Gin festival coming to Belgium

Belgium is to open the largest gin bar in the world this month. The Jenever Museum (gin museum) in Hasselt, the largest gin bar in Belgium, is building the bar to mark the Jenever Festivities.

Other activities taking place will include a waiters' race and there will be a gin fountain, operating on an all-you-can-drink basis.

The bar will be opening on Saturday 20th and the celebrations run until Sunday 21st October. Davy Jacobs, coordinator of the Jenever Museum, said: "We have invited all 57 existing Belgian producers to celebrate this birthday with us.

"For them, we are building a mega-bar in the Witte Nonnenstraat and surroundings. The aim is that the jenever distillers will bring all their jenever flavours to Hasselt. Already more than 20 producers from Brussels, East and West Flanders and the rest of Belgium have promised to come."

"On average, each producer has about eight to ten flavours. So with a bit of luck we will be able to offer - on top of the 110 jenevers from the museum - another 500 kinds."