I don’t make a habit of using my blog to promote my employer, but now Bier&cO has pulled a stunt off – I’m so proud of it I want you all to know! Every Dutch StiBON Biersommelier, particularly those of the second exam round, will feel a shiver down their spine when I let them ...
Normally my ‘O Hell It’s Monday’ blogs are about something that annoys me and needs to get off my chest, but today it’s all Heaven. I have tasted three beers that I found to be so close to perfection that I may just as well call them perfect. I have met, shook hands and talked ...
“A flying crow always catches something”. These winged words (excuse me for the cheap pun) are often used by Gaius Voûte, CEO of Bier&cO and thus my boss. Beside the fact he’s a daintily chap we mainly know him for his aphorisms like the above, acquired in his domestic and abroad years. “Romeo Delta” is ...
It can’t get wacky enough for me – please, brewers of the world, keep them experiments coming! Sure, I may sometimes moan and groan about beers with over ten ingredients – I still want to try it and make my mind up! I do respect beers, however bluntly named, that stand out in terms of ...
Late October the Amsterdam ‘Beurs van Berlage’ sizzled once again because of the annual Bock beer festival - and for the first time in my life I did not attend. I planned to be somewhere else though, a little pain in the heart, but my reward was sweet. With my brother in law I went ...
I can safely say that what I experienced on Saturday 19 September was a pretty unique merging of crafts. Brandt & Levie, artisanal sausage makers in Amsterdam, hosted an exclusive tour of their premises followed by what was aptly named a ‘Worst Beer Dinner’. If you’re not Dutch, you don’t get the pun – but ...
Beschouw je mondiale grootbrouwers als AB InBev en Heineken als een gevaar voor de bierwereld?
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