Many, many
thanks to all those who have provided a reciprocal link to my site. If you have a link to the White
Beer Travels site, but it is not listed here, please do not hesitate to get in
touch, and your site will be added to the list as fast as is possible.
The
reciprocal site's Home page is given, followed by information on where the link to the White Beer
Travels site is to be found on the site or, where possible, a hyperlink direct
to the page of the site containing the link to the White Beer Travels site. Pages
with such a link will, in most cases, be very useful, i.e. are likely to have
a number of pertinent links to other sites.
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Tim
Webb's
"books about beer"
Tim produces the don't-enter-Belgium-without
Good Beer Guide Belgium. John White, of White Beer Travels,
contributes to this guide. Click here for more information
on the guide. Tim's guide - the fifth edition came out in May, 2005 - can be purchased
from his site, and from CAMRA, from www.amazon.co.uk, or from www.amazon.com. Tim, in collaboration with my fellow Beer Hunt organiser, Chris (Podge) Pollard, produced a May, 2004 book entitled LambicLand LambikLand, which covers Lambic Bars, Breweries and Blenders, including how to get to them. Clearly, one should not venture into the Payottenland, in the Belgian Province of Flemish Brabant (Vlaams-Brabant), without it. LambicLand LambikLand was the first book published by Tim's Cogan & Mater company; Tim's site was set up for this venture. LambicLand LambikLand can be purchased from the site. Click here for a White Beer Travels Web page covering LambicLand LambikLand and Around Bruges in 80 Beers, the latter being co-authored by Podge and his partner, Siobhan McGinn. Tim is featured in the photo at the top of this page.
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The British Guild of Beer Writers
The British Guild of Beer Writers was formed in 1988 with the aim of promoting and increasing the profile of beer and brewing. The Guild's website provides a directory of all its individual members, which can be reached by using the second link to the right; click here for a list of the Guild's corporate members.
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This page is a list of the Guild's committee members
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beer-pages
with Roger Protz
and Tom Cannavan. It's all about beer
(Roger Protz Beer Magazine)
Roger Protz (1939-) is the editor of CAMRA's Good Beer Guide, the author of numerous books on beer, and is a regular contributor to a good number of newspapers and trade journals; in the photo above, which was taken by John White, in November, 2004, Roger is with Roger Ryman, Head Brewer of the St. Austell Brewery, in Cornwall.
Roger is the recipient of a whole host of prestigious awards, including: Glenfiddich Drink Writer of the Year; and a Life Time Achievement Award from the British Guild of Beer Writers, see above, of which he is a former Chairman. He is the Contributing Editor of beer-pages, an essential website that is full of really useful, regularly updated info.
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1st page with link to White Beer Travels
2nd page with link to White Beer Travels
The second link is in Roger's article on the Cantillon Brewery, in Brussels, see the next entry.
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Cantillon Brewery,
Brussels, Belgium
This is quite simply, one of the real shining lights of the Belgian Beer World, nay, the Beer World. Its superb Lambic-based brews can be sampled at the brewery and in many outlets in Brussels, Belgium and elsewhere. Click here for the White Beer Travels Web page covering this wonderful place that is run by wonderful people. |
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The page with the link to White Beer Travels is available in Français, Nederlands or English.
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Belgium Welcome!
This is the official website of the Belgian Tourist Office in The Americas. It is a truly essential resource for anyone planning a trip to Belgium. Naturally, Belgian Beer is not overlooked, in fact it is treated superbly. The page with the link to the White Beer Travels website, which is entitled "Belgium for Beer Lovers", has an extensive list of links to top quality websites covering Belgian Beer.
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Page with link to White Beer Travels
The link is fairly near the bottom of this "Belgium for Beer Lovers" page, in the "Beer Tours" section. It can also be reached from the Home page of the "Belgium Welcome!" site by clicking on "Site Map" and then "Belgium for Beer Lovers". Other pages that catch the eye on the Site Map page include: "Belgium for Food Lovers"; etc; etc.
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Realbeer.com
The Real Beer Pages This is one of the world's most famous and important beer information resources. If you put just "beer" in the famous search engine Google, www.google.com, Realbeer.com is number one! Although not obvious from its Home page, this site is based in Canada.
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Page with link to White Beer Travels
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Westvleteren, Belgium
This is the bar/restaurant
opposite the St. Sixtus Trappist Monastery (www.sintsixtus.be),
within which is brewed some of the world's finest beers, including the classic
Westvleteren 12o (ABT). Naturally, the beers are available
in In de Vrede's bar and shop, as well as by the crate at the Monastery.
Within the trendy In de Vrede there is an area, in a separate room,
called the Claustrum, which has an exhibition covering the Monastery, including
a video featuring the brewery. Further information on In de Vrede and
the Monastery is given on the following page of the White Beer Travels site, www.whitebeertravels.com/sixtus.
