Annual gale picking on the estate for KABAN beer

Every year, in spring, we pick the buds of the gale on our estate. Gale is a protected herb and grows in wet peatlands like at the fen below our treehouse KABAN. After drying, the gale is used by Brewery de Fontein in brewing our KABAN beer. One of our popular speciality beers in the hotel bar for 15 years. KABAN beer is a powerful blonde beer with 7.5 per cent alcohol. This spicy triple beer consists of the special ingredient gale. What is special about gale is that it harks back to the traditional brewing process, whereas it is hardly used these days. KABAN beer is perhaps the most popular beer in our bar. In 2012, the weekly magazine Proost even voted KABAN beer the tastiest house beer in the Netherlands in the 'heavy' category.