For fans of beer, there are few better destinations than Belgium — home to some of the most historical breweries in the world. In fact, the tiny nation is home to over 200 breweries cranking out all ...

A Belgian ale is often the beer that folks cite when asked ‘which beer made them fall in love with beer.’ There isn’t a “single” Belgian ale. But the overall idea of the Trappist ales, the farmhouse ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian brewers accompanied by musicians dressed in medieval costumes took a barrel of beer to Brussels' cathedral on Friday for consecration as part of an annual celebration of ...

BRUSSELS, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Belgium is promoting its centuries of beer-making and 430 breweries with a new visitor centre in Brussels that recounts the history of Belgian production and aims to show ...

A sacred sip of herbal beer. When the nuns of Belgium's Maredret Abbey were struggling to scrape together the funds for renovations, they turned to an occupation that for hundreds of years had been ...

A stroll through the New Braunfels Farmers Market on a drizzly Saturday morning brought me to Humble House Foods where Luis Morales was handing out samples of his San Antonio-made artisanal bleu and ...

Among the great beer-brewing centers of Europe, Belgium is undoubtedly the most unique. The United Kingdom and Ireland are rightly renowned for their pale ales, porters and stouts. The German- and ...

Belgium’s brewing sector saw beer volumes drop again last year, both at home and globally, new figures from a local trade body show. Total export volumes dropped 3.4% in 2024 to 14.5m hectolitres ...

Churches may consecrate their wine, but only beer can be holy. Trappist ales are made by monks to fund charitable work. Once produced in their abbeys, modern demands mean modern breweries. Monks still ...