Pierre Celis was the man who put the small Belgian village of Hoegaarden on the world beer map when in the 1960s he revived a beer style made with wheat, spices, and fruit known as Witbier (white beer).
No matter where you look on the Internet, you’ll notice that people love lists and rankings, constantly being bombarded with “top 10 of this” or “the best 20 of that,” and the beer world is no different.
Saison Dupont is a Belgian top-fermented beer, bottle-conditioned, brewed since 1844 during the winter to quench the thirst of the “saisoniers” who would work in the fields during the summer.
Today it is very common to wonder what the real difference is between beer types and beer styles, whether industrial or craft, because while the original idea is shared, it is the latter that has clearly begun to impose itself in recent decades among brewers and the market in general.
Developed in 2013 through a collaboration between the German glassware company Spiegelau and two of the leading companies of the Craft Beer movement in the United States, with Sam Calagione from Dogfish and Ken Grossman from Sierra Nevada.
Pilsner Urquell is the first beer of its kind in history and the one from which, for better or worse, all others in its style were developed. Its quality is guaranteed by the use of the original recipe.
Gulden Draak is a Belgian strong ale-style beer originating from Ertvelde, Belgium, and brewed by Brouwerij Van Steenberge, with 10.5% ABV, 18 IBU, and 255 total calories.
With so many options available, it was inevitable that drinkers and drinking habits would naturally stratify into groups based on their behaviors, preferences, and alpha acid concentrations.
IPA beers (India Pale Ale) are a top-fermented beer style with over 200 years of history, increasingly widespread and appreciated around the world, and from which new variations emerge from time to time.
Köstritzer Schwarzbier is a bottom-fermented black lager. It has been produced since 1543 by the Köstritzer Schwarzbierbrauerei brewery, in the German state of Thuringia.
