Patrasche Beer: A Taste of Belgium in Japan
Most Belgians are mildly surprised to learn how well-known A Dog of Flanders is in Japan. Ouida’s 1872 novel — set in the Flemish countryside…
Most Belgians are mildly surprised to learn how well-known A Dog of Flanders is in Japan. Ouida’s 1872 novel — set in the Flemish countryside…
Sunday in Shinjuku, after the church service lets out and someone’s apartment fills up faster than anyone planned. The table expands, the food appears from…
The roast goose is finished, the plum sauce bowl is empty, and the table has settled into the part of the evening that has no…
A familiar taste can bring back an entire place. For many Germans living in Japan, it might be the memory of meeting friends after work,…
Pêche means peach in French, and the Floris Pêche does exactly what the name says. It is a Belgian witbier base carrying a sweet peach…
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 smell of moo ping smoke drifting from a cart at 6 p.m. The condensation on a cold Chang bottle passing between hands before anyone…
The Roppongi pub is exactly what it is supposed to be: dark wood, a match on the screen, and a pint glass filled with pale…
Most hefeweizens are compared to each other. The Weihenstephan Hefe Weiss is the one everything else gets compared to. That is not marketing language —…
Lambic is one of the oldest and most specific beer traditions in the world — spontaneously fermented using wild yeasts from the Senne valley in…