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In the late 19th century Eindhoven was not the big city it is today. In the previous article you read about how Eindhoven had 5000 people before Phillips made it into the fifth city in the country. What Eindhoven did have was a number of breweries. In part of one of them the DAF motorcar builders started out with some throwbacks to this history ...

Ask anyone to describe a Dutch city and you will hear about gabled houses, canals and histories that go back deep into the Middle Ages or even before. This is mostly correct, with two notable exceptions. Rotterdam, though old, is now a modern vibrant harbortown unlike any other Dutch city. The other exception is the southern city of Eindhoven. ...

Label of ‘t Uiltje’s “Met Je Cascade Groene Trui”. Taken from Harry Pinkster’s WebsiteThis blog owes much of its existence of me translating websites and beer labels for American friends. So why not start a blog about Dutch beer but in English I thought! In five years information has become better and sites are now ...

And so we arrive at another milestone: 100 blogposts. 100 times that I, sometimes with help of others, have posted about the still growing Dutch beer scene. A small scene when I started 6 years ago, bigger now with the end not yet in sight. A great scene, a great culture of people who all share a love for well-made craft beer. This century of p ...

An hour before leaving for Oproer I get a message from Mark. He has something to do before meeting me in his new brewery and might run late. When I walk in 15 minutes after the doors opened he indeed isn’t there. Other people are getting ready for a new day at their new workplace. Twenty minutes later Mark walks in, carrying a new oven fo ...

Happy New Year Hello you lover of craft beer, you fan of Dutch beer. 2015 is already two weeks behind us, and 2016 promises to be another good, if not better, year for beer. I will again write about this beautiful product, as much as time and finances will let me. Because dear reader, I am glad to see that you keep visiting my blog. Last week i ...

Introduction When I started this blog over 5 years ago, Duits & Lauret were one of the first brewers I wrote about. Their stylish labels but most of all their well-made and balanced beers showed me that great beer was made in this country. And juries all over the world seemed to agree, not a competition goes by where they don’t win pr ...

Last weekend the annual Brussels Beer Challenge was held, a prestigious competition with breweries, and judges, from all over the world. Medals were awarded in several categories, making it an interesting competition because most brewers these days don’t start brewing with the intention of making for example a triple. They make what they ...

When darkness sets in earlier and earlier and when the wind outside has a cold streak in it you know that fall is just around the corner. If you’re a beer lover in this country this also means that the first bottles of bock beer will start to appear in the shops. Bock as a style is one that was present long before the current craft beer r ...

If you believe that adding orange peels and coriander in a wit, cherries in a geuze, or sugar in a bock is already pushing the limits of the definition of what beer is, than Borefts is not for you. If you get fits of anger when strange fruits, herbs and vegetables show up in the list of ingredients of some newfangled beer from Estonia, than Bor ...