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We just send out our newsletter of May to all subscribers! This is how it starts 🙂

Hello everyone!

Last weekend was perfect for the Tour de Geuze, so beautiful and sunny! On Saturday I joined a bus full of Beer Idiots to tour around the Zenne Valley, and visited a lot of geuze makers. It was such a pleasure to look around and discover these places and their wonderful beers. I managed to visit seven different geuze makers over the weekend and will be posting the photos in the next days on my socials. It was magnificent to see so many rows of beautiful oak barrels in all sizes and foeders of thousands of litres! Belgium can be proud of the pure craft, beauty and flavour of its Geuze-makers and of the country’s long beer history and diversity in beer making. 

Did you know that this year marks the ten year anniversary of the UNESCO Intangible Heritage certification for the Belgian Beer Culture? To honour and celebrate this occasion I have made a special themed beer tasting… I will host this Beer History Workshop on a monthly basis, starting at the end of this month.

Later this week I will fly to my beloved Cape Town. I am very honoured and excited that I will be judging in the African Beer Cup and honestly, I can’t wait to see Table Mountain again.  🙂 

Cheers, Carien

Hello everyone!

This April newsletter is quite late, as I just returned from a lovely two-week Easter holiday without my laptop. It was great to disconnect and just be for a while, but now I’m definitely ready to go again.

March was a great month, thanks to the holiday it already seems ages ago, but only a few weeks ago I went to Lyon for the Concours International de Lyon. I got some very interesting categories to judge, like smoked beers and specialty beers, and made some unexpected discoveries. I also visited the first Ostara Beer Festival in Brussels. It really was a big hit, such a nice line-up of local beers and breweries and what a great crowd of craft beer lovers. I definitely hope it will be organised again next year.

May is already around the corner which means the bi-annual Tour de Geuze will take place very soon. I can absolutely recommend a visit to any of the participating breweries, so if you find yourself with a few empty hours in the weekend of 9/10 May, visit at least one of them. There is no entry fee and good vibes are guaranteed. That’s all for now. Back to work, I hope to announce some exciting new tastings in next months’ newsletter. 

Enjoy the sunshine!

Cheers, Carien