White Beer Travels. What's in a name? All is revealed below Schneider Weisse, a well-travelled, classic Wheat/White Beer, brewed in Bavaria by Schneider. Click on the image to go to their website White Beer Travels can be contacted in a number of ways, as is detailed below
Belgian Beer, German Beer, British Real Ale, North American Craft Beer and Speciality Beer from around the world, are all covered in this White Beer Travels website This White Beer Travels website has been in operation since March, 2002. It promotes Speciality/Craft Beer from around the world: Belgian Beer, German Beer, Craft Beer from the USA and Canada, Real Ale from the UK, etc
 
Click here to go to the "White Beer Travels" Home Page Click here for Speciality Beer and Brewery News. Old news can be found by clicking on "Archives" Click to find details of Beer Hunts that you can join Click here to get information on "Past Beer Hunts" organised by "White Beer Travels" Click here for information on what to expect on a typical Beer Hunt organised by White Beer Travels Current "Pub of the Month". See the "Archives" page for links to the other ones Click here for John White's Beer CV (Curriculum Vitae, Résumé) Click here for past Pubs of the Month, News, etc Click here for downloadable guides to places, breweries and bars Click here for "Links" to other websites. There are many on the other pages of the site, as well! You are on this, the Contacts page of the White Beer Travels website nformation on aspects of how the site was built, including acknowledgement of any help received Click here for details of the French to English Translation Service offered by White Beer Travels, & for the contact details of organisations that can provide the reverse
Belgian Beer and other great Speciality/Craft Beers, these including Real Ale from the UK and Craft Beers from the USA and Canada, are promoted on this, the White Beer Travels website. It is a big site, so to get an outline idea of the contents, click here to go to the site's Contents page
  Würzburg, in Germany, is world-renowned for its "Franken" wines. However, White (Wheat) Beers have certainly travelled to the city. The three different ones shown here are excellent examples. All are brewed in the city's Würzburger Hofbräu Brewery. Click on the glasses to go to the brewery's website, from which the image was pasted
Your cursor is on a photo of fellow Beer Hunt organisers at the Antwerp [Belgium] 24 Hour Beer Festival. This don't-miss festival was held each year until 2002. Its equivalent is run by OBP's successor, Zythos. For further details, click here to go to the Zythos website

To the left is a November, 2002 photo, by Joyce White. It features the UK's principal Beer Hunt organisers, i.e. from left to right, they are: John White (1945-), of White Beer Travels; Podge, of Podge's Belgian Beer Tours (see below); and Simon van Tromp, of Beer Traveller Tours (see below).

White Beer Travels, Beer Traveller Tours, and Podge, all ran trips featuring what was possibly the world's best Beer Festival, the Antwerp 24-Hour Beer Festival (which is now replaced by one in Sint-Niklaas, which is readily reached from Antwerp by train, click here for more details. This photo was taken at the 24-Hour. Note the Achouffe stand in the background, a brewery that produces magnificent beers in the Belgian Ardennes, www.achouffe.be.

For details of White Beer Travels Beer Hunts featuring the Zythos Bier Festival, the replacement for the Antwerp 24-Hour Beer Festival, click here. The 24-Hour festival was run by OBP, Belgium's premier beer consumers' organisation, which unfortunately had to be wound up, in December, 2002. Click here for a statement from Peter Crombecq, OBP's founder and liquidator, giving more details. The Zythos Beer Festival (www.zbf.be, White Beer Travels Web page) is run by OBP's successor, Zythos (www.zythos.be).

Beer Hunt Organisers' Contact Details

This page provides contact details for three UK-based organisation that organise Beer Hunts - White Beer Travels, Simon van  Tromp's Beer Traveller Tours, and Chris (Podge) Pollard's Belgian Beer Tours - and one based in the USA, that runs Beer Trips in Belgium, Johnny Fincioen's Global Beer Network (www.globalbeer.com).

How to Contact White Beer Travels

   John White's "White Beer Travels" can be contacted by:

Your cursor is on an e-mail animated GIF. Click on it or on the e-mail address to the right to send an e-mail to White Beer Travels

 

Your cursor is on an image of John White's e-mail address. Click on it to send an e-mail to John
 
Your cursor is on a telephone animated GIF. Of course, John White's telephone number from the UK is 01472 884768

telephone at +44 1472 884768
Your cursor is on a mobile phone (cell phone) animated GIF. And, of course, John White's mobile number from the UK is 07771 511534
 mobile (cell phone) at +44 7771 511534
Your cursor is on a fax animated GIF. John White's fax number from the UK is 01212 756088

fax at +44 1212 756088

This fax number is supplied by eFax (j2 Global Communications), (www.efax.com), see the Build page.

Your cursor is on a snail animated GIF. Snail mail is perfectly acceptable at White Beer Travels!

