Belgian Beer, Trappist Beer, Rauchbier (Smoke Beer or Smoked Beer) from Bamberg, Craft Beer from the USA and Canada, and Real Ale from the UK, and other types of Speciality Beer (Specialty Beer) are promoted on this, the White Beer Travels website. But what's in a name, the site's name that is? All is revealed below Click on this bottle of Schneider Weisse, to see that it has travelled to Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, in Spain's Canary Islands. The photo, by Joyce White, features John White and White Beer Travels Beer Hunt regular, Dr Eric Clow, in the Mesón Andalucia, in May, 2004 Belgian Beer, well Speciality Beer (Specialty Beer) from Belgium, such as Trappist Beer, Rauchbier from Germany and Craft Beer from the USA and Canada, Real Ale from the UK, and other Speciality Beers (Specialty Beers) are all covered on John White's "White Beer Travels" website, which you are on the Home page of
Belgian Beer, German Beer, British Real Ale, North American Craft Beer and Speciality Beer (Specialty Beer) from around the world, are all covered in this White Beer Travels website This White Beer Travels website has been in operation since the 24th of March, 2002. It promotes Speciality/Specialty Beer/Craft Beer from around the world: Belgian Beer such as Trappist Beer; German Beer such as Rauchbier; Craft Beer from the USA and Canada; Real Ale from the UK; etc
 
You are currently on this, the "Home" Page of the "White Beer Travels" website. Belgian Beer and other Speciality Beer (Specialty Beer) from around the world is promoted on this site Click here for Speciality Beer (Specialty Beer) and Brewery News. Also check out the "Archives" for "Old" News!Click here to find details of Beer Hunts that you can joinClick here to get information on "Past Beer Hunts" organised by "White Beer Travels"Click here for information on what to expect on a typical Beer Hunt organised by 'White Beer Travels', including answers to the important questions: 'Why go on a Group Beer Hunt?' and 'Why go on a White Beer Travels Group Beer Hunt?' Click here for the current White Beer Travels "Pub of the Month". See the "Archives" page for links to the other onesClick here for John White's Beer CV (Curriculum Vitae, Résumé) Click here for past Pubs of the Month, News, etcClick here for downloadable guides to places, breweries and barsClick here for "Links" to other websites. There are many on the other pages of the site, as well!Click here for full details on how to contact White Beer TravelsClick here for information on how the site was built, including acknowledgement of any help receivedClick here for details of the French to English Translation Service offered by White Beer Travels, & for the contact details of organisations that can provide the reverse
Belgian Beer, such as Trappist Beer, and other great Speciality/Specialty Beer/Craft Beers, these including Real Ale from the UK and Craft Beers from the USA and Canada, are promoted on this, the White Beer Travels website. It is a big site, so to get an outline idea of the contents, click here to go to the site's Contents page
  Würzburg, in Germany, is world-renowned for its "Franken" wines. However, White (Wheat) Beers have certainly travelled to the city. The three different ones shown here are excellent examples. All are brewed in the city's Würzburger Hofbräu Brewery. Click on the glasses to go to the brewery's website, from which the image was pasted
 
Your cursor is on a photo of the world's most famous beer writer, Michael Jackson, with John White, of White Beer Travels
Your cursor is on a photo featuring John White, of White Beer Travels, with Pierre Celis, from Hoegaarden, in Belgium; Pierre is the 'King of White Beer'. Click on it, to go to a White Beer Travels Web page featuring Pierre

Michael Jackson with John White

Pierre Celis with John White

This is yours truly, John White's "White Beer Travels" website, which is dedicated jointly to "The Beer Hunter", "The Maven of Malt", Michael Jackson (1942-) and Belgian Pierre Celis (1925-), the King of Belgian White/Wheat Beer. Michael's classic books got me drinking and loving Speciality/Specialty Beer/Craft Beer, and made me aware that there were wonderful characters involved in the production of these beers, such as Pierre Celis.

