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…
Peizegem is barely a village — a scatter of brick houses and a church spire in Flemish Brabant, less than an hour from Brussels. If…
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…
There is a particular kind of Sunday afternoon that Belgians in Japan describe the same way, no matter where in Belgium they grew up: the…
Almost every winter, somewhere between Tokyo and Kobe, a small group of Belgians gathers around a table set with cheese, dark bread, and bottles that…
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…