After a joke that got out of hand, Ruinen has its own beer: Jutndel. ‘In the beginning the beer was blue and we yellow. Now it’s turned around nicely

Sticker machines, detailed logbooks on a laptop and brewing vats of hundreds of liters. In the small-scale, but modern brewery on the Kloosterstraat in Ruinen, Roel van Bezoen, Jan Rolf Staal, Martijn ter Bork and Dolf Russchen work on the first commercial beers from Jutndel, the new local lager, on Saturday morning. An India Pale Ale (IPA), this time. The equipment is carefully cleaned and the malt is carefully weighed.