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Excosa Brouwerij is popular. When the brewery makes a public appearance, passionate brewers Nico Landheer and Jan van Trooyen take central position amid the commotion. Their bar at a beer festival is abuzz, and it can be something of a challenge to negotiate the thronging …
Kaeru Beer would like to thank Frank Shepard from Haymarket Brewing — a long-established brewery and brewpub located in Chicago and Bridgman, MI — for the beers and chat a few weeks ago at Beermiscuous. Haymarket Brewing focuses primarily on European styles, particularly Belgian, but …
The practice of storing our favourite beers to consume at a later date, once we hope the flavour has matured, is nothing new. People have been ‘cellaring’ beers at home for about as long as beer has existed. Most beer lovers will have a cool …
Kaeru Beer have been members of the UK’s Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) for many, many years, and we recently voted in support of a series of measures designed to update CAMRA’s Articles of Association, a series of measures that will update the organisation …
There’s strength in numbers. It’s proven. One brewery working with another creates a stronger bond. Many breweries collaborate with another brewery on beers, brewing and events, for example. Some breweries are acquired, and others merge to create a larger parent brewery. For whatever reason …
How did Belching Beaver Brewery become the official brewer for everybody’s favourite post-hardcore band, Deftones? Kaeru Beer visited the brewery’s North Park Tasting Room to find out. Being avid fans of the Grammy Award winning metal titans, Belching Beaver Brewery heard rumours that the band …
Outside Benelux, Foeders are a rarity. Most people don’t even know what they are. They could be described as extra-large barrels used in the production of sour beers, for example. What is important, however, are the properties of a Foeder. Their size is important …
It is a rare occurrence to taste something that is wholly unique. It is even rarer to taste something that’s wholly unique and tastes delicious. Finding the latter to be astonishingly drinkable and something of an undiscovered marvel is almost unheard of. Today is that …
…if you’re in the USA, that is! April 7th, 1933. Whilst not exactly celebrating the ratification of the 21st Amendment, and thus ending Prohibition — that was December 5th, 1933 — this day marked a final nail in the coffin for the ban on …
What do the following have in common: 24 internationals wishing to learn about beer, a handful of beer experts, a couple of beer legends, 5-days in a classroom in Chicago, and plenty of beer and beer/food pairings? It is, of course, the Road to Cicerone …
The weather’s plan to disrupt this weekend’s Great Vegas Festival of Beer is thwarted. The weather deities are unfavourably watching proceedings in Sin City and have decided to unleash gale-force winds in order to disrupt this weekend’s Great Vegas Festival of Beer. However, the organisers …
It’s very easy to have a love/hate relationship with BE+ER, but for a very positive reason in both cases. It’s very easy to fall in love with the beers, which themselves are meticulously brewed with a deep love and passion; it’s also very easy to …
Self-confessed twitchers Ralph van Bemmel and Rik van den Berg swooped onto the Dutch beer scene a couple of years ago, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and with an exuberant enthusiasm and gusto that has allowed the goldcrest (Ralph) and the bearded reedling (Rik) to firmly established Bird …
One of the nicest beers we have never tasted is perhaps an Italian Grape Ale, officially recognised as a beer style by the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) a few years ago. And much like the early days of many other well-known beer styles …
Throughout its 131 years, London’s Olympia exhibition centre has seen many sporting, music and corporate events, and many legends (and dogs) have entertained the masses beneath the massive roof of glass and steel. Olympia has hosted the majority of CAMRA’s Great British Beer Festivals …