Archive for December, 2009

Toast The New Year With The Gueuze

True Story: The Beer Wench has an intense fascination, preoccupation … and obsession with wild yeast beers. The gueze, in particular, is my all time favorite style of beer.
Two years ago, I would have been celebrating New Years with Champagne. But that was before I discovered “The Gueuze” during a fateful visit to Chicago in May [...]

Belgian Beer Mussels

Mussels are hands down one of my favorite things to eat.
Humans have used mussels as food for thousands of years.
Mussels are particularly popular in Belgium, the Netherlands and France – where they are consumed with french fries (“mosselen met friet” or “moules frites”) or bread.

Depending on the source, mussel season is either considered to be any month ending [...]

The Hop Press Team “On Tap”

This week, I decided to write a fun little article about my fellow Hop Press featured publishers so that our readers can get to know us all better.
The question I posed to the Hop Press team was: If you were a style of beer, what style would you be and why?
Allow me to present my Hop [...]

Dr. Bill’s Belgian Beer & Cheese Tasting

This past November, all the stars were aligned and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to San Diego for the tail end of its beer week.
The gods of fate must have looked fairly upon me over those few days. I was able to meet some key figures in the beer industry as well as [...]