Travel Resources

You’ll find links to good resources throughout this website. Here is a summary of some of the most useful:

Travel:

Tourist offices:
http://visitbelgium.com/index.html and http://www.visitflanders.us/index.php?page=library

Travel guide:
http://lonelyplanet.com/belgium

Beer Tours:
http://www.belgianbeerme.com/ and http:/www/bier-mania.com/index_files/tours.htm

Map of quality cafes in Belgium:
http://www.beerpubmap.be

Site of Confederation of Belgian Brewers (list of breweries you can visit)
http://www.beerparadise.be

It is a fact that Don and Wendy (Vanberg & DeWulf’s founders) were the first Americans ever inducted into the Belgian Brewers’ Guild!

Site of the French Brewers’ organization with plenty of good tourism and gastronomy information:
http://www.brasseurs-de-france.com/?#/contact/

Site of some of Belgium’s family run breweries: http://www.belgianfamilybrewers.be/site/index.php?l=en

Travel guide from Frommer’s -  often with Belgian deals: http://www.budgettravel.com

Belgian city beer guides: http://www.podgebeer.co.uk/

Belgian Beer Enthusiast Sites:

Benelux Bier Guide from Peter Crombecq http://www.dma.be/p/bier/beer.htm

International community of Belgian beer lovers, started by our friend Steve Gale: http://www.babblebelt.com.
Within the babblebelt you’ll find a beer pronunciation guide featuring the voice of Don Feinberg
http://belgianstyle.com/mmguide/pronouce/speak.html

The not so secret society of better beer drinkers with a strong contingent of Belgian beer enthusiasts: http://aleuminati.ning.com/group/belgianbeerluv

Jay has a special interest in Belgian beers: http://hedonistbeerjive.blogspot.com/

A blogger who covers the specialty beer and food scene well: http://www.barleydine.blogspot.com/

Facebook site of 13,000 Belgian beer fans: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Belgian-Beer/23611948664?v=wall&viewas=644664733#/pages/Belgian-Beer/23611948664?v=wall&viewas=644664733

Beer and Food:

Stage Left is a restaurant with great Belgian beer tradition. Co-owner Mark Pascal has been an enthusiast and proselytizer since the 19080's. Here is a link to his much praised New Brunswick, NJ restaurant, Stage Left www.StageLeft.com

If you like to cook with beer you will find this Dutch chef and cooking with beer enthusiast's compendium of over 500 recipes a treasure trove: www.biercuisine.nl

We are delighted to introduce you to "de beste foodblog van vlaanderen", Blogger Inge Dries likely journal is a delight. You'll find some excellent resources on where to eat in Belgium, especially her native (and we think too little appreciated Limburg Province) as well as elsewhere: http:/culinair-atelier.skynetblogs.be

Your go to destination for the very best waffles - from the inventors of the Brussels style waffle - even though they are in Ghent. Utterly enchanting space and deadly serious intentions about perfecting this most Belgian of treats http://www.etablissementmax.be/

A comprehensive site about pairing beer and food created by full-on beer geek Joshua Lepley http://www.barleydine.com/