Posted on 10/06/2021 10:18:15 AM PDT by mylife
I’ve had quite a few pints in my life. Be it light or dark, bitter or sweet, a fizzy 5 percent or a starker 9 percent, beer has always been my favourite drink. So when I heard that there are places in the world where you can not only drink beer but bathe in it, my interest was piqued. One of them, Belgium’s first beer spa, just opened in the heart of the capital, and I couldn’t miss the opportunity to try it.
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Founders Bart De Brabanter and Louis Raes decided to devote themselves to this new passion project after returning from a trip to the Czech Republic, where this spa concept has been going strong for years. The duo previously worked in finance and in holiday rentals and knew virtually nothing about beer making or the wellness industry, but they didn’t let that stop them. Combining drinking and relaxation, their brainchild Bath & Barley opened its doors in May 2021.
“Czech beer culture is different, it’s more about producing pilsner in large quantities,” Raes said. “In Belgium, we have a whole universe of beers and more attention is paid to taste and textures.” While Czech beer spas are meant to be a bit of a “cheap and funny concept”, as Raes described it, he and his business partner wanted to “pull out all the stops with the spa experience” and offer guests high quality, locally sourced beer products.
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Just ask Hunter Biden, he knows.
Do the nuns get nekkid and join you?
There isn’t enough beer in Belgium to get us to go back to Brussels. Maybe they will open a Spa in Bruges.
I wonder if you can bathe in Belgium’s infamous cherry beer?
It is not particularly tasty, but was the favorite drink of the defrocked, lesbian and morbidly obese “the singing nun” and her lover, that combined with barbiturates was their chosen means of exit beyond the veil.
If you don’t like beer before you’re 20 chances are you never will.
Beer - what can’t it do?
“Sister, is that a loofah or are you happy to see me?”
“Beer - what can’t it do?
It doesn’t drink itself, or so I’ve heard.
Well then I must be one of the most healthy people on the planet.
Hi.
A Guinness in the morning in Killarny improves your golf game.
Imho.
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“I Explored How Beer Can Do Your Body Good At a Naked Beer Spa The concept sounds gimmicky and slightly blasphemous, but Belgian nuns swear that booze has great wellness benefits.”
THAT is a headline that will pack the pews.
Bring on the Porter, Stout and Ale
There’ a lot of them in Czech! That’s likely where they got the idea!
The headline implies I should consider getting naked with Belgian nuns in beer hot tubs.
years ago I Explored How Beer Can Do Your Body Good, but i can’t remember the results-
Naked Czech nuns... As a frequent visitor to Czechia I offer my services to interview as they are soaking.
--Benjamin Franklin
(Not an exact quote but expresses the point he was making.)
My uncle died at age 94, my aunt at 92. Drank a 6 pack of Iron City between them every night.
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