Women of Brussels Beer // Marta Resmini and Cleo Mombaers, Brasserie de la Senne

Criticism and Comment, Breweries and BarsEoghan Walsh27 March 2020feminism, women in beer, brasserie de la senne, cleo mombaers, zinnebir, marta resmini, taras boulba, molenbeek

Brussels beer x Brussels food face-off #3 // Pottekeis

Pairing Brussels culinary delights with the city’s beers. This time - classic Brussels pottekeis with a bretted saison and classic Brussels gueuze

Cuisine and CultureEoghan Walsh20 September 2019ettekeis, pottekeis, saison, Cantillon, food pairing, brasserie de la senne, Gueuze, melissa cole

Gulp // Cask ale comes to Brussels

Gist are on a mission to bring traditional British cask ale to Brussels. And they’re succeeding.

Breweries and BarsEoghan Walsh21 June 2019Brussels, molenbeek, brasserie de la senne, Yvan De Baets, cask ale, Gist, Lanterne, nanobrasserie l'ermitage, Anspach and Hobday, No Science, Noisy Pale Ale, brussels beer project

Brussels beer x Brussels food face-off #5 // Américain

Pairing Brussels culinary delights with the city’s beers. This time - classic Brussels américain with a special geuze blend and a classic Brussels-Irish dry stout.

Cuisine and CultureEoghan Walsh26 April 2019food pairing, Cantillon, brasserie de la senne, Gueuze, stouterik, chouke, Lambic, pistolet, pistolet original, americain

“We always brew what we want” // A History of Brasserie de la Senne in 5 Beers

Each of Brasserie de la Senne’s beers has a story to tell. Here are five of those stories.

Breweries and BarsEoghan Walsh15 February 2019brasserie de la senne, zinnebir, taras boulba, stouterik, bruxellensis, saison du meyboom, molenbeek, laken

Brussels beer x Brussels food face-off #1 // Stoemp and pork sausage

Pairing two Brussels beers with a Brussels dish: Stoemp and pork sausage with Brasserie En Stoemelings La Tanteke and Brasserie de la Senne’s Jambe-de-Bois.

Cuisine and CultureEoghan Walsh12 October 2018food pairing, brasserie de la senne, Brasserie en stoemelings, stoemp, saison, tripel, pork sausage

Drinking in Ganshoren // A cabaret of the unreal

A man walks into a bar, followed behind by his daughter. They exchange a few words in muttered French. A couple ahead of them – man with his arm in a sling, woman fussing over the drinks menu – order their beers in Dutch and take a seat at a rickety wooden table. This is La Charnière, a rudimentary café housed in an 18th century Brussels farmhouse

Criticism and Comment, Cuisine and CultureEoghan Walsh24 November 2017Ganshoren, cabaret, jambe de bois, kroeg, brasserie de la senne, Heideken, Marc Didden, Camille Lemonnier, bars

Drinking in Koekelberg // The past, and a future?

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.

Breweries and Bars, Criticism and CommentEoghan Walsh9 August 2017Koekelberg, Jette, Ganshoren, Bar Eliza, Carlsberg, Parc Elisabeth, brasserie de la senne, Kids, Brussels, molenbeek

When is a Brussels beer not a Brussels beer?

It is a simple enough assumption: that a beer with the name of a place would be made at that place. In Brussels, as elsewhere, reality is a little muddier. A new beer launched in June that puts Molenbeek at the centre of its branding raises issues of provenance and what it means to be a Brussels beer.

Criticism and CommentEoghan Walsh26 July 2017brussels beer project, molenbeek, beer firms, provenance, molenbeek sous pression, brasserie de la senne, l'ermitage

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