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…
The Abbaye Notre-Dame de Saint-Rémy sits in a valley in the Ardennes, in the French-speaking province of Namur, and the monks there have been connected…
Affligem Abbey was founded in 1074 in what is now Flemish Brabant, and the monks there have been connected to brewing for nearly as long…
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…
Framboise means raspberry in French, and the Lindemans Framboise is the raspberry expression of a lambic tradition that Brouwerij Lindemans has maintained in Vlezenbeek since…
Lambic is one of the oldest and most specific beer traditions in the world — spontaneously fermented using wild yeasts from the Senne valley in…
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…