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Kroegske,
Emelgem, Belgium This is a world-class pub/restaurant that quite simply must be visited. The superb selection of Belgian and other Speciality Beers is presented in a magnificent beer menu book. The food is great and matched with recommended beers. Many thanks to Danny Verbeke and his wife, Nadine Demeestere, for coming up with this stupendous establishment. This White Beer Travels "Pub of the Month" is fully covered on the following page of the White Beer Travels site, www.whitebeertravels.com/kroegske.
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Page with links to White Beer Travels
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Page with links to White Beer Travels
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European Beer Guide
Ron (Kilderkin) Pattinson's essential website has excellent information on famous Specialty Beer places, like Belgium, but also for little-covered places such as Stockholm and Berlin, as well as Amsterdam, where Ron, who hails from Newark, England, is based. Ron's "Dutch Pub Guide" is to be found at www.europeanbeerguide.net/hollpubs.htm. For a photo of Ron on a White Beer Travels Web page, click here.
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with link to White Beer Travels
(Ron's Excellent Links Page)
Page with link to White Beer Travels
(Nuremberg Pubs)
Page with link to White Beer Travels
(Bamberg Pubs)
Page with link to White Beer Travels
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Bruxellensis Beer Festival
The Bruxellensis Festival, the Brussels Festival of Characterful Beers (Le Festival des Bières de Caractère, Karakter Bier Festival) is an annual beer festival that was inaugurated in 2005, featuring beers full of character. It is organised by Yvan De Baets and Bernard Leboucq. There is a White Beer Travels Web page featuring this very special festival, which can be reached by clicking here.
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1st page with link to White Beer Travels
This is the page reached when clicking for the English pages from the Bruxellensis website's Home page. It states that the English pages were translated from the French pages by John White, of White Beer Travels. Full details of the White Beer Travels French to English Translation Service can be found by clicking here, for the information in French, and here, for it in English.
2nd page with link to White Beer Travels
This is the page reached when clicking for the French pages from the Bruxellensis website's Home page. In French, it states that John White provided the Bruxellensis Festival website's English pages.
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Beer-Inn Print
"Beer-Inn Print" is, an excellent, UK-based source of beer books magazines, postcards and plaques, including hard-to-find ones. It is run by Paul Travis. Paul has a marvellous beer book stall at a number of UK Beer Festivals.
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TOPGAME & BièreMag These two Belgian websites collaborate with each other. TOPGAME is a site
covering comic book (Bande Dessinée, BD) artists, including Louis-Michel Carpentier, who also designs beer mats/coasters and beer bottlle labels, including the famous naked pig, Cochonne, labels for La Brasserie à Vapeur, The Steam Brewery, (www.vapeur.com, in Pipaix, in Hainaut Province, in Belgium. Click here to see a reproduction of one of the labels.
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Global Beer Network
Johnny Fincioen's Global Beer Network is an on-line Belgian Beer shop, based in Santa Barbara, California, USA; Johnny is Belgian. From their 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, and also about the excellent tailor-made and scheduled Belgian Beer Tours that they organise. Further details of their September, 2006 tour can be reached by clicking here.
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Van Eecke Brewery,
Watou, Belgium
The Brouwerij Van Eecke, in Watou, in the Belgian Province of West Flanders produce the very well regarded Het Kapittel range of Abbey Beers, Watou's Wit (a Wheat Beer) and Poperings Hommelbier (Popering Hop Beer) (Watou is close to Poperinge, which is Belgium's Hop Capital). Click here for the White Beer Travels Web page covering Watou.
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Lew Bryson
On the Home page of his excellent site, Lew Bryson describes himself as "the award-winning, beer-drinking, whiskey-sipping, brewery-visiting, cask-tapping, thirst-creating drinks writer!". The site has details of his top-class New York Breweries book, the excerpt on the site having some useful links. Lew is based in Philadelphia, so Pennsylvania is superbly covered, in addition to New York (City and State).
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In de Verzekering Tegen de Grote Dorst
This
superb pub, "Insurance Against The Big Thirst", in Lennik/Eizeringen,
Belgium, promotes the beers for which the area in which it is to be found is world
famous, i.e. the Pajottenland, an area to the South and South West of Brussels.
This is renowned in the Speciality Beer world for the production of an ancient
beer style: Lambic and its derivatives - Gueuze/Geuze and Fruit Beers. Lambic
is a spontaneously fermented beer.
Click here
for a White Beer Travels Web page covering this very special bar. Like the place's
own site, it covers an event of major importance - it could play a significant
role in saving Lambic for the nation and the world - that took place within and
just outside its four walls, in March, 2004. This was spawned from a fire
in the place on, Xmas Day, 2003. This event is now followed up by an equivalent event every two years, see www.nachtvandegrotedorst.be.
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De Zolder, Bruges, Belgium
This is a top class Belgian Beer bar, run by Luk Vandamme, ex of the world class 't Brugs Beertje (www.brugsbeertje.be, White Beer Travels Web page).
