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Chuck Cook interviewed on Belgian TV and Radio
I had a short interview with Belgium’s VTM News (Flanders) last Wednesday, 6 November, while at a beer and cheese tasting at Brouwerij Duvel-Moortgat, during the Belgian Family Brewers press trip. Several other members of the press trip were interviewed as well. VTM news has a viewership of one million people. You can see the…
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“B’ More Belgian” beer event at Hudson Street Stackhouse
For the third year in a row, I am involved with a local event featuring Belgian beer. We will have 36 Belgian brews pouring from yesterday, October 21, through Thursday, October 24th, at Hudson Street Stackhouse here in Baltimore. The location is 2626 Hudson Street In Canton, near the Safeway. I helped select most of…
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A talk with Vanberg & DeWulf founders Don Feinberg and Wendy Littlefield
Thirty-two years ago, Don Feinberg and Wendy Littlefield began importing Belgian beer to the USA. The husband and wife team still do. “In 1982, Belgian beer was virtually unknown here,” Feinberg commented, during our recent interview. I asked: “You first started importing Belgian beer in 1982. What was it like then?” Feinberg responded: “It was…
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Slow Beer Club, Festibière Gembloux, and Beergusto.com
Zythos, the beer appreciation and promotion society which organizes Belgium’s premier beer festival, ZBF (Zythos Beer Fest) will soon have its first affiliated chapter in French-speaking Wallonia, “Slow Beer Club.” As of late September, all 40 of the Zythos-affiliated clubs were located in Dutch-speaking Flanders. “There are over 3,600 members of Zythos. All members belong…
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Second “Brussels Beer Challenge” to be held in November
The second edition of the “Brussels Beer Challenge” will be held in Liege (Luik in Dutch) from November 1 to 3. In the BBC’s first year, in Brussels, 500 beers from sixteen different countries were tasted and judged by 40 international beer experts. The aim of The Brussels Beer Challenge is to bring a prominent…