As long as I can remember the place was café Amstelvaart, or really café-billiard, and that confounded billiards table was inconveniently placed in the centre of the pub. I have been in once and didn’t stay long: although rumor has it this place was the oldest pub in De Pijp (as the area is called), ...
12Dec 2016
OHIM – Can someone please calm those Belgian’s down?
I am the last person on Planet Earth to deny Belgian brewers rank amongst the best in the world and they brew some damn good beer, but I was amazed about the way many Belgians twisted and turned the recent placement of their beer culture on Unesco’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of ...
01Dec 2016
TGIF – WHEN EMOTION RUNS HIGH, ONE SHOULD NOT LOOSE ONES SENSE
It was a short and clean message on Facebook: Brewery Pampus, named after the historical island where ships had to anchor at low tide before they could enter the harbor of Amsterdam, announced it will be changing name, logo and image as per 1 January 2017.Continue Reading...
26Sep 2016
OHIM – OPEN LETTER TO MR. ANTOINE BOSTEELS, BREWERY BOSTEELS
Dear Mr. Bosteels – congratulations with you recently selling your family brewery to AB InBev. I have to admit I don’t get it – I mean, why you did it. I wrote a similar Open Letter to Mr. Carlos Britto a fortnight ago, since I couldn’t understand his motivation either. I am hoping you can ...
12Sep 2016
OHIM – OPEN LETTER TO MR. CARLOS BRITO, MEGABREW
Dear Mr. Brito – congratulations with your most recent purchase, adding Brewery Bosteels to your already huge portfolio of brands. I have to admit I don’t get it – I mean, why you did it. And albeit I realize you’re infinitely smarter than I am, you see and know things I don’t and most likely ...
28Jun 2016
Beer Passion and the Passion of Beer: one weekend, two faces
The past weekend, the last weekend of June 2016, was both an epic as well as a confusing beer weekend. Limiting myself to just two of the beery things that went on in Europe those three days, the contrast couldn’t have been bigger. We saw Beer Passion executed in Antwerp and Amsterdam – and it ...
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