No matter what country you go to a great conversation starter are always the beer prices. You’ll get an answer like “Yeah, it’s not what it used to be”, and so on. Since most governments still see taxes on alcoholic beverages as a great way to pay for their endless amount of well catered meetings…
While the Craft Beer Revolution is gaining territory worldwide people in many countries realize what they have been missing and look at Belgium with envy. This small multilingual country might struggle to do anything a Western European state in the 21st century is expected to, but they sure know how to make beers. In a world…
As this is our 500th post on Lords of the Drinks, we wanted to do a special story. And what better than the great legend of Gambrinus, the King of Beer. You might have seen him before, as he is the fine gentleman you see in the LOTD-logo. This mythical figure was known from folklore tales…
For the cycling fans yesterday was one of the highlights of the season. As the Norwegian Alexander Kristoff won the Tour of Flanders after an exciting race, we found out that the real winner was a rather unknown Irish rider. Matt Brammeier came through first at a sprint in the village Sint-Eloois-Winkel. This however was quite lucrative…
And the winner is…. Czech Republic! That’s right, Czechs drink most beer of all in the world. Well, not in total because that’s China with 54.000.000.000 liters, but with around 1.35 billion habitants that comes down to only 40 liters a year per person. When we calculate the average amount of beer drunk per person,…
Remember the Lords of the Drinks U1600 Tour? That’s right, we searched for the oldest 23 bars in Europe. All of them were founded before the year 1600 (Under 1600). They may have switched names or owners in this time but they never stopped serving beers. This amazing journey takes you through 11 different countries.…
Nothing like a good old pub right? Well, the ones we’ve selected here breathe history like no other. These are the 23 oldest bars of Europe we could find. All were founded before the year 1600. You haven’t truly toured through Europe before you’ve had a beer in all of these amazing pubs. We ranked…
The Belgian beer Westvleteren XII has been awarded as the best beer in the world. It was the second year in a row that this Trappist outranked all other beers in the anual rating by Ratebeer.com. Westvleteren is brewed by monks in a Belgian village that goes by the same name. The Flemish monastery finished…
A Belgian man miraculously escaped from a fine for drinking and driving. The policewoman that pulled him over accidently let his wife blow in the breathalyzer. The incident occurred in the night between Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th of January in the town Edegem. A guy named Patrick van den Kieboom tells his story proudly…
It’s very well possible that alcohol can slow down the breakdown of the human body caused by the muscle disease MS (multiple sclerosis). At least for the ‘relapsing-remitting’ form of the disease. That’s the conclusion Dutch and Belgian researchers draw in the European Journal of Neurology. Besides alcohol the progress of MS would also be…
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