Michael's website, www.beerhunter.com (Bookmark), is a superb source of information on the very best in the Speciality/Specialty Beer/Craft Beer world. I hope that Michael has not patented the words "Beer Hunt", as well as "Beer Hunter®"! Pierre Celis's famous Wheat/White Beer has made Travels all over the globe, largely because of Michael's high profile promotion of it and other Specialty Beers, such as the Belgian and Dutch Beers brewed by Trappist Monks. Given my surname, the title of my Beer Hunt website was not too difficult to come up with.

In the above photo, I am sitting next to Michael at the British Guild of Beer Writers' annual dinner, in London, in December, 2006. The photo was taken by Rob Judges (www.robjudges.com). Michael's tie has tankards of beer from the Forst Brewery (www.forst.it), in Forst/Algund, in Alto Adige/Südtirol, a German-speaking part of the country. They are renowned for a beer named after Saintt Sixtus, Forst Sixtus, which, of course, should not be confused with the beers from the St.-Sixtus Trappist Monastery, in Westvleteren, in Belgium (White Beer Travels Web page). Michael was the first Chairman of the British Guild of Beer Writers (www.beerwriters.co.uk, Bookmark), and I am currently a member of the Guild's committee, and its trip organiser.

 
The above photo was taken by renowned beer writer, Roger Protz, see below, in May, 2006. In it, I am with Pierre Celis, from Hoegaarden, in Belgium, the town that Hoegaardier, Pierre made famous for its White Beer. The photo was taken in front of the "Roerkuip" (Dutch for Mash Tun) that Pierre used to produce his first commercial White Beer, in 1966. It was installed in a cowshed (koestal) across from his house, and this is where it remains to this day. I organised the meeting in Hoegaarden with Pierre for Roger and myself.

Pierre Celis, is perhaps the most famous name in Belgian Beer. At the forerunner to his De Kluis brewery in Hoegaarden, he created the famous Hoegaarden Wit Bier, which is White Beer or Wheat Beer in English, see below. After the take-over of De Kluis by Interbrew (now InBev), Pierre emigrated to the USA, to set up a brewery in Austin, Texas. There, he produced the top-class Celis White. Interbrew desecrated his Hoegaarden White Beer by introducing high-gravity brewing, reducing lagering (secondary fermentation) time, and changing the recipe (removing the Oats from the mash and replacing the Hops from The Czech Republic), and in November, 2005, that load of Bankers, InBev, announced the closure of the brewery, moving production of Hoegaarden to Jupille-sur-Meuse, near Liège, in the French-speaking Belgium (clearly, it should now be called "Jupille Blanche"). Pierre chose Austin, since it has similar water to that in Hoegaarden. On leaving Austin, to return to Belgium, Pierre had this beer brewed for him by Bios/Van Steenberge (www.vansteenberge.com), in Ertvelde, near Ghent. Clearly Pierre has made some beer travels, and as the creator of the ubiquitous Hoegaarden brand of White Beer, is a most fitting person to be on the Home page of the White Beer Travels website.

For further information on Pierre, click here to go to the White Beer Travels Web page that features this great man.

John White's "White Beer Travels" Website

The above preamble is just an example of what this website covers: places featuring beer that is special, such as Prague and České Budějovice (Budweis in German) in The Czech Republic, Mechelen, in Belgium, Montreal, in Canada, and Singapore, in SE Asia, in Web pages that go from A to Z (from Aalst to Zoigl). The beer in question is often called Speciality Beer, or, in the USA, Craft Beer or Specialty Beer. There is barrels of information on such beer and on very special bars where it is available, click here for an example, which links to others. Breweries that produce great beers, such as Cantillon, in Brussels, in Belgium, and the Orval Trappist Monastery, also in Belgium, have dedicated pages.