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't Arendsnest, Amsterdam
Amsterdam in The Netherlands has a good number of superb Specialty Beer bars. Most have both Belgian and Dutch Beers. Peter van der Arend's truly superlative 't Arendsnest, only stocks Dutch Beers, all the country's Speciality Beer brewers being represented in the choice of over 150 different beers. Click here for the White Beer Travels web page that covers this don't-miss bar.
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Bamberg - die wahre Hauptstadt des Bieres
In English, the title of this magnificent German-language, September, 2004 book is "Bamberg - Truly the Beer Capital", this being true. It is by Dr Christian Fiedler, who published it himself (216 pages (220x235mm), ISBN 3-00-013723-8). It features the seventy-three breweries, past and present, that have operated in the city since 1817. It is lavishly illustrated with photos and document reproductions for all the breweries featured, accompanied by superb maps pinpointing them;
I can't wait to return to Bamberg with the book and match the photos of the lost breweries to their present uses. Christian assembled all the illustrations himself, and laid them out amongst his text, i.e. he has done far more the job of a mere author: the book is a labour of love that shines through from every page. Details of how to get a copy of this essential book are to be found on the book's website. A more detailed White Beer Travels review of the book can be seen by clicking here. The city currently has ten official breweries, these being covered in the White Beer Travels guide to Bamberg, which can be reached by clicking here. Note that a second edition of the book was published in April, 2005. It has twelve extra pages; the new edition additionally covers the Bamberg suburbs of Gaustadt und Bug.
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There is a link both to the White Beer Travels Web page review this book, and to the page featuring Bamberg's most famous tavern, the Schlenkerla. |
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Bierstadt Bamberg
(Beer Town Bamberg)
The sub-title of this website is
"Die wahre Hauptstadt des Bieres" (The True Beer Capital), which is indeed true, see the previous entry. The city's brewing establishments are featured in this German-language site. There is also an associated, locally available booklet, Bambergs Brauereien - Biervielfalt Erleben & Geniessen.
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The London Guide to
Belgian Beer Peter Garrod's excellent site provides
a comprehensive list of outlets where Belgian Beer is available. Despite the title,
places outside London are covered and there are a number of related pages, including
links. | www.belgianbeerguide.co.uk
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The Beers of France
and Wallonia
This essential site is the on-line
version of The Beers of Wallonia and The Beers of France
by John Woods and Keith Rigley. The seventy-eight page White Beer Travels Guide
to Paris, which is available on the Downloads page,
appears in a very abridged form in the book on France, which is the best book
available on French beer in any language.
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Biercuisine
This famous Dutch-language site covers Beer Cuisine, of course. It is a marvellous platform for the renowned Dutch chef, Han Hidalgo. Naturally, there are numerous recipes using named beers. The site also has a lot of useful information and news on the Dutch and Belgian Beer scene, and has a mass of links to Dutch and Belgian breweries as well as bars/restaurants that feature beer cuisine; there is a direct link to this Links page to the right.
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Zythos Beer Festival (ZBF)
Zythos (www.zythos.be) is Belgium's premier beer consumers' organisation; it is the successor to OBP, which folded in
December, 2002. The Zythos Beer Festival replaces OBP's Antwerp 24 Hour Festival, which was for me, one of the world's best beer festivals, if it is beer quality that matters. The first Zythos Festival, which took place in March, 2004, was a very worthy successor. For the White Beer Travels Web page covering Zythos and the ZBF, click here. See the next entry for information on how to join Zythos. The next ZBF takes place on Saturday, the 1st, and Sunday, the 2nd of March, 2008.
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De Oostendse
Bierjutters (DOB, The Ostend Beercombers)
DOB was one of OBP's regional organisations,
the one representing Ostend and the Belgian coast. It now provides the same role in Zythos, see the previous link. One can only join Zythos via one
of its regional organisations. One gets information, both from Zythos and from
the organisation that you have chosen, for example, excellent magazines such as
Zythos's De Zytholoog and DOB's Den Dobber. Click here
if you would like to join DOB and Zythos. Note that Zythos means beer in Greek;
it is derived from the Egyptian word, Zythum.
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For
the page with the link to "White Beer Travels", click on "Kenjedobje"
on any of the DOB website's pages.
"Ken
je Dobjes" literally means "Know your Little DOBs", i.e. "Little
things you should know about beer". Thanks to DOB's President, Rik Vernack,
and the DOB Webmaster, Francis De Smet, for this explanation. Rik and Francis
also provided particularly useful comment and input to the seventy page White
Beer Travels Guide To Ostend and the Belgian Coast that is available from the
Downloads page of the White Beer Travels website.
There
is also an intermittent link on every page of the DOB site to White Beer Travels;
the rotating banner at the top features all the Honorary Members of DOB, the ones
that feature on the back page of each issue of Den Dobber. |
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Heerlijk Objectief
Proeven (HOP, Delightful Objective Tasting)
HOP is
another of the former OBP organisations that make up Zythos, see the previous link. Like DOB, they are based in West Flanders, but in the
town of Wevelgem, rather than Ostend. The HOP website, which is produced by William
Roelens, is really excellent. It is packed with useful links and information,
including the names of all Belgian Beers produced since 1999. William has a truly excellent blog covering Belgian Beer: blog.seniorennet.be/bierblog.
