About us
De Mederie produces mead (honey wine) and cider. De Mederie was founded by Jorre. He started 12 years ago as a passionate beer brewer, but wanted to use his expertise for lesser-known, delicious drinks, venturing into the production of mead and cider. All meads are barrel-aged and a significant number of ciders undergo the same process.
Jorre's passion and experience as a craft beer brewer is the basis for De Mederie. From the age of 17 until now he did internships at home and abroad and studied biochemistry.
The ciders are exclusively spontaneously fermented, made from locally picked apples and a portion of cider apples from Normandy, which are bought annually during a special trip. Based on the creativity and experience of the craft beer world, a diverse range of ciders is introduced this article.
Mead, cider, beer, fruitwine, ...
After that, he worked as a brewer at, among others, the Struise brewers, his mentor. Brewery Alvinne, Brewery De Meester, Brewery Stroom in Ghent and several other breweries known for quality & creativity.
Jorre Vanhemmens
Brewer and founder of De Mederie. Besides the passion for brewing, hobbies: pizza maker, basketball player, drummer, and vinyl DJ.
Ferme Du Ruisseau, location
Beautiful family farm where De Mederie is located. In Pottes, a village on the border between Flanders/Wallonia/France.
Literally, design & photography
Literally, is a visual design studio by Edouard Schneider & Killian Longueville. They love to link digital to analogue and print to motion.
Family & independent
Although no one besides Jorre works at De Mederie, we can achieve a lot thanks to the support of family and friends. We also have some win-win loans that allow us to work independently of the bank.
Own festival & beer
Potbier was brewed for our own festival 'Fête Musicale'.
Gizzly
Grizzly was first developed at the start of De Mederie, a hoppy saison with mosaic hops.
Gank
Brewed once: Indian Pale Lager
A bit like Grizzly but with different hops and lager yeast.
Sour For The Soul
3 Sour Fruit Beers in collaboration with Brouwbar and brewed at Alvinne.
De Mederie crowdfunding & start production!
First barrel mead referencing the favorite album of The Red Hot Chili Peppers: 'Blood Sugar Sex Magik'.
Experimead Series
With this series of meads, the plan is to create a unique mead per barrel each time. We bottle these and make them only once, all limited editions.
Meesterie
Double New England IPA
brewed together by De Mederie & Brouwerij De Meester.
Cuvee de Mortagnerie
Collab with brewery Alvinne. A braggot = beer + mead hybrid.
Extremely complex braggot with bourbon barrel aged quadrupel and red wine barrel aged cherry mead.
Silver at EU mead competition 2022.
Black River
One of the best from the experimead series has been refined into a regular mead.
500 grams/L of blackcurrants and a whole lot of honey!
The name comes from a song by @Mooneye
Could Heaven Ever be like this?
Yes! a super unique collab with 3 Fonteinen. Young and old lambic blended with cherry and blackcurrant mead.
