A pure-grain juniper distilled from a fermented mash of malted rye and barley grains. Its recipe is ancestral, 100% natural, and does not tolerate any chemical additives. Its name translates as "miners' jenever".
An authentic product of the Walloon region, it exists only in its traditional stoneware bottle, which protects it from light.
The patience, precision, passion and know-how of our Master Distiller give this all-too-frequently overused aperitif its fine balance and unique organoleptic personality.
Peket dè Houyeu owes its name to the miners, masters of coal. It is still the traditional drink of the "confrêrèye dès mêsses houyeûs dè payis d'lîdge" brotherhood. Translate: "la confrérie des Maîtres Mineurs du Pays de Liège", which preserves and maintains the traditions and memories of miners' life in Liège. The members of this brotherhood taste it at each of their chapters. It is even part of the ritual for inducting candidates into the brotherhood. They taste it during the ceremony held at the bottom of the mine (on the Blegny-Mine tourist estate).
Former miners sometimes even add a prune to a glass of Peket dè Houyeu. An original way of sweetening the spirit, which is then called "gayette", the prune symbolizing a lump of coal or "gayette" in Walloon.