gastronomic restaurants in the city centre.

EXAMPLE OF TIMING & SCENARIO :

17.00 : We await you at your hotel or office (Brussels-Capital Region) with our luxury minibus.

18.00 : Welcome at the Hôtel Solvay (avenue Louise) by one of our best guides specializing in art nouveau, and guided visit to this marvellous family mansion.

19.00 : Leave for the restaurant for an “Art Nouveau” dinner.

19.30 : Art Nouveau dinner (details on request)

21.30 : Return to your hotel or office (Brussels-Capital Region) and end of program.

Price: on demand.
Other conditions : on request

« CHRYSALIS »

Workshop in progress : Dance, acrobatics and contemporary juggling

Transformation is everywhere… our world, individuals, nature… Everything changes, evolves, regress, die and revive…
We know that, we discover it mainly by seeing final results of changes, but the process itself is rarely noticed and observed.

The goals are to make the space vibrate in a limited time combining the theatre and its travelling in the time, the circus and its travelling in the instant and the dance in its travelling in the dream. That will be creation of an “alive” performance in constant transformation.
The point of start of the project is “chrysalide”, because it is a metaphor of the process of transformation. We all know that caterpillar will become a butterfly, and that’s the result. But all what happens in between those two stadiums is less known, forces that are violent, delicate, slow rhythms and all other forms of this process which are very complex, but also very fascinating!

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