WE MADE A ZINE!
Join me for the launch of Pintjes on December 11 in Brussels
I know, I know, it’s been quiet here. Looking back at the most recent missive from this newsletter - and Brussels Beer City in general - at the tailend of 2023, I see I committed to posting more regularly through to this autumn. Well, any attentive readers will know that didn’t happen.
I’ll elaborate more on the reasons for that another time, but suffice to say I’ve discovered you can’t renovate your house, have a job, manage a household with two children, launch a weekly newsletter, and run a blog without one of those activities suffering. In 2024 it was the blog which suffered - but writing as I am from a nearly-finished kitchen, I’m optimistic Brussels Beer City as a blog will come roaring back!
In any case, if you’ve wanted to read more from me than you’ve probably already found your way to my Brussels Notes newsletter. And, before the year ends, I have a little announcement: Brussels Beer City has collaborated with my friend Louise (AKA Selkies) on the publication of its first zine!
We called it Pintjes.
And what is Pintjes? It’s a limited-run zine about our favourite Brussels cafês, focusing each time on a different location or area in Brussels, and featuring a series of pub vignettes by me and excellent illustrations by Louise.
Vol.1 will focus on downtown Brussels, the (approximate) site of the city’s founding, and the neighbourhood that’s home to some of our favourite boozers, which also happen to be among the best in the whole city.
It’s also where we’re going to host the launch event for Pintjes Vol.1.
When: 11 December, 19.30
Where: Lord Byron, Kartuizersstraat 8, 1000 Brussel, België
What: Zine launch + extremely limited sales of prints of a selection of the illustrations in Vol.1 + drinks at Brussels’ best Belgo-Greek bar (Thanks Luca)
To whet your appetite, get on over to Brussels Notes for a sneak preview of Pintjes Vol.1, to give you a sense of where it’s coming from, and where we hope it will go.