Martin’s IPA 55 Beer: A Taste of Belgium in Japan
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…
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…
On the belfry of Ghent’s city hall, there is a golden dragon weathervane that has surveyed the city for centuries — a symbol of East…
The Belgian tripel is one of the most technically demanding styles to produce well — pale gold despite its strength, spicy yeast character from high-temperature…
An IPA is one of the harder styles to produce without gluten. The hop character — citrus, pine, firm bitterness — requires a malt base…