Chimay White Beer: A Taste of Belgium in Japan
Among Chimay’s range, the White is the one that surprises people who arrive expecting the brewery’s darker, maltier character. Where the Red leads with caramel…
Among Chimay’s range, the White is the one that surprises people who arrive expecting the brewery’s darker, maltier character. Where the Red leads with caramel…
The stubby brown bottle is the first thing most people recognise. Red Stripe has one of the more distinctive silhouettes in the lager category —…
The pint sits on the bar, opaque black, and it takes a moment before anyone reaches for it — this is not a beer you…
You were not drinking Federbrau every night — it was the one you ordered when the occasion felt slightly different. A birthday dinner in Bangkok,…
The name Cinq Cents — five hundred — refers to the 500th anniversary of the town of Chimay, and it is the name the brewery…
There is a particular table at the Irish pub where the hop conversation happens — where someone is comparing this batch to the last one,…
It was not the special-occasion beer. It was the one already on the table when you arrived, the one someone grabbed from the convenience store…
On the southern bank of the Danube, where the river bends through Upper Austria between Passau and Linz, the Cistercian abbey of Stift Engelszell has…
A Trappist tripel in a can is not a contradiction. The beer inside is the same pale gold, spicy, citrus-edged recipe that Scourmont Abbey has…
The bottle arrives cloudy, which is the first thing anyone notices about it. In an Irish pub built around clear lagers and black stouts, a…