Articles about beer

Belgium is located in Western Europe, North of France, West of Germany, South of the Netherlands, and it borders the North Sea. Across the North Sea is London. Belgium is a Federal Kingdom with 2 States and the capital Brussels. The Northern State is Flanders, where 6 million Flemings...

She just served us our first Poperings Hommel ale, and now she hooks up a squeezebox. Is she going to sing? My God, she is! Benedicte Coutigny starts an old Flemish folk song about the pleasures and the pains of harvesting hops in the olden days. We all clap...

Please read first: Belgium, an Introduction.

The European powers of the era created Belgium in 1830. They cut the Southern part of the Netherlands off. This Southern part was only added to the Netherlands in 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon...