Tag Archives: Cantillon

Wild Yeast

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Aschwin de Wolf

Chris White and Jamil Zainasheff’s Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation is a thorough review of the subject of yeast, with the practical (home)brewer in mind. It is mostly a treatment of commercial brewer’s yeast but there are some … Continue reading →

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Cantillon meets natural wine

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Aschwin de Wolf

Cantillon officialy announced their annual experimental Zwanze beer and a change in their distribution of this beer. Zwanze 2011 will no longer be released in bottles (except for tasting at the brewery) but will be made available on draft to … Continue reading →

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The battle for natural wine

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Aschwin de Wolf

A number of factors led me to read Alice Fiering’s The Battle for Wine and Love: or How I Saved the World from Parkerization, a passionate book about the decline of authentic wine and the rise of global manipulated wine. … Continue reading →

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Drinking lambic beer in Brussels

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Aschwin de Wolf

The renewed interest in traditional lambic beer is gradually translating itself into an increase of locations in Brussels where artisanal geuze and kriek can be found, ranging from the addition of the obligatory bottle of Cantillon geuze to an existing … Continue reading →

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Geuze en kriek: de champagne onder de bieren

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Aschwin de Wolf

One of the reasons for starting this blog was that, as a native Dutch speaker, I would be able to review and consult (historical) Dutch documents about traditional lambic brewing and share this information with English readers. In the coming … Continue reading →

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