White Beer Travels is a site brewed up by Speciality Beer fan, John White (1945-), an Englishman who has organised and run Beer Hunts in Europe, the United States, and beyond, since 1993, when a group of White Beer Travels Beer Hunters went in search of Belgian Beer for the first time. Past and Future White Beer Travels Beer Hunts are described and Background Information on these is provided, including answers to the important questions: "Why go on a Group Beer Hunt?; and "Why go on a White Beer Travels Group Beer Hunt?' Details of the White Beer Travels French to English Translation Service (Service de Traduction de français en anglais) are also provided. The English-language pages of the website for the Bruxellensis Beer Festival, www.festivalbruxellensis.be (Bookmark), that takes place in Brussels, are an example of the French to English translation work that have been undertaken. Cliquez un résumé en français de cette page d'accueil. There is an e-mail contact link for White Beer Travels at the top of the page; click here for further contact details. White Beer Travels endeavours to answer all legitimate e-mail queries on Specialty Beer. Should you consider that the answer to your query would be of interest to others, why not post it on the White Beer Travels blog site, www.whitebeertravels.blogspot.com.

White Beer Travels Beer Hunts are recommended by
world-renowned beer writer, Roger Protz, and endorsed by members of the British Guild of Beer Writers

Your cursor is on a photo taken within the Abdij Onze Lieve Vrouw van Koningshoeven (Our Lady of Koningshoeven Abbey (Notre Dame Abbey, Koningshoeven)), a Trappist Monastery, in Berkel-Enschot, near Tilburg, in the Dutch Province of North Brabant (Noord-Brabant). Click on it to go to the Monastery's website

The above photo was taken by Roger Protz, in January, 2006. In it, John White, is with the Abbot of a Trappist Monastery, in The Netherlands.

In the UK national newspaper, the Independent on Sunday (www.independent.co.uk), on the 16th of January, 2005, in an article by Richard Ehrlich, entitled "The beer hunter", Richard quotes Roger Protz (1939-) (www.beer-pages.com, Bookmark), as follows: " ... my eminent colleague Roger Protz, author of the magisterial Complete Guide to World Beer (£19.99, Carlton), recommends the beer hunts organised by John White (www.whitebeertravels.com)." Roger's book can be purchased from Amazon, see below. After being one of the Beer Hunters on a White Beer Travels trip to Bamberg and Nuremberg (for details, click here), Roger wrote "Thanks for a brilliant trip -- best ever".

Dom Bernardus Peeters, who is on the right, in the photo to the left, is the Abbot of the Abdij O.L.V. van Koningshoeven, in Berkel-Enschot, near Tilburg, in the Dutch Province of North Brabant. Within the walls of this Monastery, is De Koningshoeven Trappist Brewery (www.latrappe.nl). John White, of White Beer Travels, organised the visit to the monastery and its brewery, which is fully covered in a White Beer Travels Web page.

Following a White Beer Travels Beer Hunt organised for the British Guild of Beer Writers, written comments received included: "Thanks for all your wonderful work last week. It was a great trip.", from CAMRA HQ's Iain Loe; "The whole trip was excellent. Well organised.", from Tim Webb, of Good Beer Guide Belgium fame (www.booksaboutbeer.com (Bookmark) and White Beer Travels Web page); and " ... it was an excellent trip. Many thanks to you and Joyce for a thoroughly professional, informative and fun visit - we will have to go again.", from Chris Marchbanks, brewing and beer technologist. Click here for information on the trip that they are referring to.

 

On the Downloads page of the site, comprehensive White Beer Travels Speciality Beer guides/eBooks are available, such as: a sixty-eight page one to Brussels: or the fifty-three page one covering Amsterdam; or the seventy-seven page Bamberg one; or the eighty-three page one for London. These can be purchased using PayPal®/Credit Card, or by using a UK sterling cheque. However, a number of the guides are free-of-charge.

 

A number of books are featured on the site. For the purchase of these (and CDs, DVDs, etc), White Beer Travels recommends amazon.co.uk and amazon.com, who can be reached by clicking on the buttons to the right. Note that both sites can be used by UK residents, the US-based amazon.com having items that are not available on the other site, and vice versa.

