2024 October 29th
I had a great time judging in the preliminaries of the Brussels Beer Challenge, together with so many lovely people. Thank you for inviting me again this year! And good luck and have fun to everyone next week in Ghent! Cheers!
2024 September 8th
It was an awesome day of beer tasting today! Congratulations, Muifelbrouwerij!
2024 September 1st
Remember Brabants Lekkerste Bier competition (Brabants tastiest beer)? This year Judy and I have been invited to be part of the superjury to vote for Brabants ALLERlekkerste Bier (Brabants tastiestest 😉 beer). Will you join us at bierfestival pROOSt in Hilvarenbeek next Sunday?
2024 August 28th
We celebrated dad’s birthday at La Trappe this year. Somehow I never got around to visiting the abbey of Onze Lieve Vrouw van Koningshoeven before and I definitely need to go back again soon. On a not-Sunday. It’s a gorgeous place to visit, but also (not surprisingly) quite popular with tourists and all.
2024 August 26th
The surroundings were gorgeous, but the training was brutal! Monday saw us working hard trying to really internalise the discriminating differences between some very similar beer types. My brain was mush at the end of the evening. I loved it! But I am still recovering from the brain burn 😅
2024 August 13th
first official tasting training for the 2024 Dutch Cup. With lovely flavours like pineapple, strawberry, clove, plastic, wet cardboard, baby puke, banana and skunk.
2024 July 22nd
first unofficial training for the Dutch Cup of 2024 this summer
2024 July 8th
Judy and I, among others, are SUPERJURY at Brabants ALLERlekkerste Bier this year!
2024 July 6th
It was a good day at Van Moll Fest!
2024 June 26th
We visited the huge Boortmalt plant in the harbor of Antwerp with a group of 44 beer sommeliers, all ready to spend a day at (on top of?) this factory. It was a hot! day, but since a malting plant is a literal collection of ovens, it was not that bad. After spending some time inside, it actually felt cool outside.
And, we will do everything for beer, of course!
2024 June 14th
Judging beers at the awesome Fermentation Festival at Delft University.
Seems like we are judging beers every few weeks now 😉
2024 June 12th
Workshop German Beers by Dennis Kort. Zum Wohl!
2024 June 10th
New PINT magazine is in! Unexpectedly I am in here twice 😉
2024 May 17th
Second year judging beers at the Women’s international Trophy with all these lovely people!
2024 April 10th
Cheers to an awesome day of hard work and great company in Rotterdam and Breda for the Dutch Beer Challenge!
2024 March 24th
Here are the latest PINT magazine articles Judy and I wrote.
2024 February 2nd
Beer tasting obstacle practice run! Will we be able to taste, describe and guess the beers or will we be sidetracked by the cats?
2024 January 16th
Today the fifth Beer Geeks (beat ALS) beer was brewed at Lighttown Brewers! If you want to help, you can find several options on https://beergeeksbeatals.nl/
2024 January 14th
Today I gave a crash course on beer and flavours to an awesomely chaotic group at their team building day. I normally don’t share any pictures of such private events, but this time I got this gif ??
2023 October 28th
Yesterday was the NGBS Yeast Masterclass at brewpub De Kromme Haring by Willem van Waesberghe and Stephen Grigg. Very interesting, so much information!
2023 September 9th
The oldest regional PINT group celebrated their 35th yesterday at Stadsbrouwerij Tilburg!
2023 July 3rd
Last monday was the third Dutch Cup of Beer Sommeliers! And the winner is… Dennis Kort! Congratulations!
2023 June 24th
Flavour and beer types training in the countryside. Try recognising sulfur based flavours while the neighbour is fertilising her crops 
While we were there, we visited Van de Oirsprong as well.
2023 June 8th
The third night of three of a very interesting in-dept course on Dutch beer history by Leendert Alberts.
2023 June 1st
The second night of three of a very interesting in-dept course on Dutch beer history by Leendert Alberts.
2023 May 25th
The first night of three of a very interesting in-dept course on Dutch beer history by Leendert Alberts.
2023 May 17th
?Cheers to Madame Rose.? We lost an icon. My condolences ?
Rosa Merckx (98), voormalig directeur brouwerij Liefmans en eerste brouwmeesteres in België, is overleden
2023 May 12th
At the Women’s International Trophy’s (Beer) Competition!
2023 May 11th
On our way to Mainz for the Women’s International Trophy’s Beer Competition! ?
2023 April 21st
Unexpected places to enjoy a beer tasting by Pizza Port Brewery: Disney California Adventure!
2023 March 25th
First beer festival of the season! Despite the imminent threat of rain and thunder, it was great fun at Bier & Big!
2023 March 13th
A quick tasting training hour on a Monday night. Which is actually mostly smelling, come to think of it. I don’t think I drank more than an average glass of beer in total.
2023 March 4th
Today was the official opening of Club Craft @ Sectie-C, where you can now also find De Bierbrigadier. Be ready for a lot of beery events to be organised in and around Eindhoven by this club!
2023 February 26th
Having fun with a pre-beer-food-pairing tasting test
2023 February 12th
Beer training preparations
2023 January 16th
Celebrating friendship ??
2022 December 14th
My year in beer!
2022 December 13th
Together with Erwin van Moll and Fedor Vogel, I talked a bit about beer, Eindhoven and De Efteling on Bierradio Brewpod today (in Dutch): https://bierradio.nl/podcasts/bierradio-brewpod-25-van-moll-craft-beer/
2022 December 9th
Happy Holidays!