HOP
organises the annual Karakterbier Weekend, which, is typically on the first Saturday and Sunday of June. For more details, see the HOP website.
Note that HOP members, Jan Vandenberghe and his wife, Veerle Bal (HOP's Chairman (Voorzitster) and a member of the Zythos website building team), have a website devoted to their home brewery, the Brouwerij Lupiline, www.lupiline.be. It is possible that this will become a commercial brewery.
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O.B.E.R.
(Objectieve Bierproevers Essense Regio - Essen Area Objective Beer Tasters)
and its Kerstbierfestival (Christmas Beer Festival)
This
is a branch of Zythos, see above, based in Essen, in Belgium's
Antwerp Province, right on the Dutch border. The excellent O.B.E.R. website,
which is in Dutch, French and English, covers more than just O.B.E.R.'s activities,
i.e. there is much information on Belgian Beer and a very good set of "Bierlinks".
It also has information on the superb two-day Christmas Beer Festival (Kerstbierfestival),
which they run each year. In 2007, this will be held on Saturday, the 15th
and Sunday, the 16th of December. Further information on Essen and the O.B.E.R. Christmas Beer Festival are to be found on a
White Beer Travels Web page, which can be reached by clicking here.
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www.kerstbierfestival.be
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Beeralewhatever.com
This is
the website of British beerwriter and journalist Adrian Tierney-Jones.
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The Beer Brothers, Mechelen
This is a branch of Zythos, see above, based in Mechelen, the second city in the Belgian Province of Antwerp; Mechelen is mid way between Antwerp and Brussels. The Beer Brothers organise a "Mechelen Beer Day" (Mechelse bierdag) each year, which is held close to the city's renowned Het Anker Brewery. In 2007, it is on Sunday, the 1st of July, from 10am to 10pm. Click here for the White Beer Travels Web page covering Mechelen.
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Les Amis de la Bière
Les
Amis de la Bière [du Nord-Pas-de-Calais] is France's premier beer consumers'
organisation. La Ghilde des Eswards Cervoisiers is its inner circle. Click
here to go to John White's Beer CV, which is headed by a
photo of him being inducted into this "Beer Tasters Guild". Note that
the French beer organisation that is a member of the EBCU, the European Beer Consumers'
Union (www.ebcu.org), is ATPUB (AssociaTion Pour l'Union des Biérophiles), www.atpub.org.
Note that ATPUB and "Les Amis ..." are two of sixteen members of
FNABra (Fédération Nationale des Associations BRAssicoles).
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De Torre, De Haan,
Belgium
De Torre, in De Haan, on the Belgian coast,
is one of Belgium's very best Specialty Beer bars. Proprietor Daniel Dumon can
be talked about in the same breath as: Joost De Four of De Heeren van Liedekercke,
in Denderleeuw; Danny Verbeke of Kroegske, in Emelgem;
Daisy Claeys
of 't Brugs Beertje, in Bruges; and Tom Allewaert
of the Hotel/Restarant Erasmus, in Bruges.
De Torre is fully covered in the White Beer Travels Guide to "Ostend
and the Belgian Coast", which one can get from the Downloads page by clicking
here.
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De Bierkamer,
Kluizen (Ertvelde), Belgium
This "Bierkaffee and Brocante" (Beer Bar & Breweriana "Shop") was opened in August, 2004 by Gert Brouns. Click here for the White Beer Travels Web page covering this world-class place. Marc Staelens took over the running of the place in January, 2007.
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Brewerkz, Singapore
This is a top-class Brew Pub, with a Canadian Brewer, Scott Robertson. It features heavily in the White Beer Travels Singapore Web page. |
www.brewerkz.com
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De Snoek Mout- en Brouwhuis/'t Brouwershof,
Alveringem, Belgium
This is a marvellous maltings/brewery museum, with a superb bar, this having beers from the great De Dolle Brouwers (www.dedollebrouwers.be), who are connected with the place.
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Bier Keurmeesters Gilde
(Dutch Beer Judge Guild) The Bier Keurmeesters Gilde (BKG) is an organisation for amateur/home brewers, based in The Netherlands. Their excellent, Dutch-language site has tons of information that will be of interest to all lovers of Specialty Beer, not just home brewers. The site has a large number of links to breweries in The Netherlands, Belgium, the UK, France, the USA and elsewhere. The Chairman/Webmaster of the Guild is Peter van den Hurk.
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| De Deltabrouwers The
Deltabrouwers are a Home Brew organisation based in the Dutch province
of Zeeland. Their website has some very useful links and provides details of
their marvellous, annual Deltabier Festival, held on a Sunday, in mid-March. The venue is the Ambachtscentrum, which
is within De Hollandse Hoeve, a recreation park, in Goes. Further information
on the Deltabrouwers can be found on the Archives,
Past Beer Hunts, Recce Trips,
and De Mug pages of the White Beer Travels site.
