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Hops & Hikes
It's always beer o'clock somewhere in the world
Balcony beer: An oatstanding dark intermezzo - Oaty, Trzech Kumpli
Most of my balcony drinks have been rather light-coloured and refreshing beverages. For a bit of variation, I brought out a more savoury...
Balcony beer: Champagne of the North - Dry Hopped Pineapple, Piwne Podziemne
The beautiful summer weather of last week was begging for a refreshing drink. Thanks to my trip to the beer shop, I had just the right...
Balcony beer: A Bitter in the end - Angielskie śniadanie, Browar Pinta
About this time last year, I saw a sponsored message on Facebook of a brand new craft beer shop in the eastern part of Krakow: Åšwiat...
Balcony beer: Polish battle of American IPAs - Mera vs. Califia
Once again, last week we had lovely weather during another weekend in quarantine. And for this balcony beer I decided to pick a beer...
Balcony beer: A Sahti in the sun - Koniec świata, Browar Pinta
Because of the lockdown measures it’s nearly impossible to go out for any type of beer adventures or discoveries. As an alternative, I...
Not only lagers in Czechia - JBM Brew Lab Pub, Brno
To recover from an intense holiday period back home in Belgium, I booked myself a short trip on my own in early January to the Czech...
Sitting on the dock with a beer - Dok Brewing Company, Gent
Before my big emigration to the east, I always had been a little disappointed that my former hometown Gent was lacking a real craft beer...
In the Venice of the north you have your pizza… with beer - Omnipollos hatt, Stockholm
Well, at least in one of the places that claims that title - eat your heart out Amsterdam, Copenhagen, or St-Petersburg!. Another...
Being a beer geek is a genetic condition - Brouwerij Benoit, Kortrijk
Since approximately half of my Facebook feed consists of content coming from breweries from all over the world, every now and then the...
An Englishman in New… Huta - Browar Twigg, Kraków
A few weeks ago I was walking around the city, ending up in the Space Craft pub, one of the only craft beer places in the city I hadn’t...
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