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Beer Birthday: Hildegard Van Ostaden

June 30, 2024 By Jay Brooks

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Today is the 49th birthday of Hildegard Van Ostaden, brewmaster at Urthel, one of only a handful of female brewers working in Belgium. Inspired by a trip to Alaska’s barleywine festival, she also brewed the first American-style Imperial IPA in Belgium. Her beers are all great, and I love the illustrations on the labels that her husband Bas does. Join me in wishing Hildegard a very happy birthday.

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Hildegard with Brian Hunt of Moonlight Brewing at the Beer Chef’s Urthel dinner.

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Outside the Falling Rock, fellow GABF judges Carl Kins, from the EBCU (on left), and Hildegard (on right) along with her husband Bas (in the middle) during GABF in 2007.

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Bas van Ostaden, Bruce Paton and Hildegard after their dinner in 2007.

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Comments

  1. Jos Brouwer says

    July 1, 2015 at 12:08 pm

    I can think of some more female brewmasters in Belgium: An de Ryck (Brouwerij De Ryck), An Dilewijns (Dilewijns brewery), Annick Desplenter (Gruut). Also the (quite small) Oxymore brewery in the Ardennes has a brewster. And not to forget: Jean-Marie Rock (Orval) also has a female successor. And I may forgot some.

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