Beer culture

Brewery: Cantillon

Post Author:Bierdame Bo
Post published:December 3, 2019
Post Category:Beer history / Beer styles / Beer travels / Breweries / Brewing
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When I visited Brussels last year it wasn't specifically for the beery things. The main beery thing of the trip was a Gueuze brewery, namely Cantillon.

Dutch beer culture

Post Author:Bierdame Bo
Post published:September 10, 2019
Post Category:Beer customs / Beer travels / 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…

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
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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.

Kelheim, Schneider’s place?

Post Author:Bierdame Bo
Post published:May 14, 2019
Post Category:Beer travels / Side story
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Kelheim, Stadt im Fluss, a gorgeous city with a very small but beautiful Altstadt. We went there for the Schneider Weisse starkbierfest, but I will happily come back again for the city itself

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…

München and beer

Post Author:Bierdame Bo
Post published:April 2, 2019
Post Category:Beer travels
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As mentioned, before the two days in Obertrum I begun my trip a week earlier in München, beer capital of the world for sure! Famous for Oktoberfest, but a city that offers so much more.