Coming Saturday the 6th and Sunday the 7th of  March, the greatest and biggest yearly Belgium Beer Festival from Zythos is held in Sint-Niklaas !!

I will be there on Sunday and hope to try out some new stuff…

I’m looking forward to get to know some of the brews from De Scheldebrouwerij, their beers have funny names like : Lamme Goedzak, Schoenalappertje, Zeezuiper and others. All their beers are new to me !!

Other interesting breweries that are going to be present are : De Dolle Brouwers, Boon, De Glazen Toren, De Ranke and Dileweys.

I hope to touch base  with some of the folks from Ratebeer.com and BeerAdvocate.com

About 200 beers from 60 brewers will be available, also a beer-tombola and a beer-shop.

You can see the complete list from the attending brewers and their beers on draft on www.zbf.be

Cheers from Kurt.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, Febuari 10 2010, there will be a tasting event of West-Vleteren 12 taking place @ Beer-restaurant Het Elfde Gebod in Antwerpen, Belgium.

Kurt from Belgiuminabox and a small crowd of 5 American beer-connaisseurs will taste West-Vleteren 12 Vintage 2006 and fresh West-Vleteren 2010.  Also, Sint-Bernardus 12 will take part into the tasting-event…

All beers will have room temperature of 16°C.

I’m exited to learn and experience new insights  into the tasting !!

I hope to give some valuable feed-back (with the Belgiuminabox-tasing sheets) in my next blogpost…

Cheers, Kurt.

I recently discovered that there is a nation-wide shortage of  De Cam products from Gooik, Flemsish-Brabant, meaning that the Kriek and Gueuze from Geueuzestkerij De Cam are out of stock in Belgium !!

It is unclear when this interruption will be corrected…

One thing that’s true is that  gueuze-distributers and beer-enthousiasts are getting nervous !!

Belgiuminabox.com was lucky to  get hold of some rare beauties.

New to the beer-shop are some rare Gueuzes and Krieks from De Cam, Vintage/Aged-style !!

Check out www.belgiuminabox.com and go to Vintage beer, Fruit beer and Gueuzes to look for what we have in stock !! Not in the least the Belgian beer community and gueuze fans all over the world are actively hoping to see fresh bottelings from  Karel Goddeaux, De Cam’s master-brewer/bottler.

Meanwhile gueuze-stekers and brewers like Boon, Cantillion, Hanssens, Girardon, 3 Fontein and Moriaux are producing top of the bill beers.

Kurt from Belgiuminabox would love to hear your feedback on this topic. Here our finger is on the pulse, if something happens, we know and we will share it with you !!

CHEERS,

Kurt.

Coming soon to Belgiuminabox are some very nice and hard to get by Belgian beers and our world-famous Belgian chocolates like the original “Antwerpse Handjes”.

New beers that I am very proud of to introduce to Belgiuminabox include the original and fairly unknown Moriaux Gueuze (this one will be available in both 375 and 75cl bottles).

Another beauty will be a Christmas bottling from Rochefort 8, bottled in a 1,5 l bottle !!

Also new @ the shop will be a fresh delivery of the highly sought after Westvleteren 12, or Westy 12.

All this new and exciting stuff and about 60 other new beers and other Belgian products will be sold @belgiuminabox, the best and all-in-one webshop for Belgian products !!

Kurt.

At Belgiuminabox, we realize that staying connected with our client base on the one hand and being active in the world of beer is very important !

Starting soon on the shop is a new forum where people can send us their questions about Belgium beer, the breweries and other topics from Belgium’s beercountry. Kurt from Belgiuminabox or a quest-speaker will try to answer your question live from a typical Belgian pub, a brewery,…

A lot is possible, as long it is fun and interesting : live beer-tastings, beer-festival visits,…

Any new ideas from you are welcome too !!

Use the contact form at belgiuminabox.com to start firing questions.

So stay tuned and cheers from Kurt.

Starting from today, we are now able to accept iDEAL payments.

iDeal Logo

iDEAL is the market leader for WebBanking in The Netherlands. The processing of the payment is still done through the Ogone platform. Ogone is the leading European Payment Service Provider supplying e-commerce solutions.

Belgiuminabox is always looking to do things better, where it is safe, easy and fun to shop.

Message to our Dutch customers :  Ik hoop jullie binnenkort te mogen begroeten als klant van Belgiuminabox !

Met vriendelijke groet,
Kurt.

The king of beers. The holy grail of beer. The best beer in the world. Those are some of names used to describe the beers made by the monks of the abbey of Saint Sixtus of Westvleteren. Since the rating-sites from BeerAdvocate.com and Ratebeer.com rated Westvleteren 12 or Westy 12 “the worlds best beer”, it also has become the most sought after beer in the world…

Westvleteren Trappist is sold only to individual customers by a limited amount of 2 crates, per person, once a month. While buying, every customer promises not to sell the beer to others. The Trappist monks bring to market their limited production of 60,000 cases to earn money to survive, to run the abbey and to fund various charities.

Trappist command : Thou Shalt Not Buy Too Much Of Our Beer.

Beer lovers say the excitement over Westvleteren is a hype born of scarcity and I couldn’t agree more. Online entrepreneurs have jumped on this in-equality in the market of low supply and high demand and are selling Westvleteren beers for as much as 10 times the price the monks ask. That is not a situation the monks wanted and is frankly disrespectful towards their wishes and what their vows stand for.

Illegal resale

Saint-Sixtus filed suit against the 2 compagnies that refused to stop reselling purchased Westvleteren, despite a friendly warning from the monks. Westvleteren beers shorly are amongst Belgium’s very best and I too think they’re great within their category.  Only, if St-Sixtus, located deep in West-Flanders, near the French border is a little bit too far for you, just consider an alternative equally as good…

Why don’t you try a Sint-Bernardus Abt 12 or a Trappist Rochefort 10 from l’Abbaye Notre-Dame de Saint-Remy instead ? Both beers are on Kurt’s Favourites’ List, are truly great and without doubt belong in the same league as the Westy’s. Allow those beers to mature and if given time, the beers continue to ripe.

Cheers.

Kurt Verbiest
Belgium In A Box

I’ve been optimizing the beer descriptions the were written by ABC.

ABC stands for Antwerps Bier College (in English : Antwerp Beer College) and is a local beer and debate club from Antwerp who revised some of the beers for Belgiuminabox. Look for the paper-clip on of the pictures, so you can read what they have to say…

What is maybe a little to early to mention, Belgiuminabox is going to make pre-composed Boxes aka AntwerpBox,  BrusselsBox,  TrappistBox,  ConnaisseursBox, …
That makes is easier for someone who likes to give a set of Belgian beers for a friend’s birthday or for Father’s Day, but doesn’t know what to pick.
If you have any great ideas on that, please thouch base with us and let us know !!
But as I say, that’s still early bird.

In the meantime, enjoy life and talk you soon.
Cheers,
Kurt.

It took me more than a while, but finally, it’s there : Belgiuminabox is up and running!

I would like to thank everyone who gave me advice and listened to my story about Belgiuminabox.com and why I wanted to do this in the first place.

The site is now in the air, but this of course is the first stage. In the near future, more Belgian products will be added.

Stay tuned for more!

Greetings,
Kurt.