Stuff Yer Face, New Brunswick NJ est.1977

Plzen, Czech Republic Nurnberg, Germany Munich, Germany Prague, Czech Republic Brussels, Belgium

Visit this page often to read about the Travels for Beer adventures of Bill Boli and his wife Nina.

Of course, their travels include searching out the best beers of the world, later to be served at Stuff Yer Face!

	Bill and Nina (Monks for the day) at the Jupiter Beer Festival in Florida. Pictured here with Garrett Oliver, Brewmaster of Brooklyn Brewing since 1993, and author of the Brewmaster's Table.
At the Orlando Beer Festival, in front of this poster of Germany, at least we felt like we were in Europe, despite the hot sun and humidity. After a great beer tasting we found the Ravenous Pig Restaurant for a great meal, with a good selection of craft beers. The menu has a couple of items that include beer in the recipe.
June 18, 2009 Sailing around the islands of Puerto Rico Bill and Nina came across a friendly bar in Esperanza. No big beers were found here, but there was an enthusiastic day drinking crowd. The Presidente was ice cold and refreshing!
	December 5, 2009 We played hosts at our home for Christmas Beers and Christmas Cheers. Shown in the photo are samples of the Anchor Holiday brew from 2002-2009 except for the 2005. Christmas was celebrated from around the world that night.
December 19, 2009 Bill and Karsten, our friend from Germany whom we met at the Hofbrauhaus in Munich in 2003, reuniting in Nurnberg with our families. Shown here taking a schnapps break while the girls shop. Schnapps stands are common throughout the Christmas markets in Germany. Frohliche Weichnachten!
	December 19, 2009 Isaiah and I enjoy the perfect pour in Nurnberg. Spalter weisse and dunkel weisse poured with the two inch head...just the way we like it! Spalter Brauhaus is located on the main square and serves delicious German food.
December 25, 2009 Klosterbrau has been brewing beer since 1533 in Bamberg, Germany. We think they have the recipe and process perfected. This is homey-feeling pub is one of our favorite stops in all of Europe with terrific lager style beers, from gold to orange to brown in color. No matter which beer we choose, their authentic, homestyle, German cooking makes us keep coming back for more. Get ready to meet and share your stories with the locals.
	December 25, 2009 Nina is pictured here at Zum Sternla, Bamberg's oldest pub/tavern. She's contemplating her Hoppendorfer Heller Bock, a golden colored bock beer served in a small glass. What food best goes with this? A crispy skinned pork fillet with potatoes of course!
December 27, 2009 A small brewery in Innsbruck, Austria the Theresien Brau was our lunch stop. Good fresh beer, good food. As the coaster says.. Eating - Drinking - Good Times!
	December 30, 2009 There we were. Vienna, Austria... a Mozart concert... and Bill Boli is wearing a Stuff Yer Face logo vest. The famous logo gets noticed by a fan of New Brunswick and SYF. It was great to meet Kayur and chat about stromboli, beer, and travel! Oh, and Mozart was good too.
December 30, 2009 7 Stern Brau (7 Star Brewery) in Vienna, Austria. They had a wide selection of house brews and a full menu, it felt like an American style bar. The beers were good and well poured, it was a busy place.
	January 2, 2010 Taking a break from the snow at the Innstadt Brewery in Passau, Germany. This is a large brew pub with an extensive food menu of traditional German food. Shown here is their Bock Weisse beer which was superb. Be ready to share a table and tell a story with fellow tourists or if you're lucky, a local.
March 20, 2010 Ybor City, home of Tampa Bay Brewing Company We were on a Tampa Beer Safari with Bon Beer Voyage, a fun tour group company focused on beer travel. We personally met Brewmaster David Doble and tasted his beers and learned of his brewing process. Thanks to BBV we got a behind the scenes look and tasted David's favorites. click for more info on Bon Beer Voyage trips
	April 6, 2010 Kickback's located in Jacksonville, Florida has a terrific selection of bottle beer, and a fine group on tap. There's a full kitchen here also, so it's the best of both worlds. Check their website because they do beer dinners. When we were here we were lucky they had St. Bernardus Christmas and St. Feuillien Christmas, on draft!
April 17, 2010 Can you find Trappist Chimay beer in Key West? We did! And, actually ala Key West style, it was outback under the stars at Virgilio's Martini Bar with live Jazz and...where others might reach for your beer!
	April 17, 2010 Every year we stop searching for beer for just an hour and run the 7 mile bridge in Marathon Key, Florida. It's a well run race for local charities with limited entrants. The best part of the race is that they serve fresh draft beer at the finish line....Michelob Ultra, but hey, we're atheletes concerned about our carb intake!
June 12, 2010 Here's a picture of Bell-In-Hand, Boston. America's oldest, continuously, operating tavern. Located in the historic area it's been in operation since 1795! Not a great beer or food stop but it is worth your time for a quick one.
	June 11, 2010 How about this label? Clown Shoes, Black IPA, "Hoppy Feet" brewed in Ipswich, Massachusettes by Mercury Brewing Company. We had dinner at Eastern Standard restaurant in Boston and found this beer on their beer menu. Good food, good service, and a fine selection of beers to match.
June 26, 2010 500 people showed up this year with their bicycles for the annual Tour de Bar. An unofficial, unsupervised event where the bikes are decorated and the riders in costume. Ten unofficial stops were made this year and no one officially had any drinks. Despite the heat we seemed to enjoy the day!
	July 9, 2010 McCormick & Schmicks Seafood Restaurant in West Palm Beach held a beer tasting dinner featuring the beers of Dogfish Head Brewing from Delaware. Shown here is the Costa Rican Tuna Ceviche paired with the 60 Minute IPA. The hoppiness of the beer complimented the creaminess of the coconut perfectly. Other beers featured were the Raison d'Etre, Festine Peche, 90 minute IPA, and Midas Touch with dessert. The four seafood courses were superb and well matched with the beers.
July 11, 2010 The perfect place to watch the World Cup Final. The Blue Anchor Pub in Delray Beach, Florida. Good beer, good grub, and an international clientele. The bartender is always rooting for the winner.
	July 21, 2010 Nina & Bill are pictured here with our friends from Bon Beer Voyage and Alliance Francophone of Palm Beaches. Twenty six participants got together to celebrate Belgian National Holiday, independence day for Belgium from the Dutch on this day in 1831. A review of Bill's book Travels for Beer was given and a beer tasting followed. Six different Belgian beer styles were sampled including St. Bernardus wit, Saison Dupont, Duvel golden ale, Chimay Bleue, Westmalle Tripel, and St. Louis Framboise.

