I don’t make a habit of using my blog to promote my employer, but now Bier&cO has pulled a stunt off – I’m so proud of it I want you all to know! Every Dutch StiBON Biersommelier, particularly those of the second exam round, will feel a shiver down their spine when I let them ...
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 ...
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), ...
Just four years ago all the beer you could get in Austria was strictly limited to locally produced Helles, Keller or Märzen, with the occasional German Weizen and the odd Bockbier thrown in for fun. Oh, and there were Pilseners of course. You had to search long and hard for an English Ale, a Belgian ...
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 ...
Jonnie and Thérèse Boer You may recall an earlier blog post about Dutch restaurant De Librije (3 Michelin Star, #38 World’s Best Restaurant) in Zwolle launching a beer menu, next to the wine menu. Together with my colleague Willem Habing we presented a tasting for De Librije’s sommeliers which led to this menu. What we ...
Beschouw je mondiale grootbrouwers als AB InBev en Heineken als een gevaar voor de bierwereld?
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