The Belgian Smaak Podcast | Exploring the world of Belgian beer

Photos by Jonny Garrett This editorially independent podcast has been supported by VISITFLANDERS as part of the “Game Changers” series of podcasts. Garrett is the co-founder of The Craft Beer Channel and the author of several books about beer including Beer School, A Year in Beer, and his most recent book The Meaning of Beer. Jonny’s story about Westvlete

Photos by Kasper Mundt-Nielsen This editorially independent podcast has been supported by VISITFLANDERS as part of the “Straight Talk” series of podcasts. podcast is about Belgian Beer World, the new visitor experience housed in the iconic Bourse building in Brussels’ city centre. The podcast features an in-depth interview with Krishan Maudgal, D

Photos by Cliff Lucas This editorially independent podcast has been supported by VISITFLANDERS as part of the “Game Changers” series of podcasts. podcast is about the Oude Geuze Mariage Parfait from Brouwerij Boon. It involves reporting and storytelling from Claire Bullen, a freelance writer and editor who specialises in food, drink, and travel. Cla

Photos by Cliff Lucas This editorially independent podcast has been supported by VISITFLANDERS as part of the “Common Place” series of podcasts.  his Lambic blendery Het Boerenerf, Senne Eylenbosch saved his father’s farm, discovered his own identity, and began the next chapter in his family’s storied Lambic heritage. You’d be forgive

Photos by Cliff Lucas This editorially independent podcast has been supported by VISITFLANDERS as part of the “Common Place” series of podcasts.  Bravin, Félix Damien, and Martin Pirenne started Brasserie La Jungle in March 2020. Today, Pirenne lives in Canada, emigrating to work at another brewery in Qubec. This podcast is a conversation

Photos by Cliff Lucas This editorially independent podcast has been supported by VISITFLANDERS as part of the “Common Place” series of podcasts. has purchase on a roughly 65 kilometre stretch of North Sea coast. Bordered by Bray-Dunes and the French Opal coast to the south and Cadzand and Zeeuws-Vlaanderen in The Netherlands to the north, Belgium’

Photos by Cliff LucasProduction support by Audiotheque This editorially independent podcast has been supported by VISITFLANDERS as part of the “Straight Talk” series of podcasts.  has a rich festival scene. Every single weekend in the year, you could choose between a multitude of music shows, food markets, neighbourhood parties, and cultur

Photos by Ahmed ElAmin of The Beer Idiots Production support from BitstreamSupported by VISITFLANDERS. year, in April, I moderated a panel discussion on the eve of the Toer de Geuze. The Lambic Roundtable was an event tailor-made for broadcasting in beer bars all over the world, and as you’ll hear from the discussion, we took questions live from bars with

Jerry Franck, Director (left) and Mario Contini, Cinematographer (right) film Bottle Conditioned is the latest film from Jerry Franck, an Academy Award® nominated filmmaker, who is originally from Luxembourg but now living in America. Franck was in Belgium last month for the premiere of the film—a documentary that explores the small Belgian community of Lambic be

Photos by Cliff Lucas This editorially independent podcast has been supported by VISITFLANDERS as part of the “Straight Talk” series of podcasts.  Bruin is a reddish-brown beer of mixed fermentation which presents as malty, fruity, aged, and somewhat acidic. It’s traditionally associated with the provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders, particula