Gist are on a mission to bring traditional British cask ale to Brussels. And they’re succeeding.
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Gist are on a mission to bring traditional British cask ale to Brussels. And they’re succeeding.
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Behind the scenes at Emaillerie Belge, Belgium’s last producer of enamel beer adverts.
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Climate change is coming for lambic, and it will be hard for Cantillon to stop it.
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Want to know how to survive the Belgian Beer Weekend, the annual bacchanalia on Brussels' Grand Place? Then read on...
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The Brussels new wave beer scene continues apace. First cam the beer bars. Then came the breweries. And now it is the turn of the beer festivals. After the Swaff festival in July, this weekend it is the turn of the BXLBeerFest, what will be the largest beer festival dedicated to small, independent (craft, even) breweries organised in Brussels.
Over bottles of Orval at A la Mort Subite, Kevin Desmet – a.k.a. the Belgian Beer Geek – told me about the background to the festival, Brussels beer compromises, and why they think you should go to BXLBeerFest.
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Change comes slowly to Brussels. But it is coming to the corner of Brussels where the unfashionable communes of Koekelberg, Jette, and Ganshoren meet at Parc Elisabeth in a jigsaw puzzle of municipal borders. Hotel Restaurant Taverne Le Frederiksborg and Bar Eliza represent old and new Brussels, and show in their contrasting fortunes how accelerating demographic changes are reshaping the neighbourhood. They also serve beer.
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