beer countries

Dortmund

Post author:Bierdame Bo
Post published:January 28, 2020
Post category:beer education / Beer styles / Beer travels / Breweries
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As I visited Burton last year with the new students, I visited Dortmund in 2018 with my own study group. Our assignment was to brew a Dortmunder Export, but none of us ever drank a Dortmunder Export before.

Dutch beer culture

Post author:Bierdame Bo
Post published:September 10, 2019
Post category:Beer customs / Beer travels / Eindhoven / Glassware
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I'm writing about so many other cultures, I should write something about Dutch beer culture as well, and don't make the mistake that it doesn't exist, it does :) It's…

StiBON: Level 2

Post author:Bierdame Bo
Post published:September 3, 2019
Post category:beer education / Beer treatment
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As soon as I heard that I passed the level 1 exams I signed up for level 2. Level 2 consists of 12 (actually 13) detailed lessons about everything you can imagine beer related, but like every course in the end you have just scratched the surface.

Burton-on-Trent and beer

Post author:Bierdame Bo
Post published:August 6, 2019
Post category:Beer history / Beer styles / Beer travels / Breweries
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Burton-on-Trent is historically speaking a very important beer city and it is mainly known for this extensive brewing history, with its height around the 18th and 19th centuries.

Book: Brew Britannia

Post author:Bierdame Bo
Post published:June 4, 2019
Post category:Beer books / Beer customs / Beer history
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I like reading a lot! So much so, that we have a library in our house (hey, we had a spare room). So of course I also love reading books about beer.

Schneider Weisse fanclubtreffen

Post author:Bierdame Bo
Post published:May 28, 2019
Post category:Beer customs / Beer travels / Breweries / Eindhoven
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The interesting part about Schneider is that they hold their fans in special regard. They even have fanclubs all over the world which they support and every year there's a fanclubtreffen. This year the treffen was in Eindhoven.

Bamberg and beer

Post author:Bierdame Bo
Post published:April 30, 2019
Post category:Beer travels / Breweries
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Bamberg, the city of rauchbier. But more importantly, the city with probably the biggest specialty malts house over the world. I will come back to malt houses later.

Salzburg and beer

Post author:Bierdame Bo
Post published:April 13, 2019
Post category:Beer history / Beer travels / Breweries
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I haven't got a lot of knowledge about the Austrian beer history yet and I hope to get back to this topic better educated. But for now I'll just share with you our beery adventures in Salzburg.

German beer customs and quirkiness

Post author:Bierdame Bo
Post published:April 6, 2019
Post category:Beer customs / Beer history / Beer travels
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It's fascinating to see that Germany has a very extensive beer culture with a whole set of customs, behaviours and rituals. For tourists maybe not always that okay, as waiters/waitresses…