8/14/2023 0 Comments Garden story bookworm![]() In 2008, Catherine and Philippe launched Brasserie de Bastogne, changing the name in 2018 to Brasserie Minne when they moved location to Baillonville and upscaled the brewing facility. ![]() She threw herself into her garden, and the couple started a family. She loved being completely surrounded by nature and she had a larger space to grow her book collection. “It was a nice feeling to be there and involved in the up and coming craft beer world.”Ĭatherine says that moving to the Ardennes from Brussels in the 1990s was one of the best things she could have done. “We really felt like we belonged with this movement and with the people,” says Catherine. The couple married and moved to the Ardennes, homebrewing obsessively and attending beer festivals to talk beer with like minded people. But Catherine’s dream was put on hold when a different passion emerged in her thirties.Ĭatherine met Philippe Minne and the pair bonded over beer and wine and experiences in cosy cafés and quirky pubs. When she was a teenager, her dream was to own her own bookshop. There was a park nearby in case you wanted a different reading environment, or a place to digest the stories on a stroll. ![]() She worked in a bookshop in her home city of Brussels, Librairie Candide on Place Georges Brugmann in Ixelles, describing it as paradise for book lovers: it was open 7 days a week and you could pick a book and then devour it in the bakery next store, while devouring a pastry at the same time. ![]() Catherine Minne’s childhood bedroom was filled with books. She loved the “Bibliothèque rose” series from Hachette: Enyd Blyton’s: Oui-Oui (Noddy) Le Club des Cinq (The Famous Five) and George Chaulet’s Fantômette series about a superhero. ![]()
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