The Belgian Brewers Association has come up with a new campaign to raise awareness, within Belgium, about…Belgian beer. They have created a new flag, called the National Beer flag. It is the same as the Belgian flag, except that the top part of the yellow color in the middle of the flag is white, so…

I’m happy to say that I have seen issue #2 of Belgian Beer and Food magazine, and it’s a superb one. Publisher/Editor-in-Chief Paul Walsh, along with Contributing Editor Alan Hope and Copy Editor Joe Stange, have produced a beautiful, highly-informative, interesting issue, full of professional-quality images from the Belgian beer world. West Flanders is a…

I’m happy to report that my Belgian Babble column for the February/March issue of Ale Street News runs about 1,250 words this issue. I cover Brouwerij Van Campenhout, Brouwerij De Schuur, Brouwerij Hof Ten Dormaal, De Kleine Duivel, Max’s Taphouse, Brasserie Dupont, and Brasserie Dubuisson. You can see the article below. I hope you enjoy…

As a part of the continued development of this website, we will be doing more beer reviews in the future. If you would like to send us Belgian or Belgian-inspired brews for tasting and review, let us know at higrav (the number ONE) AT gmail.com Here is an example of a review

All About Beer Magazine asked me for some Belgian beer travel tips for their on-line site, to coincide with the publication of my Lambic article in the March 2014 issue. There are also suggestions from Wendy Littlefield of Vanberg & DeWulf Importers. You can read the tips here

Christine Celis, daughter of the esteemed Pierre Celis, who resurrected white beer in Hoegaarden in 1966, has brewed a Belgian-inspired IPA in the U.S.A. Christine and the last brewmaster at the Celis brewery in Austin, Kim Clarke, brewed the beer, Gypsy Belgian IPA, at Adelbert’s Brewery in Austin, Texas. It was released on draft and…

Beers of the World magazine, perhaps the premier beer magazine in the U.K., is back. This time, the magazine has gone digital. I wrote for Beers of the World about a half dozen times in the past, beginning in 2006, on the subject of Belgian beer. Most recently, I had an article on the beer…

This week, we welcome guest writer Carl Kins back to the site. Carl, an internationally known beer judge and author, lives in Kortrijk, West Flanders. You can read his full bio in this article here. Below is Carl’s take on all the recent press predicting the demise of the Trappist breweries in Belgium. From Carl:…

No, I didn’t say Belgian beer and chocolate. We all know they pair well, but how about putting Belgian beer inside chocolate? Let’s talk about chocolate. Because I like chocolate. So do a lot of other people, too. People with good taste. Yes, sounds like a great idea? In fact, Belgium-the greatest producer of artisanal…

There have been a number of articles in the last few weeks in several well-known media outlets that have sounded the alarm about the status and viability of brewing at the world’s Trappist breweries, primarily those in Belgium. One article, in Forbes.com, here, even went so far as to claim that the Orval Trappist brewery,…