Belgian Beer Specialist

I was honored to be a Taster (Judge) at the second edition of the Brussels Beer Challenge the first weekend in November. Held at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Liege, the competition featured nearly 600 beers from 15 countries around the world, and 52 International beer judges. I was one of only four judges from…

Flanders Today, an English-language newspaper aimed at covering events in Belgium’s Dutch-speaking northern half for ex-pats and other English speakers, has covered the Belgian Family Brewers Press trip that I was a part of last week. You can read it here

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…

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…

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…