Since 1992 a lot of different homebrews were made ‘in the kitchen’ in very small amounts (approx 50 litres/brew). This was done by Dany and Marleen, together with Patrick Scheirlinck, an old collegue of Dany, who is actually still working as brewing master at the Huyghe brewery. In november 1999 son Jonas was born and to celebrate this event a special beer was brewed : Jonasbeer. It was a brown-red spicy beer with 9 vol% of Alc that was very much appreciated by the visitors in the hospital (visiting little Jonas…). A lot of the visitors wanted to buy some bottles of this ‘Beer of birth’ and slowly the idea of maybe brewing again and getting the beer on the marked started to grow… After a pregnancy of some months out of the original Jonasbeer a brownred, full malted topfermentation beer with a spicy aftertaste was born : xxx !? They didn’t had a name ! ! !
While they were brainstorming for an name, it happend that little Jonas was crying and then they always dipped his sooter into a little bit of the nameless beer and gave it to him. As by miracle Jonas stopped crying, was happy and fell into sleep...
One moment the wife smiled and said : this beer is a real ‘Slaapmutske’ (which literally means ‘sleeping hat’, but also is used for ‘the last beer that is drunk before going to sleep’)! At that moment Dany and Marleen looked at eachother and both knew for sure: ‘Slaapmutske’ had to be the name of our newborn brewing child !
