What’s the little glass for? The best way to get the answer is to view the “Perfect Pouring Ritual” video.
But how do you get one?
Affligem, DRAFT Magazine and the Flanders Tourism Board have organized a contest in which 200 consumers will receive the “Perfect Pouring Ritual” and a grand prize winner will get a trip [...]

Call it Plan B.
You might remember when two New Mexico monasteries were supposed to build a brewery near Pecos, N.M. Didn’t happen. That was five years ago. Today the building pictured above is going up at the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, which is located almost 100 miles from Pecos.
It’s small, not anywhere near [...]

I’m pretty sure that as much as Tim Webb loves Belgian beer he will agree that eventually he will have published all the books on the topic that are necessary.
The latest is “Around Brussels in 80 Beers” and ostensibly this is a review of that book. Good book. More in a moment.
Webb has been writing [...]

The Monastery of Christ in the Desert in northern New Mexico wants to start a small brewery so it can take over the Monks’ Ale label now held by a Pecos monastery.
The Santa Fe New Mexican has the slightly confusing story. Here are the key elements:
- Originally Christ of the Desert and the Pecos [...]

Brewers Publications, a division the Brewers Association and publisher of Brew Like a Monk, recently released the sixth edition of Michael Jackson’s Great Beers of Belgium.
This is a major upgrade from the third edition, the last that was generally available in the United States, because Jackson was particularly passionate about Belgian-brewed beers and relentless about [...]