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 ...
OHIM – Heineken and Misset Horeca Top 100 EURO revisited!
Quite the week it was in Beerland – and particularly since these two topics gave way to many emotions and replies, both here on the blog and on Facebook, a good reason to revisit them. Because if you ask me we’ve seen the start of a historical development in beer quality management - and a ...
TGIF – Fantastic product innovation: Heineken ‘Vers’!
A happy man, I am. For time and time again I have been pleading that beer gets a better treatment, by everyone handling it: keep it dark, keep it cool. Beer should be drank fresh, another one of my hobbyhorses. From a totally unexpected source I now get what I ask for. Unexpected, or just ...
Excitement all around: who will be winning Café Top 100 EURO?
Monday 16 November 2015 will see Misset Horeca announcing the first-ever winner of the Café Top 100 EURO. It will be an interesting moment, since what once started as the ‘Bar of the Year’ competition (and in 2003 was re-named to Café Top 100 so to actually rank bars between them) and grew to be ...
OHIM – beer fraternizes
Antwerp hosted the fourth edition of the aptly named ‘Brussels Beer Challenge’, an international beer competition that has built a big name for itself in a short time. For me it was the third time to come judging, but the first time to act as Table Captain. With 79 jurors and over 1,100 beers from ...
OHIM – sense and nonsense of house beer
Peter van der Arend, Zythologist and bar owner, is these days also a columnist for Misset Horeca. As with all he does, he does a great job at it. His last column was on the merits of House beer, a subject on which I happen to have an opinion too. Continue Reading...