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For
the page with the link to the "White Beer Travels" website, click on
"Links" on the the Deltabrouwers' website's Home page. |
bierpromotie.be
(Uw biermagazine)
Geert Vandromme's excellent Dutch-language
"Beer Promotion (Your Beer Magazine)" site has hectolitres/barrels of information
on the beer scene in Belgium and The Netherlands:- news, beer festival dates,
brewery addresses, links, etc, etc. One can sign up on the site for a very useful e-mail newsletter, which provides information on upcoming events in the Belgian Beer world.
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Online Beer Guide to Bamberg and Franconia
This
is an excellent site from Fred Waltman. It covers the beers and breweries of Bamberg
and the surrounding Franconia (Franken) area, this being in Northern Bavaria,
in Germany. Click here for the White Beer Travels
Guide to the world-class Schlenkerla,
Bamberg's finest tavern. The seventy-seven page White Beer Travels Guide to Bamberg is available from the Downloads page.
Los Angeles, California, where Fred
is based, is superbly covered by another of his sites: www.labeer.com.
Fred has another great site, the Sticke Warriors' site (www.stickewarriors.com),
which is covered in a White Beer Travels page featuring Zum
Uerige, in Düsseldorf, Germany.
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with link to White Beer Travels (one)
Page
with link to White Beer Travels (two)
an excellent article on a former
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aus Franken Beer from Franconia
This is Bamberg
local, Frank Wetzel's excellent site covering the beers and breweries of Franconia.
It has some very useful links. Fred Waltman's site above also
covers this. The seventy-seven page White Beer Travels Guide to Bamberg, mentioned in Frank's site, has a photo taken in
Bamberg featuring Fred, Frank and John White. It is available from the Downloads page.
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The link is labelled "Englische Bierfreunde".
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Knut Albert's Beer Blog
Knut Albert Solem's is based in Oslo, the capital of Norway, but travels the world in search of the best Speciality Beer, which he reports on in this excellent, English-language beer blog site.
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The link to the White Beer Travels website is on its Home page |
The Beer Tourist This is another excellent, English-language beer blog site from someone based in Oslo: Tore.
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Dranken Geers
This is a truly excellent Beer Warehouse in Oostakker (Ledergemstraat 7, tel 09 251 05 83), which is near Ghent, in Belgium. It has over 500 Belgian Beers and a good selection from other countries, such as Schlenkerla Rauchbier (Smoke Beer), which is brewed by the Brauerei Heller, in Bamberg, in Germany, White Beer Travels Web page, the latter having a photo featuring crates of Schlenkerla in Dranken Geers). All the beers are very reasonable priced. Dranken Geers is easily reached, being just off the North bound leg of the Ghent ring road (R4) (GPS: 51.100420o N, 3.761073o E).
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The British Guide to
German Beer This is an excellent site, with lots
of links, including websites covering places where one can buy and drink German
beer in the UK. There is also a really comprehensive coverage of appropriate German
sites, such as breweries, and a large collection of general beer and related links. |
www.germanbeerguide.co.uk
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BeerTutor.com
This is Jason Sprague's website "for the average beer drinker". It is an expanding mine of information on beer; there is a beer database, forums, news, beer quotes, etc, etc. Jason is based in Portland, Oregon, USA.
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Brew Like A Monk
This is the title of a book by Stan
Hieronymus, which was published in 2005. It contains recipes for brewing Trappist-Style Beers and other Strong Belgian-Style Beers. The website, of course, features the book, but it also has a lot of excellent information on Trappist Beers and Abbey Beers.
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Alex
Hall's Quality Cask Ale Pages
As would be expected,
this excellent site contains information on Real Ale in the UK, particularly around
Brighton, where "Alex the Imbiber" lived before moving to New York,
in 1999. In Brighton, Alex was the Cellarman of "The Evening Star" pub.
The site also has some "U.S.A. Pages", www.cask-ale.co.uk/us.
These have a strong emphasis on New York. There is a link to Alex's own "New
York Good Beer Guide" and also to the on-line edition of Alex's marvellous
magazine, The Gotham Imbiber, that was launched in January, 2003,
www.gotham-imbiber.com. Unlike
many on-line magazines, this really does have the look on the screen of a "Real"
magazine!
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Brewpics.cambrinus.nl
The Place To Beer!
This
is an excellent site produced by John Brus, who lives in Delft, in The Netherlands.
It is full of photos of breweries around the world. The e-mail address for contributing
your own pictures is given on the site. Note that this site is associated with
Jan Ausems and Ton van Opstal's "Cambrinus.nl - Dutch Beer Portal - The Place To Beer!", which
is an outstanding, essential resource on Dutch beer, www.cambrinus.nl.
