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Groningen, that jewel in the north, the city I lived in until I left at age 20 to see other places on this planet. But it is still the city the majority of my family calls home and the city I am proud of to be from. In the years I lived there beer wasn’t on my mind, but music was. Groningen is an excellent city to grow up in if you love m ...

We already discussed Nordman and De Vriendschap, this installment in this series will be about the Amsterdam Brewboys. Also a new brewery that started in the last few months and with a story that in many ways mirrors that of the others. The brewboys are Pieter and Sebastiaan and starting the brewery came came out of the urge to do something new ...

It’s the middle of the summer. A group of our best brewers are at this moment in Portland spreading the word about how great Dutch beer actually is. This group consist mostly out of Brewers from Utrecht and the surrounding area. Amsterdam is represented with Het IJ and the city’s brightest prospect Oedipus. Those who remain are tryi ...

For a while the beer scene in Amsterdam was remarkably uneventful. Het IJ en De Prael were quite visible but for interesting craft beer you had to go somewhere else. But things are looking up and the number of new brewers from the capital is rising steadily. In this new series we will discuss a few of these brewers, and will look at what challe ...

In the coming weeks we will release a string of articles about the rising number of brewers in Amsterdam. Maybe there will be a separate Amsterdam beer festival soon but for now Amsterdam is still part of the province of Noord-Holland and that nice city in the middle of it, Alkmaar, was the host of the annual Noord-Hollands Beerfestival. Last y ...

The ten day period in the middle of May is turning into a great week for lovers of Dutch beer. Bars serve more Dutch beer and host tastings or food pairings. Breweries all over the country open their doors to the public, all in an attempt to spread the word of good craft beer among the ignorant masses. And these masses are willing to try that b ...

As a northerner I have often used these pages to lament the lack of good brewing from that even flatter part of the country I grew up in. Sure, Us Heit has been around for a long time and with Maallust and Golden Raand two newer ones came, but they never reached the level of brewing in the west. This is about to change. In April Bax Beer was re ...

Being outdoors on a lovely spring day enjoying the sun and awakening nature is a perfect outlook for a day off. Like all our walks through the Dutch countryside we have a goal that is related to beer and this time it is Brouwerij De Molen and the nearby Speciaal Bier Winkel in Bodegraven. Once a year Bodegraven is the Walhalla for beer enthusia ...

People who read this blog but have only spent little or no time in this country often ask me the what which beer related places they should visit. Since Amsterdam is often the first and only destination it will feature in the first installment of a new series: Dutch beer for tourists! Amsterdam, the city I was fortunate enough to live in for ov ...

Let’s not start this article with yet another description of what trappist beer is. Chances are the average visitor of this blog will already know and if you don’t, a simple visit to Wikipedia should provide you with all the answers. What might be a little less known is that in the last few years new breweries have started that can ...