Lost Beers

What can be more fun than just driving around Belgium and see wat you bump into?

Last time, I wrote about my first impressions of Belgian Beer World.

The tourist season is here again, and for a beer tourist, there’s no better place than Belgium.

Congratulations to Jopen in 2014: it was exactly thirty years ago that this brewery released its first beer, and the taps are still running, in their home town Haarlem.

A typical beer tradition of the Netherlands: bock beer.

Recently, I was invited by Christopher Quinn and Mike Schallau of the Chicago-based Beer Temple podcast to join them to talk about saison history and on Belgian and Dutch beer history in general.

It will happen someday: my book on the history of Belgian beers.

Time to look another long lost Belgian beer, this time from Lier, a nice old little town on the Nete river.

Studying Belgian beer history can be overwhelming.

Saddened by the emptiness its passing leaves in our lives, but deeply thankful for all the great moments we shared together, and shocked that the end was more sudden than we expected, we now say goodbye to… Wieckse Witte.