It's been a couple of months, so I thought I'd repeat it again: My new website, DrinkBelgianBeer.com, is now live. This blog will not be updated with any new material any more...so please poin...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2013/12/just-remindercheck-out.html
I haven't been posting much here of late, and there's a good reason for that. It's called drinkbelgianbeer.com . Yes, my new website is finally live. Please head on over and take a look!...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2013/10/drinkbelgianbeercom-is-live.html
Photo: Brian Strumke, smelling the wort Brian Strumke, the gypsy brewer behind Stillwater Artisanal Ales , and The Brewer's Art have teamed up again to produce a couple of new beers. ...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2013/09/stillwater-artisanal-and-brewers-art.html
Below is a link to photos from a fabulous beer dinner at Ebenezer's Pub in Lovell, Maine, last week. I'll be writing about the dinner in various publications. I'll post info here about t...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2013/08/ebenezers-belgian-beer-dinner-2013.html
(Photo, above: Gert Christiaens, Oud Beersel) Gert Christiaens doesn't get away from his Oud Beersel lambic blendery very often. The demand for his excellent lambic, Oude Geuze, Oude ...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2013/08/lambic-experts-to-speak-at-ebenezers.html
Well, looooong time no post here. Moving for the first time in five years, and writing content for a new website will do that to you. New website, you say? Yep. More on that later this su...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2013/07/four-fabulous-cafes-in-payottenland.html
ZBF, Belgium´s biggest beer festival, begins in two days. There are lots of special brews that will be offered, such as the unblended version of Liefmans Kriek. There will also be 200 liter...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2013/04/dry-hopped-girardin-oude-lambik-to.html
(M Cafe, a great new bar in Leuven.) Well, it's less than 2 weeks now to the second time the Zythos Bier Festival (ZBF) will be held in Leuven, Belgium. (Part of the beer board at M C...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2013/04/leuvens-extra-muros-event-zbf-weekend.html
This Sint-Sixtus Abdij/Westvleteren bottle likely dates to the late 1940's or early 1950's, and is one of the few I have seen from Westvleteren with a label. I have heard different st...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2013/03/late-1940s-1950s-st-sixtus-abdij.html
3 Fonteinen has a new brewery, and it will soon be officially christened. I can't give details, but watch this space for news. Check out the brewery's new logo, above. Disregard the leafs...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2013/03/3-fonteinens-new-brewery-set-to-be.html
(Photo, above: from left, Dr. Filip Delvaux, Dr. Freddy Delvaux, and Peter Delvaux, inside the new but still under construction brewhouse, at Brouwerij De Kroon.) ...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2013/03/biercentrum-delvaux-and-brouwerij-de.html
It's a shame this 1963 Abdy Westvleteren bottle is empty. Perhaps this one contained the mighty 12, or Abt as it was known in those days. Must have been a good one. Or a great one. ...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2013/03/1963-abdy-westvleteren-bottle.html
I'm a little late posting this, but as it is still the current issue, I'll tell you that I have a 1,000+ word piece on several Belgian subjects in the February/March issue of Ale Street ...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2013/03/belgian-babble-column-in-ale-street.html
I'm happy to say that I have a nearly 1,000 word piece on three of Belgium's best spring beer festivals in the second issue of BUZE Magazine. BUZE is a digital magazine targeted at tablet...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2013/02/belgian-spring-beer-fests-article-in.html
I'm happy to say that I have a nearly 1,000 word article on the new project of Hildegard and Bas van Ostaden in the February/March issue of Celebrator Beer News. I wrote about Microbro...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2013/02/microbrouwerij-urthel-and-de-hoppeschuur.html
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen is almost ready to brew again, probably sometime this month. Look for a full report on the new brewery and 3 Fonteinen's future, soon. Meanwhile, check out the photo s...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2013/01/3-fonteinens-new-brewery-sign.html
I know it's not about Belgium, and not directly about beer... but here's a link to a little slideshow I put together from photos of my tour at the Trappist Abbaye du Mont des Cats Fromager...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2013/01/trappist-abbaye-du-mont-des-cats-cheese.html
I have a 1,300 word article in the December 2012/ January 2013 issue of Celebrator Beer News, titled "New Breweries Fermenting in Old Belgium." Brewer Anne-Cathérine Dilewyns with ...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2013/01/new-breweries-fermenting-in-old-belgium.html
Another day, and another magazine debut. With a Belgian beer article. Gotta love it. Happy Friday. BÜZE Magazine: A Modern Drinks Resource, in the works for a number of months, is no...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2012/12/buze-magazine-debuts-with-antwerp.html
I'm happy to report that a great beer magazine has been resurrected after a more than three year hiatus. Beers of the World, of the U.K., which stopped publication in 2009 after four yea...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2012/12/beers-of-world-magazine-returns-with.html
When I first visited lambic brewer Brouwerij Timmermans of Itterbeek in November 2008, I was impressed. Belgian reporter/photographer Danny Van Tricht and I tasted several different vi...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2012/12/brouwerij-timmermans-new-beers-new.html
On Saturday, December 8, one of Belgium's premier lambic events will be held at its premier lambic beer cafe: In de Verzekering Tegen de Grote Dorst (In the Insurance Against the Grea...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-day-of-lambic-is-in-2-weeks.html
First: Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it! OK, back to Belgium. During my visits to 130 Belgian breweries and over 300 beer specialist cafes since 1994, I have captured about 25...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2012/11/belgian-beer-brewery-and-cafe-images.html
Vanberg & DeWulf's "Coast to Coast Toast" returns for a second year this Thursday, November 15. V&D founders Don Feinberg and Wendy Littlefield created the Toast last year to celebrate thei...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-coast-to-coast-toast-part-2-is-this.html
Belgium has a "new" beer, and it's an interesting one. "Seefbier" was launched in Belgium in March, and what was projected as a seven-month supply sold out in two weeks! The driving...
http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2012/11/seefbier-and-old-antwerp-style-is-reborn.html