Words by Breandán Kearney
Photos by Ashley Joanna
Published by Luster Publishing
Launch date: September 2024
This is a behind-the-scenes snippet from the making of Hidden Beers of Belgium, a book which will take readers on a journey of discovery through some of Belgium’s most interesting but under-appreciated beers. Read more here.
In Stephen King’s novel Misery—a 1987 psychological horror—a romance writer is seriously injured following a drunken car accident during a snow storm. He is then dragged to a remote country house by a deranged serial killer nurse who proceeds to torture him. The disturbing novel was wildly successful and was made into a movie starring James Caan and Kathy Bates. When Belgians Rémy Perée and Samia Patsalides bought Manior de Harzé in the Liège valley to convert it into their new home, brewery, taproom, and guesthouse, it was a house that had been a run-down 17th-century water dowsing laboratory. “It was like a haunted house,” says Patsalides. “When we visited it the first time, it was very old and creepy.” Today, Misery Beer Co. produces a range of beers which, until fairly recently, have remained hidden to the greater public.
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