Lowlander Returns With Botanical Brew Kitchen Pop Ups
Amsterdam, June 2018 - Lowlander Beer continues its travelling series of Botanical Brew Kitchen pop ups, starting July in the greenhouses of the “Oude Hortus” [...]
Kettle To Still Captured – How Lowlander IPA Genever Is Made
Beer to genever: together with Wynand Fockink we have launched the world's first IPA genever! In the 17th century, when ships full of exotic herbs [...]
Lowlander Beer is Crossing Borders and Seas
Amsterdam, May 2018 – Amsterdam based botanical brewer Lowlander Beer sets sail to open-up the minds (and palates) of like-minded explorers across Europe and beyond. After [...]
Lowlander Beer meets I Amsterdam
Het biermerk Lowlander Beer bestond nog maar 4 maanden toen het al meerdere prijzen in de wacht sleepte in een grote internationale wedstrijd, voor smaak [...]
The Quest For The Perfect Ginger Beer
This is not a blog post but more of an apology….an apology to the next person who has the misfortune of asking me If I [...]
King’s Day Concoction – Royal Botanical Negroni
One more day, and the Lowlands turns into one big party: it's King's Day! This King's Day concoction is an ode to our royal family [...]
Lowlander Beer Launches The World’s First IPA Genever
Amsterdam, April 2018 – Botanical brewer Lowlander Beer made a long cherished dream come true: end of May they will launch a genever distilled from [...]
Wynand Fockink & Lowlander Beer Lanceren Allereerste IPA Jenever
Amsterdam, april 2018 – Distilleerderij Wynand Fockink en brouwerij Lowlander Beer laten een langgekoesterde droom uitkomen: samen brengen zij eind mei een jenever op de markt, onder [...]
Botanische Lowlander Beer proeverij in Hortus Botanicus
Op 19 april neemt Lowlander Beer je mee in de wereld van botanisch brouwen tijdens een bijzondere“Op Tafel” proeverij in de Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam. Samen [...]
Navigating Flavour – The Lowlander Wheel of Flavour
We often get asked the question what comes first. Is it the story of the Lowlanders and their trade and travel adventures? Or is it [...]
Lowlander I.P.A. Wins Best Label Design Of The Lowlands
Nowadays bottle shops are bursting with the most beautiful beer bottle labels in a variety of shapes and sizes, all fighting for consumers attention. Dutch [...]
Brewing With Botanicals – How It All Started
A word from our Chief Botanical Officer While working in a gin distillery in the United Kingdom I fell in love with the use of [...]
Brewing With Botanicals Is The Future – Part 2
Botanical brewing is the future What comes to mind when you think of spices such as ginger and cinnamon? Or botanicals like elderflower? Perhaps not [...]
The History Of The Beer Tap Handle
What is the first thing you do when you sit down at a bar? Probably it is scanning what’s on tap and look for something [...]
Y is for…..
A special shout out to our super star intern Yochanan. And to Yvonne, Yara, Yoel, Yanis, Yann, Yasmin, Yvette, Yona, Yolanda and everyone else who’s [...]
Xpedition Lowlander
Strolling around the historical centre of Amsterdam, if you look carefully, you will be able to discover some really intriguing stories and facts on each [...]
W is for Winning at World Beer Awards
The World Beer Awards are considered to be one of the most highly regarded beer competitions in, well this is easy, the world. Beer competitions [...]
Thank You Una
Setting up your own business with just a credit card in your back pocket is not easy. Having worked in gin and spirits we’ve learned [...]
T is for Team
From the start of this year we went from one Lowlander to a team of six. Our diverse backgrounds as brewers, bartenders, distillers and foodies both [...]
S is for Speculaas
Speculaas is undoubtedly one of our most used words and eaten cookies over the past few months. The initial idea was to brew a beer [...]
Restaurant dream – Botanical Brew Kitchen
So here we want to share one of our dreams with you. Based on our experience with hosting intimate dinners and the response of those who [...]
Q is for Quirky
At the start of Lowlander Beer, when we were researching recipes and looking at ship logs to retrace what might have come back to the [...]
Partners & partnerships
We often get the question how we got to where we are today in such a short period of time. There’s only one answer: our [...]
O is for Out & About
As a team we love to be out and about selling and sipping our Lowlander beers. This year you might have spotted our Botanical Brew [...]
Negroni, Botanical Negroni
At Lowlander Beer we have always been close to distillers and mixologists and we like to explore the boundaries of what you can do with [...]
M is for Michel
Once we had developed our very first recipes back in 2015 we started looking for a brewing partner who could help us brew the first [...]
Lowlander – What’s in a name
No less than 152 (!) optional names were written down by our founder Frederik before he decided on Lowlander as the right name for our [...]
K is for Kopstoot
The ‘kopstoot’ (kɔpstot) - or “head butt” in English - is the most sophisticated way of enjoying a shot and a beer. This Dutch century [...]