Welcome to my beer sommelier adventures

LÉON WON GOLD AND DENNIS WON SILVER!

THE DUTCH TEAM WON THE WORLD CUP OF BEER SOMMELIERS

Like every person born in the 60s, 70s and 80s in the Netherlands I grew up in the beer wastelands. It was a time where pils was synonym to beer. Needless to say I didn’t begin my alcoholic adventures with beer, but I got there eventually and I even decided to study beer. Now I’m an international biersommelier and the runner-up of the Dutch Cup of 2024! Which means I will be going to the World Cup in 2025. You can read more about me here.

I love to organise beer talks, beer walks, beer games and other beer activities in Dutch (Nederlands) and English and I could organise something for you as well.

I also love to travel around for beer and research the subject more. Even though the blog part of this page is mostly on hold for now, you can still find previous adventures in my blog. And only the blog part is on hold, I am still active with all kind of beer related activities.

I’m from Eindhoven, so of course there’s a dedicated page to Eindhoven.

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News!

2026 January 5th

I’m invited as beer judge again for the Dutch Beer Challenge 2026!

2025 December 24th

PINT Winter 2025

2025 September 18th

Did I mention I made my own clothes for the World Cup?

2025 September 10th

PINT Autumn 2025

2025 September 9th

Since we are a 80% Brabants team we made it into the three Brabantse newspapers!

2024 November 24th

I finished second in the Dutch Cup of Beer Sommeliers! I am going to the World Cup next year!

You can find more short updates over here: 
News and Short updates

Latest blog posts

  • Malt houses
    Malt. Since you are reading this blog, you probably know something about beer and its present-day main ingredients: water, yeast, hops and malt, But what’s malt?
  • World Cup of Beer Sommeliers 2025
    I participated in the World Cup for Beer Sommeliers!
  • Lambic Academy, Zenne Valley and Brussels
    Not as long and extensive as my usual blog posts and a bit too staccato and all over the place, but it became too long for the News section, so blog post it is.
  • 2024 Dutch Cup of Beer Sommeliers Runner-up!
    Very much to my surprise, I made it to the finale yesterday in the Dutch Cup of Beer Sommeliers. And that was just the beginning!