Rotterdam is a beautiful city - no joking - and just got better with the opening of two brew pubs: THOMS Stadsbrouwerij and De Gele Kanarie (The Yellow Canary). As you may know I am a firm believer of this concept: in this day and age, local, accessible and small-scale businesses are a big thing ...
Finally - fine dining, paired with beautiful beers, can now also be done in Amsterdam. Copenhagen, San Francisco, Brussel and New York have been having it for years. Amsterdam did have a few places taking beer seriously: Lieve (now Spingaren) and Restaurant Dwars, where chef Jo Vaessen worked with local ingredients and dito beers. Perhaps ...
Every year, the American Craft Brewers Conference offers instructive insights into the market where the beer revolution originated - the revolution that also inspired hundreds of new brewers and breweries and thousands of consumers in Europe, who all suddenly did understand that there is more than pils, blond, triple and witbier alone. More than 13,000 ...
I was recently in Prague to judge in a beer contest. Prague has a warm spot in my heart and I've been there many times, the last time being exactly ten years ago. The first time was over thirty years ago on a school trip and later I travelled here for Bier&cO (because we imported ...
Thursday 23 and Friday, February 24th, I judged the 'Czech and Moravian Beer Bottle Caps’, a beer contest with - how surprising - merely Czech and Moravian beers, in an original setup. Besides bottled beer we mostly judged beers from tap: a battery of twenty double-tap coolers were placed on a stage and during the ...
The 'OHIM'-blogs I like best are those in which there is really nothing to grumble, but where one can actually report exceptionally good news - this is one of them. And no, I have no interest in Tommie Sjef Wild Ales - I'd like to - but since the young man is playing a key ...
Beschouw je mondiale grootbrouwers als AB InBev en Heineken als een gevaar voor de bierwereld?
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