Friday’s are not what they used to be anymore. At first glance it seemed amusing: a simple Untappd user checked into a beer by Evil Twin, detected diacetyl and put that in his review. That review was a sign of the times: written as if by a blind bat suffering from dyslexia, Chris B. (the ...
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 ...
28Nov 2016
OHIM – Peter de Waard and Peer Swinkels have been eating some real bad mushrooms
Had it not been so sad, I would probably still be laughing about a newspaper article that appeared in De Volkskrant, a Dutch newspaper not normally known for its sense of humor. It is written by Peter de Waard who regularly writes on business and the economy. Saturday, 26 November 2016, he published an article ...
14Nov 2016
OHIM – Beer Craziness
Sometimes there’s nothing to write about – like the past week – and then suddenly it all falls together. Judging in Belgium with Brussels Beer Challenge a weekend ago, some ‘incidents’ that in themselves are futile occurred – in combination with other issues they are all but futile. So, here goes another tirade – Oh ...
03Nov 2016
Beer and food pairing – where did it go wrong?!
Beer, being the hottest topic anywhere these days, has been regaining its rightful position at the dinner table. Gone are the days where beer, as a companion of food, was seen only fit to accompany a curry or fish and chips: beer is now even being embraced by three Michelin star restaurants. But even today ...
30Sep 2016
TGIF: It’s not just craft beer, also spirits who freak Big Brewers out.
I have never been a big spirits drinker, although I rather drink a G&T than a poor lager. Last summer holiday in a Turkish all-inclusive turned out to be soaked in G&T. I never thought Heineken would get pissed off by G&T though – but it did. Read how they try to screw a hard-working ...
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