Monk’s Cafe Sour Ale Beer: A Taste of Belgium in Japan
The familiar sound of glasses meeting across a crowded table has a way of bringing Belgium back in an instant. It might remind you of…
The familiar sound of glasses meeting across a crowded table has a way of bringing Belgium back in an instant. It might remind you of…
The first sip can bring back more than flavor. It can remind you of a long Sunday lunch where conversations stretched from one course to…
There is a particular kind of Sunday afternoon that Belgians in Japan describe the same way, no matter where in Belgium they grew up: the…
Almost every winter, somewhere between Tokyo and Kobe, a small group of Belgians gathers around a table set with cheese, dark bread, and bottles that…
Framboise means raspberry in French, and the Lindemans Framboise is the raspberry expression of a lambic tradition that Brouwerij Lindemans has maintained in Vlezenbeek since…
Lambic is one of the oldest and most specific beer traditions in the world — spontaneously fermented using wild yeasts from the Senne valley in…
The name requires a moment. La Guillotine — named in remembrance of the French Revolution, the instrument that ended a great many things very suddenly…
There is a particular kind of afternoon that the Hoegaarden White belongs to — warm enough that something cold is necessary, relaxed enough that the…
Pierre Celis revived the Hoegaarden witbier tradition in 1965 with a recipe built on coriander and dried orange peel — the spice combination that defines…
Most Belgians and most people outside Belgium know Hoegaarden as a witbier — the cloudy, coriander-and-orange-peel wheat beer that the town of Hoegaarden in Flemish…