Ferme Brasserie Beck hosts seminars, company and association meetings, public bodies and group stays at a family farm brewery in Bailleul, in French Flanders. The farm has two group gîtes, each with a hall that seats 80 people, and together they sleep 86. Its seminar page gives a range of 5 to more than 500 participants, with meals, technical equipment and activities organized by the farm.
Seminars and company events
The seminar offer works in three steps: choose the room and the meals for your dates, use the farm's technical setup, then add activities run with local partners. Sound, video projection, live internet streaming and marquees are available. Meals can be booked for breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack and dinner. Activities include a meeting held in a horse-drawn carriage (from 20 people), a guided brewery visit, a musician, and cow milking. The farm can also register participants online and share event information by email, and offers baskets of local produce as gifts. For adult groups of at least 20, it also builds custom programs over one day or a full week, combining a farm visit, the brewery, a carriage ride and farm-made meals.
Rooms and capacities
The gîte Au Pied des Collines is a single-level building of 300 square meters, independent from the farm, with a hall that seats 80, a large living room with fireplace and a kitchen corner. The gîte Au Cheval Flamand occupies a wing of the farmhouse, with a hall that also seats 80 and an open barn facing a meadow. The estaminet at the heart of the microbrewery serves groups. Larger formats up to the 500 participants named on the seminar page should be discussed with the farm.
Accommodation
Au Pied des Collines sleeps 36 in eight bedrooms of 2 to 6 beds, with five showers and five toilets. Au Cheval Flamand sleeps 50 in nine bedrooms and one 10-bed dormitory, with ten showers and ten toilets; one five-bed room is wheelchair accessible. Both gîtes have Wi-Fi, parking, a barbecue and garden furniture. Sheets and a cleaning package are optional. Both are listed with Gîtes de France and hold a Jeunesse et Sport approval.
Catering
Catering is optional in both gîtes. The estaminet serves Flemish dishes such as carbonnade made with the farm's beer, potjevleesch and grilled pork, and opens on weekdays for groups of 20 or more by reservation. The farm brews its own beers, Hommelpap all year and Alezane in spring.
History and setting
The Beck family has brewed Hommelpap since 1994, an amber beer without preservatives, not pasteurized, made with hops from the farm's own 3.4 hectares of hop fields. Since 1996, Denis Beck has bred the Flemish draft horse, a breed that had disappeared from local farms for over a century. Brewery tours cover the hop fields, the harvesting equipment, the brewing process and a tasting. The farm holds a hop and beer festival each September.
Getting there
The farm is on Eeckelstraete in Bailleul, at the foot of the Monts de Flandre, near the Belgian border. Parking is available at both gîtes.