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Kuaska
Lorenzo
Dabove is Italy's most famous Beer Hunter. Lorenzo is known not only as "The
Prince of the Payottenland" (prins van het Pajottenland), such is his love of the place, but also as Kuaska,
hence the name of his website. Kuaska is a poetical character, which requires
the donning of a pair of very large ears! With these on, Kuaska usually plays a nose flute!
Lorenzo/Kuaska's
support and enthusiasm for beers from the Pajottenland and the rest of Belgium
is known to all followers of Speciality/Craft/Specialty Beer, but it is also recognised
at ministerial level in Belgium. At a March, 2004 event to support the beers
for which Brussels and the neighbouring Pajottenland is justly famous, but which
are under threat, one of the attendees was Herman De Croo, the Chairman of
the Belgian Federal Parliament and Minister of State. After the event, he wrote
to the organiser, about Kuaska, who made a speech at the event, as follows: " ... I have already seen many things in my life, but the fact that a very skilled
Italian beer connoisseur praises the beers of the Pajottenland in English to beer
lovers from London and Washington, is unique ... ". The
event was held in a superb pub in the Pajottenland, In De Verzekering
Tegen De Grote Dorst (White Beer Travels Web page).
I am privileged to count Kuaska as a good
friend, and not just a beer acquaintance, and not because of the praise heaped
on me to the right! Click here for a White Beer Travels Web page dedicated to Kuaska, and here, here,
here, and here,
for White Beer Travels Web pages that feature him. Kuaska is featured in the photo at the top of this page.
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Tutta Birra (All The Beers)
This is the
site for a Beer Shop, in Milan, Italy. However, it offers far more than just information
on its products, such as much on Belgian Beer and it is unquestionably one of
the best source of info on Speciality Beer in Italy. It has some English pages.
The irrepressible (Kuaska, see above, is very much involved with the
site. He tells me that "A Tutta Birra" usually means "Runs
Faster", and that this expression is derived from the fact that British race
horse trainers once gave beer to their charges to make them run faster. The shop
does not have "All The Beers" ("tutta" being the feminine
form of "all"), but over 500, with many rarities, from Belgium, the
UK, The Netherlands and Italy, etc. Further information on A Tutta Birra can be found on the White Beer Travels Web page featuring Italy, which can be reached by clicking here.
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Beerpassion
Yet another site from Italy attests to the growing interest in Specialty Beer in this country. Naples (Napoli)-based Alfio Ferlito clearly has a passion for beer, as his excellent Italian- and English-language site demonstrates. It covers the taste of beer and how its gets its taste. An Events page covers Speciality Beer happenings in Italy. There are also some useful Links.
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Its description of the White Beer Travels website, translated from Italian, reads: "Are You looking for a website that can take you all over the
quality beer world ? Then stop now; this is the top one that you will find!" |
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Het Labryint, Kemmel,
Belgium
This is more than just a Specialty Beer
bar and restaurant, in a lovely part of Belgium, the Heuvelland; there is an archaeology
museum, a maze (labyrinth), an art gallery and marvellous facilities for children,
integrated with this don't-miss, life enhancing place. It has a shop, the Krinkeldewinkel, selling games, toys and local souvenirs.
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the page with the link to "White Beer Travels", click on "Links"
on Het Labyrint's site. This details a visit by a group of White Beer Travels
Beer Hunters, in July, 2003. Click here for more
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Beer Mania is the biggest beer shop in Brussels. It was opened
by Nasser Eftekhari in 1983. The place's excellent website has a list of all
the beers and their prices, indeed the beers can be ordered from it, for shipment
to most parts of the world. It was always possible to taste before purchase, but
in October, 2002, the place was expanded into the shop next door, to incorporate
a bar and a restaurant.
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ratebeer
This
justly famous American site has ratings on hundreds of beers based on Internet
voting, a long time number one being the world-class
Trappist beer, Westvleteren 12o (ABT) (10.2%). Being
at the top is quite appropriate for this great beer. Click here
for a White Beer Travels page featuring its brewery tap.
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2nd
Page with link to White Beer Travels
3rd Page with link to White Beer Travels
The second link is to Jez (rauchbier, Smoke Beer)
Blake's account of a White Beer Travels Beer Hunt featuring the Zythos Beer Festival,
Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, and a major event in a Pajottenland pub, called "In De Verzekering
Tegen De Grote Dorst", see above, in March, 2004.
The third is to a review of the White Beer Travels Web page featuring Sydney, Australia, one review describing me as "The grand old man of web beer tourism"; well I was sixty on the 15th of May, 2005!
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Me! This is another famous and essential
American site (the former "Beer is my Life!" site). It is a massive
source of information on Speciality (Craft) Beer throughout the world. It has
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The Whisky Room
Despite its title, John (Johnny) Holdsworth's excellent links site covers other topics, including beer.
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Henry's Beer Links Henry
Kaspar's site has loads of links and beer news.