 

or by writing to -

 

John White

 

White Beer Travels
2 Grasby Crescent
Grimsby
N E Lincolnshire
England
DN37 9HE             Click here for a map from
                             maps.google.co.uk

GPS: 53o33'58" N, 0o07'53" W
          53.566105o N, 0.131393o W

OS National Grid Reference: TA 239 093 (523852m E, 409342m N)


Simon van Tromp, of Beer Traveller Tours & Publications, in Lowestoft, England, can be contacted by:

Your cursor is on an e-mail animated GIF. Click on it or on the e-mail address to the right to send an e-mail to Simon van Tromp

 

Your cursor is on an image of Simon van Tromp's e-mail address. Click on it or use it to send an e-mail to Simon
 
Your cursor is on a phone animated GIF. From the UK, Simon van Tromp's number is 01502 589403

telephone at +44 1502 589403
Your cursor is on a letter box animated GIF. Simon van Tromp says: "Just keep those letters coming"

or by writing to -

Simon van Tromp

 

Beer Traveller Tours & Publications Ltd
Lantern House
6 Wilson Road
Lowestoft
Suffolk
England
NR33 0JA
Your cursor is on an image of two of Simon van Tromp beer guides. John White, of White Beer Travels, has contributed to both of these invaluable books

The Beer Traveller Tours & Publication website, www.beertraveller.com, and Simon's blog site, provide full details of Beer Traveller Beer Hunts and also how to get hold of Simon's excellent "Beer Traveller" books, such as those on West Flanders and "South West Netherlands and Beyond", shown on the left. Do not confuse Simon's site with a similarly named American one: www.beertravelers.com. The latter provides good coverage of outlets for Speciality Beer, in the USA, where it is called Craft Beer or Specialty Beer. Click here for details of a White Beer Travels trip to Denver, Colorado, which gives information on a companion book to this latter website.

Podge's Belgian Beer Tours are based in Chelmsford, England

Chris (Podge) Pollard, who describes himself as a "Beer Investigator", has been running trips to Belgium since 1994. Podge is the Chairman of the Chelmsford and Mid-Essex branch of CAMRA, www.chelmsfordcamra.org.uk. Podge and Tim Webb (Good Beer Guide Belgium) are the co-authors of a May, 2004 book entitled LambicLand LambikLand, which covers Lambic Bars, Breweries and Blenders, including how to get to them. More details of this don't-enter-the Pajottenland-without book are to be found on Tim's "books about beer" website, www.booksaboutbeer.com, and in a White Beer Travels Web page featuring it. Also featured on this White Beer Travels Web page is Podge and Siobhan McGinn's Around Bruges in 80 Beers. These books can be purchased from Tim's site along with his Good Beer Guide Belgium, which can also be purchased from CAMRA (www.camra.org.uk), from www.amazon.co.uk, or from  www.amazon.com.

Your cursor is on a photo taken at the Brouwerij Bavik, Rijksweg 33, Bavikhove, in Belgium (tel 056 71 90 91). Click on the photo to go to the Bavik website

To the left, is Podge, in one of his trademark patterned, coloured shirts, for another, see above. It shows him discussing the itinerary for his June, 2002 Beer Tour with Yves Benoit, who is responsible for quality in the Bavik-De Brabandere Brewery (www.bavik.be), in Bavikhove, Belgium. The photo was taken by John White on the tour, in June, 2002. Full details on what was a truly excellent tour can be found on the Recce Trips page. The section of this page covering the trip includes a photo of Yves drawing off a sample of one of the blend components of the Brewery's Petrus Oud Bruin, which Podge's group were very privileged to taste - a wonderful and rare drinking experience. The White Beer Travels trip to Bavik, a year later is covered in the Past Beer Hunts page.

Podge can be contacted by:

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Your cursor is on an image of Podge's e-mail address. Click on it or use it to send an e-mail to Podge
 
Your cursor is on a phone animated GIF. From the UK, Podge's Belgian Beer Tours' number is 01245 354677
 telephone at +44 1245 354677

Global Beer Network is based in Santa Barbara, California, USA

Global Beer Network is an on-line Belgian Beer shop, run by Johnny Fincioen, who is a Belgian, who lives and works in California. From the Global Beer Network website, as well as being able to order from an excellent selection of Belgian Beers, one can also learn much about the beer and about Belgium. Global Beer Network also organise excellent tailor-made and scheduled Belgian Beer Tours. These are conducted by Bruges resident and Belgian Beer aficionado, Regnier De Muynck, "Le Brut de Bruges, the founder of the well-known De Biertempel beer shop, in Brussels, and co-creator of a beer called Babbelaar. Further details of Global Beer Network's September, 2006 tour, can be reached by clicking here.

Johnny Fincioen, of Global Beer Network, can be contacted by:

Your cursor is on an e-mail animated GIF. Click on it or on the e-mail address to the right to send an e-mail to Global Beer Network

 

Your cursor is on an image of Global Beer Network's e-mail address. Click on it or use it to send an e-mail to this California-based company that organises Beer Tours in Belgium
 
Your cursor is on a phone animated GIF. From the USA, Global Beer Network can be contacted by calling 800 442 3379
 telephone at +1 800 442 3379
Your cursor is on a fax animated GIF. Global Beer Network's fax number from the USA is 805 683 1470

fax at +1 805 683 1470
Your cursor is on a letter box animated GIF. Johnny Fincioen of Global Beer Network welcomes your letters

or by writing to -

Johnny Fincioen

 

Global Beer Network
PO Box 2069
Santa Barbara CA 93120
USA

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