Timamant Blanchet Beer: A Taste of Belgium in Japan
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…
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…
The stoneware swing-top bottle is the first thing most people notice about the St. Sebastiaan range. In a market full of glass bottles with paper…
Brouwerij De Block in Peizegem, Flemish Brabant, has been making beer since 1919, and the Satan range is their most recognised export — a family…
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…
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…
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…