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Should you want to arrange your own travel to Belgium (or to Lille or Paris), White Beer Travels recommends "Driveline Great Getaways". They provide excellent value accommodation, in conjunction with travel on the Eurostar train from London. Click on the banner to book on-line, or for more information.
Click here to go to the "Contents" page of the "White Beer Travels" website. This provides direct access to the one hundred and six or so pages which make up the site, along with a brief description of them. It is, thus, essentially, the White Beer Travels Site Map

 

For more introductory information please click here. At any time, click "Home" to return to the Home page. A series of links to the main pages of the site are provided at the top and the bottom of each page. Clicking on the button to the left takes one to the Contents page of the site, or its Site Map. This has links to all the White Beer Travels website's one hundred and six separate pages (over 650 pages of A4/letter when printed). On this page, it will be seen that the good as well as the bad (for example, GM Beer) is covered. The complete site or the whole of the World Wide Web can be searched using the Google facility provided at the bottom of this page, and on the Contents page.

Your cursor is on a photo taken in Nellies (The White Horse), Beverley, East Yorkshire, England. Samuel Smith's Old Brewery Bitter, the Real Ale being handpumped in it, is one of the cheapest beers in England, as well as being one of the best. Click on the photo to go to the Nellies website

The above photo was taken in Nellies, in Beverley, by John White, in March, 2002. Beverley is not too far from where John lives, in Grimsby, Lincolnshire. Nellies is the nearest world-class pub to Grimsby; it is an entry in The CAMRA National Inventory. Pub Interiors of Outstanding Historic Interest (NI) (www.heritagepubs.org.uk).

 

White Beer that Travels?

Wheat Beer, particularly common in Belgium and Germany, is one of many types of beer that are enjoyed on White Beer Travels Beer Hunts. Often cloudy, such a beer is, in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, called a Wit Bier, a Bière Blanche, in Wallonia, the French-speaking part, and, in Germany, a Weizen (Wheat) or a Weissbier (Weißbier) (White Beer), or simply a Weisse. Indeed, the guardian of the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) (www.oed.com), informs one that "Wheat" is derived from an old Teutonic/Germanic word meaning " White".

The most famous Wheat Beers are meant to be cloudy, from the top to the bottom of the glass. Therefore, after returning home with a bottle, from your local beer shop or wherever, if its temperature is OK, one can pour a Wheat Beer and drink it immediately, unlike other unfiltered beers, which need time to settle: White Beer travels well!

White Beer certainly Travels to Beverley, in East Yorkshire, England, In the photo to the left, then landlady, Pam Elliot, of the life-enhancing Nellies (The White Horse) (5 Hengate, tel 01842 861973, www.nellies.co.uk, GPS: 53.844527o N, 0.432068o W), in Beverley, is pulling a pint of Samuel Smith Old Brewery Bitter from one of an impressive array of wooden casks in the cellar (£1.33 in June, 2007). Alongside the handpump for this Real Ale (Cask Ale) is a font for Ayinger Hefe-Weisse (Yeast-White) (www.ayinger-bier.de), which originates from Bavaria, but is actually brewed under licence by Samuel Smith, in Tadcaster, Yorkshire. The Grade II* listed Nellies is a multi-roomed, gaslight-lit, coal fire-heated, stone-floored gem. The outstanding Nellies website was created by Nellies regular, Mark Elvidge; note the ghost on its History page.

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Belgian Beer, such as Trappist Beer, which is just about the world's most renowned Speciality Beer (Specialty Beer, Craft Beer), is promoted on this website, along with great beer from all over the world
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Schneider Weisse, a well-travelled, classic Wheat/White Beer, brewed in Bavaria (Bayern), in Germany (Deutschland), by Schneider. Click on the glass to go to their website Click on this bottle of Schneider Weisse, to see that this White Beer has travelled to Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, in Spain's Canary Islands. The photo, by Joyce White, features John White and White Beer Travels Beer Hunt regular, Dr Eric Clow, in the Mesón Andalucia, in May, 2004