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 ...
OHIM – the parallel between Internet and brewing beer
Someone who has always served me as an example in social media and innovation is the former journalist, music lover and internet guru Erwin Blom. For those of you who are unfamiliar with his Fast Moving Targets, which he makes together with Roeland Stekelenburg: look, enjoy and donate here. Bier&cO provides the beer - but ...
Beer survey by Mercure hotels presents interesting insights: does ‘women’s beer’ exist after all?!
International beer day, celebrated annually on the first Friday of August, saw Mercure hotels present the results of its Beer Survey. A thousand Dutch and Belgian beer drinkers answered a variety of questions on their preferences in style, drinking occasions and combining beer with food. The results were sometimes remarkable. A lot has been written about ...
OHIM – ABInBev accused of playing dirty; Heineken quarrels with Jumbo – small brewers win!
It has been both a hilarious as well as a glorious week for beer in the Netherlands, and thus the world. Midweek news hit us on ABInBev being accused of foul play on its former Home Turf, Belgium, which was followed of news that Heineken was quarreling with Jumbo, Holland’s second-largest supermarket. The weekend saw ...