Henry is based in Houston, Texas. |
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The
Belgian Beer Escort
The title of the Home page
of this site is "The Multi Media Guide to Belgian Beer". It is an excellent
site, set up by Steve Gale, who was the originator of the next site featured,
the "Burgundian Babble Belt" message board. Among its many interesting
pages, the "Multi Media" theme is illustrated by following the How
it Sounds link. On this page, one can here how a word such as "Goudenband"
(a famous Brown Ale), is pronounced in Flemish.
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This link
is a page reporting on a major event that took place, in March, 2004, in
a Belgian pub called "In De Verzekering Tegen De Grote Dorst".
Steve states: "Thanks to John White, White Beer Travels, for providing much
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Burgundian
Babble Belt
Despite its name, this is a Specialty/Speciality/Craft
Beer Message Board, Belgium being its main focus, although, probably because
the site is run from the USA, Craft Beers
from the USA are also well covered.
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Filip
Geert's Site: surf.to/beer
Filip is a Speciality
Beer enthusiast, who was born and lives in Bruges, in Belgium. His excellent
site has a superb list of links covering the Belgian Specialty Beer scene. However,
the site is famous for its Belgian Beer Pub Map, www.beerpubmap.be.
This is a really good resource; if one clicks on one of the bottles on the map,
one is provided with info, with photos, of Speciality Beer bars in the location
in question. It is updated on a very regular basis; it is a must-visit Web page. Daniël Van Herck, of the Café 206, in
Sint-Katelijne Waver
(www.sloeber.be, Link to White Beer Travels), sponsors the Belgian Beer Pub Map site.
Filip
can also build you a multi-lingual website, see for example the marvellous ones
he has done for: Dickie's Beer- & Grillhouse, an excellent Specialty Beer
bar and restaurant, in Bruges;
the great cellar bar, De Zolder, the next entry; Kroegske, in Emelgem (www.kroegske.be, White Beer Travels Web page), one of the world's greatest Speciality Beer bars; the one for Brugse Autonome Bierproevers (BAB) (Bruges Autonomous Beer Tasters) (www.babbierproevers.be) the Bruges branch of Zythos; and the one for BAB's annual beer festival, in Bruges, www.brugsbierfestival.be. Another of Filip's excellent websites covers 't Hamerken, a "Vereniging voor Brouwerijgeschiedenis" (Brewery History Society), www.thamerken.be, which is based in 't Hamerken, a bar within De Halve Maan Brewery (www.halvemaan.be), in Bruges.
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Filip also has the essential "Belgian Beer Board" message board/website, www.belgianbeerboard.be
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Austrian Beer
From this website, there is a very good selection of Austrian Beers available for purchase on-line. It is is part of The Austrian Shop website, www.austrianshop.com, which, of course, has other products from Austria on offer.
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Europe By.com-Hotels in Europe
From this site one can book hotels and other accommodation (Apartments, Residences, Villas, and Bed & Breakfast) accommodation in Europe. The site is run by Worldby.com, www.worldby.com,
one of Europe´s largest online tour operators. There are sub-pages to the site covering places such as Amsterdam (www.amsterdamby.com), Prague (www.pragueby.com) and Paris (www.parisby.com).
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Europe Vacations
This is a comprehensive directory of Vacations in Europe. Click on the link to the right to contact the suppliers, order a free brochure, or inquire about availability.
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Bieromakhs: La grande cave des bières "spéciales" (The Large Specialty Beer Cellar)
This is an excellent, evolving French-language website covering Speciality Beer from Belgium and France. It has a list of Beer shops (click on "Les Fournisseurs"), and a very useful Links page: click on "Liens houblonnés", which is the page with The White Beer Travels link.
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EuroAgentur Prague
This website provides accommodation, travel and catering services (hotels, restaurants, cafés, travel agency, congress tourism), in Prague (Praha), in The Czech Republic (Ceská republika). Prague is a splendid place for both the general tourist and the seasoned Beer Hunter.
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Charles'
George Orwell Links
George Orwell (1903-50), who was born in India (real name Eric Arthur Blair), is a particularly famous English author, some of his many titles including Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), and The Road to Wigan Pier. A particularly excellent source of information on George Orwell is Charles' George Orwell Links", a website which is based in Montreal, in Canada. Charles' website links to White Beer Travels because there is a White Beer Travels Web page featuring George Orwell's favourite pub, the Moon Under Water, which can be reached by clicking here.
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1st Page with link to White Beer Travels
This is on Charles' Miscellaneous page, i.e. the link is the one on this page with the hyperlinked text: John White visits Orwell's favourite pub - "The Moon Under Water"
2nd Page with link to White Beer Travels
This is Charles' scan and OCR of The Moon Under Water from The Complete
Works of George Orwell (1998). The second occurrence of Moon Under Water is a hyperlink to the White Beer Travels page featuring this pub, as are links in As I Please (28 Jan 1944) (the text "a barmaid informed me that if you pour beer" [into a damp glass it goes flat much more quickly.]) and A Passage from India (the text "Orwell had a couple of beers").
