Patrasche Beer: A Taste of Belgium in Japan
For many Belgians living in Japan, home is often remembered through small traditions rather than grand occasions. It could be the familiar sound of glasses…
For many Belgians living in Japan, home is often remembered through small traditions rather than grand occasions. It could be the familiar sound of glasses…
Some memories stay with you through familiar flavors. A relaxed Sunday afternoon, a lively conversation around the dining table, or a gathering with friends after…
The familiar sound of glasses meeting across a crowded table has a way of bringing Belgium back in an instant. It might remind you of…
The first sip can bring back more than flavor. It can remind you of a long Sunday lunch where conversations stretched from one course to…
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…
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…