2022 November 30st
Every month we come together with the Dutch Schneider Weisse Fanclub and this time we did something extra!
2022 November 15th
Something is brewing in Eindhoven!
2022 November 14th
Water workshop @ brewery Maximus in Utrecht with Mark Brons , Roel Mulder and Willem van Waesberghe.
2022 October 21st
Preliminaries for the Brussels Beer Challenge!
2022 September 11th
Third place for the Netherlands!!!! Woohoo!!! ??
Niet een, maar zelfs twee Nederlanders in de finale van het Wereldkampioenschap Biersommelier! En Léon wint brons! https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/4146838/leon-wint-brons-op-wk-voor-biersommeliers-het-was-ontzettend-zwaar
Onwards to the finale!
Hubert and Léon made it to the finals!!
2022 September 10th
The World Cup Biersommeliers. For everyone who wants to see the finale of the World Cup Beersommeliers, there will be a livestream at 3 o’clock: https://m.facebook.com/events/418072746978346/
2022 September 2nd
Almost on their way to München!
2022 July 9th
Don’t forget to visit me at Van Moll Fest today! You can find me at the ticket scan.
2022 July 4th
Against my better judgement I’m going to participate in the Dutch Cup of Beer Sommeliers next week! ??
For all beer sommeliers who still want to join, today is your last chance to register! https://ngbs.nl/activiteit/uitnodiging-2e-nederlands-kampioenschap-biersommeliers/
2022 June 20th
Blind tasting practice for the Dutch Championships Biersommelier. 10 beer types (yay) and 10 off flavours (nay). ?? With a total score of 10 I would have been through to the finals.
2022 June 6th
Today was the official opening of the newest brewery in Eindhoven: You can now find an auxillary branch of Uiltje Brewing Company in Café Restaurant Eindhoven!
2022 May 11th
Vroemmm….! I just received this in the mail! ?Will be continued….(After the Schneider Weisse Fanclubtreffen)
2022 March 7th
I have the honour of being invited to be a beer judge for the third time for the Dutch Beer Challenge 2022!
Dutch Beer Challenge
2022 January 23rd
We bottled the beer!
2021 December 21st
Blessed Yule!
2021 December 16th
Newest article in PINT magazine, which is surprisingly Eindhoven oriented this edition
2021 November 6th
A speed visit to Nevel and more in Nijmegen
2021 October 31st
DnD day at Van Moll brewpub Eindhoven!
2021 September 29th
There we are again!
2021 July 17th
Have you seen Judy and me in PINT magazine?
2021 June 3rd
New nifty promos to use for beer tastings and such
2021 May 28th
I made an introduction short for one of the beers for a digital PINT beer tasting
2021 May 16th
On Sunday May 16th at 13.00 h on RTL7 and on Friday May 21st at 15.30 h on RTLZ you can see me on TV in Van Graan tot Glas (From grain to glass).
Videos: https://vimeo.com/547125334 and https://www.videoland.com/series/500668/breaking-business and https://www.rtlxl.nl/programma/breaking-business/9f474ff1-dad1-32dd-b0ff-ea6d74f381f8
2021 May 13th
The results of the Dutch Beer Challenge 2021 are in! Check them here: https://resultaten.dutchbeerchallenge.nl/
2021 April 23th
Yesterday I had the honour to be a judge for the Dutch Beer Challenge to taste a lot of wonderful beers and to meet a lot of colleagues and friends again (safely of course) I hadn’t seen for over a year! The winning beers will be known on May 12th!
2021 April 20th
I’m going to be on television in May! Who doesn’t love talking about beer in front of a camera?
2021 April 19th
“De Dutch Beer Challenge 2021 komt eraan. De zevende editie alweer van de competitie die consument en horeca kan helpen bij een mooie bierselectie.” https://www.entreemagazine.nl/node/34771
2021 April 13th
Yay! A 9 for Social Responsibility/Sociale Hygiëne ?
2021 April 2nd
A fellow beer sommelier tipped me to do the Social Responsibility exam, so I did.
I passed today with a score of 38/40 😀
2021 March 21st
I’m going to do something new. Or well, actually I already did it before, but in another format. What, you ask? I’ll tell you soon!
2021 March 1st
So close yet so far away! Last week I walked to the Belgian border, but being the well-behaved citizen I am, I did not cross it to visit the Achelse Kluis. The signs told me I could walk to De Koningshoeve instead, but that seemed to be a bit of an overkill. ?
So we just wandered the forests and all and ended with a beer in the sun
2021 February 19th
We did the Beer in a Box blind tasting! It was fun and very nicely done with the gorgeous labels and the chosen styles and such.
We guessed all the beer styles, and for the alcohol percentages we both guessed five correctly independently, but we corrected each other wrongly when we filled in the test site, so we finally had a score of 10 out of 12, which I’m happy with ??
Thank you, Bear!
2021 January 8th
We did a blind tasting of 23 German pilsners.
Never knew it was possible to safely transport 69 glasses in a backpack
2021 January 3th
I received the specially brewed beers for Judy’s 10.000th Untappd check-in!
2020 December 24th
It’s Christmas and I received awesome new beer books to prepare myself for brewing in the preHistorisch Dorp in Eindhoven!
2020 December 21th
I’m trying something new! A lot of times I want to share something small, but I don’t feel like writing a whole blog about it (yet). So I’m looking for a way to share short updates, maybe like this. Lets start with something fun: Have you ever listened to the Oettinger fan songs?