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George Orwell 1903 - 1950 This is another excellent website covering George Orwell. It is the work of Vienna (Wien) resident, Maroš Kollár. It is a big site, readily navigable using its Sitemap.
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www.k-1.com/Orwell
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La Trappe Verzamelaarsgilde
(Collectors' Guild)
This is Tilburg-based Wim Grem's essential website covering items from the De Koningshoeven Trappist Brewery, in Berkel-Enschot, near Tilburg, such as beer glasses (headed GLAZEN), bottle labels (ETIKETTEN), beer mats (coasters) (VILTJES), Dispense Tap Ends and their Tap Clips (TAPKNOP-RUITERS), and miscellaneous items, such as postcards (DIVERSE). This Dutch brewery produces the La Trappe range of beers (www.latrappe.nl, White Beer Travels Web page). Wim also has another well known collector's website, De Versamelaar (The Collector) (www.de-verzamelaar.nl).
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There are two links to the White Beer Travels website (Home page and De Koningshoeven page) on the La Trappe Collectors' Guild website's Home page.
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Brau-Konzept
Brau-Konzept are leading suppliers of top quality microbreweries and microbrewery equipment. They are based in Fürstenwalde, near Berlin, in Germany. They have a world-wide customer reference list. The page on the Brau-Konzept website with the link to White Beer Travels is its Internatonal Links page; for the German, Swiss and Austrian ones, click here.
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Bierreis door België
en Nederland
(Beer Journey through Belgium & The Netherlands)
Jan
van Pelt's excellent, full-of-links site does just what is says in an excellent
way. Jan is based in Andrimont, Belgium. Note that Jan is also responsible for
an excellent site covering Beer Literature, the Bierliteratuurlijst site, www.bierliteratuur.tk
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www.bierreis.com
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Blue Bell Inn
This is a marvellous pub, run by Steve Marquis, on the top of Halkyn Mountain, in, Flintshire, in Wales (Rhosesmor Road (B5123), Halkyn, CH8 8DL). Not only does it have a great selection of Real Ales, these including, ever-changing Guest Beers, but it also, unusually for Cymru, has a top-class draught/tap Cider. It features in CAMRA's Good Beer Guide (page 598 of the 2006 edition) and its Good Cider Guide (Fifth Edition, 2005). It is a renowned base for walking. The place's excellent website has an extensive selection of categorised Links.
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www.bluebell.uk.eu.org
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Tony's Beer Mats
This is Tony Peach's excellent site covering, well, beer mats. The links page in this field is especially good. Tony is based in Telford, in England.
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| hobbybirra.it This
is a very good Italian site, with much information on the fast developing Speciality
Beer scene in Italy. |
www.hobbybirra.it
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Jan's Beer Pages This
is a superb site, absolutely teaming with relevant information and links. It is
the work of Dutchman Jan Meinders. |
www.beercollection.net
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the page with the link to White Beer Travels, click on "Links" and then
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beer4home.co.uk
Cask Ale at the Click of a Mouse
From this website, you can order Polypins and Mini Casks of UK Real Ale, that are delivered to your door. The site also has pertinent information, such as on the brewing process, and there are ratings of the beers available.
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www.belgianbeers.info
This site provides information on Belgian Beer, and also details of a Beer Hunt, in 2007, that one can book on.
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De HuurFietsWatou
(Watou Cycle Hire)
Watou, in West Flanders, Belgium, is an excellent base for getting around an area that is teaming with renowned Specialty Beer venues. A very good option is to hire a cycle from De HuurFietsWatou, Vijfhoekstraat 6, tel 057 36 06 62, which is just off Watouplein, Watou's main square. Click here for a White Beer Travels Web page covering Watou.
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AAAA HOTELS
The AAAA HOTELS website provides information on hotels in Prague, the Capital of The Czech Republic. From the site, hotel reservation enquiries can be made. Note that the "Links" hyperlink on the Home page provides access to hundreds of useful, world-wide links to categorised websites. covering a number of topics; there are over 900 "Travel" ones.
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Real Ale Tasting Society
R.A.T.S.
This is a marvellous site, produced by
a "Real" enthusiast, Dave Jones, who is based in Mid Glamorgan, Wales.
In addition to news from Dave's own area, there is much more, particularly lots
of pertinent links, including ones to all known branches of CAMRA, the Campaign
for Real Ale. |
www.rats-nest.co.uk/RATS_SITE2
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Ciuitre.it This
is Vincenzo "Ciuitre" Tucciarone's excellent multi-language Italian
site. It has tons of great information on beer throughout the world and thousands
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Brewtopia Events
Classic City Brew Fest
Owen Ogletree is an award
winning homebrewer and director of the "Classic City Brew Fest", in
Athens, Georgia, USA. The festival is covered on Owen's site, along with a marvellous
miscellany of beer related things, such as full details of Owen's Beer Hunts around
the world. A photo taken in Liverpool, of Owen, Kerri (Beer Wench) Allen, and yours truly, John White, can be reached by clicking here.
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