Episode 1 - Dimitri Van Roy // Le Barboteur

My name is Eoghan Walsh, and this is the Brussels Beer City Podcast.

Each week, a fascinating Brussels resident invites me, your host, to their favourite Brussels bar. Where, over a drink or two, we talk about the importance of the bar to them, and their relationship to Brussels - what they love, what they hate, and why they couldn’t live anywhere else.

My guest on today’s episode is brewer Dimitri Van Roy of Brussels Beer Project. Dimitri is a familiar face in the Belgian beer community, thanks to his role as self-described “Geek-in-chief and ubiquitous presence at Brussels Beer Project’s central Brussels brewery and taproom.

Over a couple of beers - including some of his own work - at his Schaarbeek local, Dimitri and I talk about his formative beer drinking experience, how he chose Brussels over the US, and where the Brussels beer scene is at in 2020.

Quick note for context, this episode was recorded before the Covid-19 lockdown in Brussels and the global anti-racist movement that has emerged in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.