Hoegaarden Grand Cru Beer: A Taste of Belgium in Japan
Pierre Celis revived the Hoegaarden witbier tradition in 1965 with a recipe built on coriander and dried orange peel — the spice combination that defines…
Pierre Celis revived the Hoegaarden witbier tradition in 1965 with a recipe built on coriander and dried orange peel — the spice combination that defines…
The fan overhead is doing its best. You’re at a table with colleagues, your shirt is sticking to the back of the chair, and someone…
The pint sits on the bar, opaque black, and it takes a moment before anyone reaches for it — this is not a beer you…
The Chimay Blue is the beer that Belgians reach for when the occasion requires something they do not have to explain. It has been in…
Green apple has a specific kind of tartness — not the rounded sweetness of a red apple, not the sharpness of a straight-fermented cider, but…
There is a particular cold that settles into Colombo’s evenings when the rains have just passed — the kind that makes you want something with…
It is halftime, the score is level, and someone has just opened the last round before the second half starts. The dim sum from earlier…
The Sunday biergarten table fills slowly and stays for hours. The chestnut trees provide the shade, the bratwurst arrives before anyone has decided on a…
Belgium takes chocolate seriously enough to have built an export industry around it, and it takes beer seriously enough to have one of the deepest…
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,…