The “Battle of Gravensteen” today is primarily known as a song based on the texts of the poem by Eugeen De Ridder, to whom Armand Preud’homme later composed the music. To understand the significance of this work, it is useful…
Bocks are strong, luscious lagers with substyles beyond the traditional one, the stronger Doppelbock, the spring Helles / Maibock or the fortified Eisbock.
The beer Pliny the Elder takes its name in honor of the Roman traveler, naturalist, historian, and writer Gaius Minor Plinius Caecilius Secundus, who is credited with having given the first botanical name for hops.
In just a few moments, a tsunami of thousands of liters of beer devastated the Saint Giles neighborhood in London, causing a genuine tragedy: what history remembers as the London Beer Flood of 1814.
Valdivia’s brewing tradition began at the Anwandter Brewery, founded in 1851 by Karl August Wilhelm Paschen Anwandter Fick, a German settler who came in 1850.
The discovery of a 220-year-old beer bottle recovered from the Sydney Cove, sunk in Australian waters near Tasmania, has inspired the creativity of a team of researchers.
When we drink Trappist beers, Belgium comes to mind first, yet these beers originated in France, a country not exactly known for its brewing tradition.