Very much to my surprise, I made it to the finale yesterday in the Dutch Cup of Beer Sommeliers. And it didn’t stop there, because after one scary, but exciting, crazy and fun finale I came in second!
Tag: Diplom Biersommelier
Dutch Cup of Beer Sommeliers 2023
Monday morning, the fourth of July. Nineteen beer sommeliers are ready to compete against each other in the third Dutch Cup of Beer Sommeliers.
Eindhoven: OLDSKOOL Brewery
I present brewery OLDSKOOL, or Dennis Kort, Enfant Terrible 😉 (I mean this affectionately) of the Dutch Beer World since 2007.
Dutch Cup of Beer Sommeliers 2022
Last Monday it finally happened! Together with 18 colleagues I participated in the Dutch Cup of Beer Sommeliers!
Brewery: De Gooische Bierbrouwerij
With the current status of the world I don’t feel like traveling abroad, so I took the opportunity to visit four of my favourite people in the Dutch brewing world; Carina and Gert from brewery Mommeriete and Arjanneke and Gijs from De Gooische bierbrouwerij.
StiBON: Level 2
As soon as I heard that I passed the level 1 exams I signed up for level 2. Level 2 consists of 12 (actually 13) detailed lessons about everything you can imagine beer related, but like every course in the end you have just scratched the surface.
Dutch Championships for Biersommelier (2018)
In June 2018 the Guild for Dutch Biersommeliers organised the first Dutch Championships for Biersommelier. The Champions were partly meant to figure out which three contestants would participate in the World Championships on behalf of the Netherlands.
Doemens-StiBON diplom biersommelière
This year 15 years ago Axel Kiesbye from Obertrum am See near Salzburg, Austria established the course for Diplom Biersommelier in a collaboration with Doemens-Akademie in Grafelfing near München, Germany.