Tesselaar family brewery Diks
When I mention Texel the first thing family and friends mention is a visit to the Texelse beer brewery. Well to be honest after this long weekend on the isle the first brewery which pops up in my mind won't be this brewery but the Tesselaar family brewery Diks. A small brewery where you are welcomed home, with an enthusiatic family that produces a small line of well crafted and sublime tasting beers (father Maurice Diks was for years the brewmaster of the Texelse and quite so ms beers are from his hand), which are served in a cosy tasting room. Things and encounters happen for a reason. On Thursday we visited a local retailer in De Koog, when someone with a Tesselaar logo on his shirt walked in and checked the stock. I asked him, later it turned out to be Jasper Diks, if it was possible to visit the brewery and do a tour. There were no tours on Thursday and the tour on Saturday was already full, but we were welcome in the tasting room. So after shopping we drove t...