beer styles

Eindhoven: Rob Bours

Post author:Bierdame Bo
Post published:July 21, 2020
Post category:Breweries / Brewing / Eindhoven
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I interviewed him about 100 Watt specifically, but it became such a long story and it was such a fun interview that I decided to make a separate post. This is the story of Rob

Dutch beer challenge 2020

Post author:Bierdame Bo
Post published:March 14, 2020
Post category:Beer styles / Breweries / Brewing / Championships
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One of the things that can be a part of being an international biersommelier is being asked to be a judge in a beer competition. I was asked to judge in the Dutch Beer Challenge of 2020 and of course I said yes!

American lagers

Post author:Bierdame Bo
Post published:February 11, 2020
Post category:Beer styles
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We managed to get our hands on some beers brewed in America! And that's something, because they aren't easy to get around here.

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.

Presenting Boltons Ur-Alt

Post author:Bierdame Bo
Post published:November 19, 2019
Post category:Beer styles / Breweries
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One part of being a biersommelier is knowing your classics. Therefore I want to present a beer to you once in a while. Today that's going to be Boltons Ur-Alt

Dutch Bock beers

Post author:Bierdame Bo
Post published:October 22, 2019
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It's autumn and I live in the Netherlands, which makes it impossible to ignore bock beers. Bock beers in the Netherlands are based on their German counterparts but is now a proper all Dutch beerstyle on its own.

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.

Training for the Championships, our dilemmas.

Post author:Bierdame Bo
Post published:July 23, 2019
Post category:beer education / Beer styles / Championships
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I want to participate in the Dutch championships in 2020. Not to win - not saying that wouldn't be nice - but mainly to participate in the first three rounds, test myself on my knowledge and tasting abilities ánd as a bonus...

Beer in a Box

Post author:Bierdame Bo
Post published:June 25, 2019
Post category:beer education / Beer styles
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Back to 2015. I just visited Hertog Jan, I tried a different beer every time I went to a pub, I used Untappd for over two years by then, and I hadn't begun StiBON yet. Somehow Beer in a Box came to my attention

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.