Travel tips, best places to visit, guided tours in Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg

BENELUX Guide: best of Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg

Benelux tastes: Beer Bread and Cheese Festival in Belgian Durbuy

On a journey to Benelux, one cannot miss the opportunity of experiencing the local specialities of foods and drinks. Belgium offers one of the most unforgettable tasting experiences of all. If you travel to Benelux in September, make sure to visit the Belgian town of Durbuy to discover regional food products: beer, bread and cheeses during a sampling trail, all weekend long. More »

Belgian beers

Each Belgian town has its own flavor and shape! It is a flavor or the locally brewed beer and the special shape of a beer glass! There’s hardly a single town in Belgium where they would NOT brew they own beer by a unique formula. Same goes for design: Belgian beer glasses are unique and you will never be offered a beer in a pub tapped into a glass of another beer brand! More »

Beer types and beer tours

Trappist Beers

Among the dozen or so surviving abbey breweries in Europe, six are Trappist and located in Belgium, all established in their present form by Trappists who left France after the turbulence of the Napoleonic period. Rich dark ales produced solely by monks according to centuries-old methods in the six following monasteries; Chimay, Orval, Rochefort, Westmalle, Westvleteren and Achel. More »