Trappist beers are regarded as the best tasting beers of the world. They are brewed by Monks in only seven places within Belgium and the Netherlands. The name Trappist originates over 900 years ago from the monks of the Cistercian order of Normandy, France. There are three conditions that must be met to use the name Trappist on a bottle of beer; first, the beer must be brewed within a Trappist Abbey, second, the beer must be brewed under the supervision and responsibility of the monks, and third, the majority of the revenue produced must be dedicated to charitble work.

Seven beers can legally use the name Trappist and apply the special logo to the bottles. They include Achel, Chimay, Orval, Rochefort, Westmalle, and Westvleteren, all located in Belgium, and located in the Netherlands is La Trappe. In the USA La Trappe uses the name Koningshoeven.

These beers range in color from gold to dark mahogany, and are high in flavor and in alcohol. They are tough to find locally, but if you do give them a taste! Stuff Yer Face offers three beers from Chimay and two from Westmalle.

During our Travels for Beer, Nina and I have traveled to 5 of the 7 Trappist Abbeys. In the Spring of 2009 we look forward to completing our tour. Lucky us!

is located in the Northeast corner of Belgium. From Antwerp, we took a train, then a bus, and then we walked 3miles through the countryside to the Abbey. It was worth the effort to be able to taste their two beers on tap. We arrived just one hour before closing but plenty of time for some cheese and tastings. A gold and brown version were available from the tap, both delicious and tempting for more. The beers on tap are much different from the bottle variety sold in stores because of refermentation in the bottle. The abbey has an outdoor and indoor cafe area with simple food selections. The highlight of the visit was Nina's chance meeting with one of the Monks, who seemed to be celebrating a birthday with family and friends. We were able to share a photo with him, but no chance of sharing a beer.

is located just a short local bus ride from Antwerp towards the Northeast. The Westmalle beers have always been favorites of ours...the dubbel which is brown and frothy with hints of dried fruit and the triple which is gold in color with a brilliant white head, and tastes of bread and spice. Only two beers are brewed here. The Abbey has no attached pub, but across the street from the abbey entrance is a cafe dedicated to good food and the abbey beers. As the photo on the left below shows, that cafe was under some renovations when we arrived! How disappointing to us. But we were able to walk the peaceful grounds surrounding the abbey and dream of the food and beer that the cafe must offer. Some locals promised us the cafe would open again shortly. We walked a short distance and located another cafe to enjoy the great beers of Westmalle.

is located in the south of Belgium, fairly remote from any major city. We rented a car in Namur, and drove about 1 1/2 hours. The immediate area of the abbey is very pastoral. A highlight when approaching the city of Chimay was a large brass brewing kettle sitting in the middle of a traffic circle. Chimay brews three beers for the public, the red, white, and blue labels, with alcohol percentages of 7%, 8%, & 9%. They also brew a green label, lower in alcohol, for the Monk's own consumption. The red & blue have deep flavorings of dried fruit, & the white is spicy and yeasty. There is no pub located at the abbey, but they do allow you to walk the quiet gardens. Nearby are two pubs that can satisfy your thirst. We found the food to be excellent in both, and the beer could not get any fresher. The low prices will surprise you and entice you, along with the friendly service.

is located in the Southwest corner of Belgium near the city of Watou. Their beers are the most difficult to locate in the USA. The Monks will only sell from their "drive-thru bank" like setup and request that the beers not be resold. There is a cafe across the street which is allowed to sell their beers and cheeses. On our visit the blonde and bruin 12 versions were being poured. The blonde was a very yellow gold color which had an almost grassy taste, and the taste of the bruin 12 lived up to its worldly reputation of best tasting. We arrived via a local bus which you need to schedule for your pick-ups and drop-offs. Arriving was no problem, but after tasting the beers and lunching on the Monk produced cheese, meeting our bus for departure was more difficult. From our cafe seats we watched across the farm fields our bus arrive on time and depart without us! No problem, let's have another best beer of the world...we'll worry about getting back to the hotel later. At just about that moment, our hotel desk clerk showed up with his friends and noticed us. He offered us a ride back to town, but only after he enjoyed some of the beer.

is located in the Southeast corner of the Netherlands, very close to the Belgian border. We based ourselves in the city of Eindhoven. Our day began early in Amsterdam, and after checking in to our hotel, we took a local train and a local bus to get to the Abbey. We unknowingly jumped off the bus a couple of stops early which left us a mile walk. We finally reached the abbey just one hour before their cafe closed. The staff was very friendly and told us not to rush. Good thing, because they had four beers to taste; the blonde, double, triple, and quadruple all freshly poured from the tap. Beyond the closing hour, the brewmaster showed up for a beer and we were able to speak with him over a couple of beers. He invited us back the next day for a tour of the brewery! So, that we did. Within the walls of the abbey we could smell the malt and hear the prayer. Great beers here. Find them in the USA under the name Koningshoeven.