Chimay Blue Grande Reserve Beer: A Taste of Belgium in Japan
The Chimay Blue is a beer most Belgians know. The Grande Réserve is the version that asks something different of you: patience. It is the…
The Chimay Blue is a beer most Belgians know. The Grande Réserve is the version that asks something different of you: patience. It is the…
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…
In 2012, the monks of Scourmont Abbey marked one hundred and fifty years of brewing by releasing a beer that sits outside their standard range.…
Bruges is a city that takes its beer seriously in the way that only a place with two centuries of uninterrupted practice can. The canals,…
The Weizenbock is what happens when a wheat beer stops being modest. The banana and clove yeast character that defines a standard hefeweizen is still…
A hefeweizen poured correctly takes time. The bottle needs to be rolled gently before opening — not shaken, but turned slowly to rouse the yeast…
The German pilsner is a different beer from its Czech cousin, and most Germans will tell you so without being asked. Where the Bohemian original…
The word “original” gets used loosely in brewing. Weihenstephan uses it with more justification than most. The brewery on the hill above Freising has been…
Saint Korbinian arrived in Freising in the early eighth century, established the diocese that would anchor Bavarian Christianity for centuries, and left his name on…
Most hefeweizens are compared to each other. The Weihenstephan Hefe Weiss is the one everything else gets compared to. That is not marketing language —…