Budějovický Budvar Czech Lager Beer: A Taste of Czech Republic in Japan
České Budějovice has been brewing beer since the thirteenth century, and the name of the town is the origin of a word that most people…
České Budějovice has been brewing beer since the thirteenth century, and the name of the town is the origin of a word that most people…
On December 6 each year — St. Nicholas Day — the brewers at Schloss Eggenberg in Vorchdorf, Upper Austria, begin a batch of Samichlaus. The…
In 1922, a Munich innkeeper named Franz Xaver Kugler found himself facing a problem: thirteen thousand cyclists had arrived at his establishment outside the city,…
Austria’s wheat beer tradition runs through Salzburg, and the brewery that anchors it has been operating since 1646. Hofbräu Kaltenhausen is the oldest wheat beer…
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…
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 relationship between the Netherlands and Japan is older than most bilateral histories between Western and Asian countries. For two centuries during Japan’s sakoku period,…
An amber ale sits between styles in a way that makes it one of the most food-friendly beers a brewery can produce. Not as light…
Itterbeek is a small community in Flemish Brabant, southwest of Brussels, sitting in the Pajottenland — the same landscape that produces the wild-fermented lambic beers…
The stoneware swing-top bottle that Sterkens Brewery uses for the St. Sebastiaan range is the same vessel whether the beer inside is the Dark or…