St. Sebastiaan Dark Beer: A Taste of Belgium in Japan
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…
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…
The Floris Strawberry Beer pours rose-pink, which is not a colour most people associate with Belgium’s brewing tradition. It is the Floris range’s most immediately…
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…