IkPas is a Dutch campaign that encourages people to refrain from drinking alcohol, especially during the month of January. Internationally, the campaign is known as Dry January. The IkPas campaign was launched in 2014 as a national initiative of the...
The Oktoberfest is an annual folk festival in Munich. It is considered the largest beer festival and folk festival in the world and is visited by more than five million people annually. The 188th Oktoberfest was held from September 16 to 3...
The 'beer blog' following '150 years of Heineken' is prompted by the following current beer events: German Beer Day (April 23), Canon of Dutch Beer Culture (online from April 28), Dutch Beer Week (May 11 - 14) and...
It has turned into an anniversary blog once again, and this time about our national pride: Heineken. On a terrace, I was served a Heineken coaster with the text 'EST. 1873' with my beer. But in 2014, there was already a special sheet with...
Who makes New Year's resolutions? And how long do you manage to stop doing 'something'? At the start of 2022, we are speaking out in favor of a healthy lifestyle: more fruit and vegetables, more exercise...
2020 is the year of the coronavirus. 2021 is the year of the coronavirus vaccine. We look back with the key moments and actors of the corona crisis in the Netherlands in 2020. I follow a chronological timeline from December 2019 up to and...
In the 19th corona blog, I received a tip to write about 'drinks on the terrace'. Many thanks, Piet! I will broaden the topic to food and drink on terraces and in restaurants. Did you sit on the terrace on Tweede...
For the 85th time, the CPNB is organizing the Book Week with the theme 'Rebels and Mavericks'. This theme, featuring writers Annejet van der Zijl (Book Week gift) and Özcan Akyol (Book Week essay), certainly caused a great deal of commotion, especially regarding the latter writer, before the Book Week...
On January 29, the first stamp issues from Belgium were released. These concern the following issues: Winning Belgium: Diamond Sector, 60 Smurf Years, and Belgian Beer Culture – Sparkling Heritage. In the theme series 'Winning Belgium', bpost in 2018 highlights the various facets of the...
Last week, the Week of Dutch Beer started. There are approximately 487 breweries in the Netherlands. No fewer than 106 breweries are participating in the Dutch Brewery Days 2017. The breweries open their breweries and tasting rooms to the public. They organize brewing demonstrations,...
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