We’ve just got back from a week away in Germany. On the way out, we spent a night in Brussels checking into our hotel not long before 10.30 pm on a rainy Tuesday night. That gave us just enough time to dash to our favourite pub, the Poechenellekelder, to try a few items from their […]
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Poechenellekelder, Brussels
Andreea in Belgium tipped us off to this pub a while ago. We popped in on the way out to Germany, and were utterly charmed by the place, so we stopped off for a longer session on the way home. As Andreea says, it is right on the tourist path, and there are lots of […]
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time we’ve got wartime lager, perfect pubs, and more. First, news of an event: there’s an opportunity to find out more about brewing material held by the London Archives (formerly the London Metropolitan Archives) on Friday 13 September. You need […]
Here are all the beer- and pub-related links we bookmarked in the past week, including plenty of challenging stuff about who belongs in beer. This could almost be boilerplate text: BrewDog has not had a good week. After launching a big marketing campaign criticising FIFA and World Cup hosts Qatar, there was significant backlash. They’re […]
Pubs are anti-minimalist by nature and texture sometimes matters more than function. In the 1960s, special effects technicians working on spaceships for Gerry Anderson’s Supermarionation shows realised that they could make them more realistic by covering their surfaces in small, functionless details taken from plastic model kits. They called them ‘wiggets’. When a similar approach […]