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It’s not exactly about Belgium, but there will be a major beer festival right in my backyard this weekend here in Baltimore. The first edition of the Maryland Brewer’s Harvest Festival will be held at Bond Street Wharf in historic Fell’s Point, from 2pm to 6pm. There will be a VIP session from noon till…The post Maryla ...

Jean Van Roy released some big news today: Brasserie Cantillon has found a space where they can add lots of extra barrels and increase production by double over a four year period. The building is just 300 meters from Cantillon, and was the site of another lambic blendery, Brasserie Limbourg, which closed in the 1960′s.…The post B ...

This is a guest post by Carl Kins. Carl is very well known in beer circles in his native Belgium, as well as all over Europe and the U.S.A. He is a member of Zythos, The European Beer Consumer’s Union (E.B.C.U.) and other beer associations and groups. He is an International Beer Judge, and has…The post The Belgian brewery: fifty s ...

I’m happy to say that my first newspaper article was just published. A 600 word piece I wrote about Cantillon’s Bomb Shelter Beer Cellar, “Revered beer ages in a bomb shelter” was published on USA Today’s website yesterday, July 12. The article also features a dozen photos from the cellar. USA Today has about 1.3& ...

Heading to Belgium for a late summer trip this year, or thinking about it? If so, and you are a lambic/sour beer aficionado, I have some news for you. If you have no plans for a trip to “The Beer Country,” maybe I can change your mind. De Lambikstoempers, the premier Zythos-affiliated lambic beer promotion…The post THE Lambi ...

A short piece I wrote about one of Belgium’s great beer drinking spots, Cafe De Pandoerenhoeve and Heemerf Kaasstrooimolen, has been published in the July issue of All About Beer Magazine, on this page here, as part of a larger feature article by multiple authors about great places to drink beer outdoors. Just in time…The post De ...

It only opened a few years ago, but in my opinion, Cafe Rose Red is one of the top three beer cafes in the beautiful medieval city of Brugge (Bruges.) Kris Veireman, who is the general manager of both Hotel Cordoeanier and the attached cafe, is a very passionate beer lover who is a great…The post Cafe Rose Red, a great Bruges bar appear ...

Well, it’s been awhile since I posted Part I of this Rochefort series. Here is part 2, finally: A look behind the scenes in the Abbey, Church, and library at the Trappist ‘l Abbaye Notre Dame de St-Remy, and its Brasserie Rochefort. This April 2013 tour was given by Frère Pierre, the monk in charge…The post Trappistes ...

Our “Cafe of the Week” really isn’t a cafe, per se, but you can drink beer there. You can also buy beer to take home (or wherever else you plan to drink it. As long as you enjoy it.) Délices & Caprices calls itself: “The Belgian Beer Tasting Shop in the heart of Brussels,” and…The post Dél ...

I’m happy to say that I have a piece on the 2014 Zythos Beer Festival (ZBF) in the June/July issue of Celebrator Beer News. You can see the cover here and read the article beginning here There’s also a shot of a booth on the lower right side of page 3, here.The post ZBF (Zythos Beer Fest) article in Celebrator Beer News appeared fi ...