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  • THE Lambic Beer weekend in August

    THE Lambic Beer weekend in August

    Heading to Belgium for a late summer trip this year, or thinking about it? If so, and you are a lambic/sour beer aficionado, I have some news for you. If you have no plans for a trip to “The Beer Country,” maybe I can change your mind. 🙂 De Lambikstoempers, the premier Zythos-affiliated lambic beer…

  • ZBF (Zythos Beer Fest) article in Celebrator Beer News

    ZBF (Zythos Beer Fest) article in Celebrator Beer News

    I’m happy to say that I have a piece on the 2014 Zythos Beer Festival (ZBF) in the June/July issue of Celebrator Beer News. You can see the cover here and read the article beginning here There’s also a shot of a booth on the lower right side of page 3, here.

  • “Welcome to Lambic Country” article in All About Beer Magazine now on-line

    “Welcome to Lambic Country” article in All About Beer Magazine now on-line

    I’m happy to say that my cover feature in the March 2014 issue of All About Beer magazine is now on-line, for free, here Thanks to All About Beer for putting it on-line for all to see!

  • Leuven Beer Tasting and Talks, April 25th….

    Leuven Beer Tasting and Talks, April 25th….

    Next weekend, April 26-27, Belgium’s premier beer festival will be in full swing in Leuven’s Brabanthal. The Zythos Bier Festival (ZBF) will feature over 100 Belgian breweries and 500 different beers. The city of Leuven has fully embraced the festival and its local beer culture since the festival moved to Leuven in 2012. In fact,…

  • The Great Belgian Beer Dinner 2014 is next week in Ghent

    The Great Belgian Beer Dinner 2014 is next week in Ghent

    What is likely to be one of the most remarkable beer dinners in Belgium in 2014 is next week. The “Great Belgian Beer Dinner 2014” initially sold out so quickly for the Wednesday, April 23 date-in just 20 minutes or so-that an extra day, Tuesday the 22nd, was added. For next Wednesday, extra tables will…

  • Bier! Magazine available in English, for iPad

    Bier! Magazine available in English, for iPad

    Bier! Magazine, the leading Dutch magazine on the subject of artisanal beer in Belgium, the Netherlands, and further afield, is now available in English, for the iPad tablet platform. The magazine has been around since 2008, and the English version is brand-new as of issue 21. Editor-in-Chief Fedor Vogel was one of my judging colleagues…