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The Beertrekker Photographer | Ethnographer | Visual Story Teller
"Every B**r Has a Story. Every Story Has a B**r" Every story has a b**r"

The B**rTrekker is a photographic journey about the b**r culture and the people behind them. Over the last 10 years I have been traveling around the world visiting breweries and documenting it with pictures and storytelling. Follow my journey and explore the world of b**rs with me and remember: "Every b**r has a story.

Another trip around the Sun, this is 51!
10/28/2026

Another trip around the Sun, this is 51!

Happy birthday Opa Geuze!Today you would have been 75 years young.We will raise a glass in your honor.Santé!
10/26/2026

Happy birthday Opa Geuze!

Today you would have been 75 years young.

We will raise a glass in your honor.

Santé!

Last week my dear friend Eric Drew suffered a massive stroke. If you know me or have been following my project for some ...
10/04/2026

Last week my dear friend Eric Drew suffered a massive stroke.

If you know me or have been following my project for some time you know that I was a big fan of his b**rs and work of the now closed brewery Michael Weyandt in Oxnard, California where he was a co-founder.

B**rs aside, Eric Eric D. is a dear friend, I’ve known him for over a decade now. He is a family man, and all around good human being. Life can be unpredictable at times, this is one of those times. And he and his family could use the support of the community.

Someone from his community has set up a GoFundMe page to help his family alleviate the financial burden of the long recovery road ahead of them. We all have our situations in our own life, I am aware of this, and if you can help in any way, it would be greatly appreciated by them. Sharing this information is a great start.

If you want to donate, you can find the link in my profile.

Keep your spirits up Eric, looking forward to seeing you again, share a b**r, stories soon.

Love you mate, cheers!

25 years
09/12/2026

25 years

08/10/2026

Happy International B**r Day!

Happy International B**r Day!International B**r Day came and went. I didn’t want to let it pass, and this is the only wa...
08/10/2026

Happy International B**r Day!

International B**r Day came and went. I didn’t want to let it pass, and this is the only way that makes sense to me. Surrounded by bottles, thinking about the people who made them.

Thirteen years of doing this and the lesson never changes. B**r is never really about b**r. It’s about the people who chose something hard, chased it batch after batch, and trusted it to a bottle you might open on the other side of the world. I’ve stood in the cellars. I’ve watched the early morning transfers, the harvests, the cleaning nobody photographs. The romance people imagine is real, but it sits on top of a mountain of labor most drinkers never see.

So this one is for the brewers. For the ones who blend for years before a single Gueuze leaves the door. For the ones building community from scratch where nobody handed them a map. For my friends behind every one of these labels who let me into their world and shared their stories.

What you’re looking at: Okcidenta Argentina, ZalaZ Brasil, Lambiek Fabriek Belgium, Cervecería Quiteña Ecuador, Fermentaria Local Brasil, Ales Agullons Catalunya, Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen Belgium, Brasserie BFM Switzerland, 254 Brewing Co Kenya, Ce***za 7 Vidas Perú, Civil Life Brewing Company Bierstadt Lagerhaus USA, Compañía Cervecera Hércules México, BILA SHAKA Kenya, Budějovický Budvar Czech Republic, Casa Bruja Brewing Co. Panamá. Two photos. Twelve origins. About as international as a table gets.

Thank you for your beautiful creations. I’ll keep documenting and sharing your stories.

Salud!

08/09/2026

First pack of GPK Taste Buds series I’ve ever opened!

Curated by Keith Shore and the first set Topps ever allowed b**r into. Ten cards and one Gold card, random, no guarantee of anyone.

Card ten, right before the gold, was Jester King Brewery That’s my friend Jeffrey Stuffings the one in the barrel. Twelve years we have known each other, now he’s a Garbage Pail Kid.

What brewery would you want to pull?
Tag the friend who’d lose it over this.

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06/26/2026

A special announcement, reaching out to all of my brewery friends and followers to reach a larger audience.

I want to use my reach and network to help in any way I can the people in Venezuela whom are going through a very difficult time. This one hits very close to home for me personally.

Stay tuned for more updates on how we can help.

Thanks!

For a long time, the closest I got to Africa was the music.Back in 2005 I worked at Putumayo World Music in New York Cit...
06/05/2026

For a long time, the closest I got to Africa was the music.

Back in 2005 I worked at Putumayo World Music in New York City, surrounded by the sounds of Mali, Senegal, South Africa and the Ivory Coast, and the artists who made them. I fell hard, and that music is still some of my favorite on earth. Ever since, I have wanted to stand on the continent it came from.

Then in 2013, the year The B**r Trekker began, I had my first African b**r. This exact bottle, a Tusker, at the iconic Brooklyn restaurant called Madiba on June 16, 2013. I didn’t know it then, but it was the start of a thread I’m still pulling on.

On June 7, I land in Nairobi. My first time on the African continent, in the country behind that bottle, Kenya.

Nairobi’s craft b**r scene is thriving, built by people who know exactly what they’re doing. I’m coming to meet them, taste what they’re brewing, and document it the same way I have tried to everywhere my Trekks have taken me.

This photo is from June 16, 2013. On June 16 this year, thirteen years to the day, I’ll be in Nairobi. The circle closes right where it started.

So show me. If you know Nairobi, where do I go, what do I drink, who do I need to meet? Point me in the right direction. I’m all ears, and I can’t wait.

Asante, Kenya. See you in a few days.

Afya!

Diez años. Una década. Felicidades a Xavier, Marlene y todo el equipo de Bee B**r por este hito.Mi conexión con Bee B**r...
05/03/2026

Diez años. Una década. Felicidades a Xavier, Marlene y todo el equipo de Bee B**r por este hito.

Mi conexión con Bee B**r comienza cuando Xavier me contacta por Instagram para invitarme a su local en Chueca. Era 2023, estaba viviendo entre Nueva York y Madrid, y una tarde me aparecí sin saber lo que me esperaba.

Xavier estaba detrás de la barra dándome a probar sus ce***zas una por una mientras yo las iba entendiendo. Entre ce***za y ce***za, empezamos a hablar. Ese día también estaban dos amigos suyos del colegio en Caracas, contemporáneos de mi hermano Apache. Y ahí comenzó una confluencia de historias.

Xavier estudió en La Salle en Caracas, el mismo colegio donde estudié yo. Él era contemporáneo de uno de mis hermanos menores, yo era contemporáneo de dos de sus primos. Sin saberlo, habíamos crecido en los mismos pasillos en La Colina.

Pero ya va, este peo pica y se extiende. Xavier trabajó en Esperanto, una de las tiendas de disco más icónicas de Caracas, entre 1996 y 2004. Yo trabajé entre 2005/06 en Nueva York para el sello disquero Putumayo World Music, quienes tenían presencia exclusiva en Esperanto. Sin saber, la birra y la música nos conectarían.

El 2 de mayo de 2023 Xavier me invitó al Bee B**r de Chueca para su séptimo aniversario. Documente y capture algunos momentos, sin imaginar que tres años después estaría escribiendo este post.

A finales de ese año, en una cata en su local de Debod, apareció uno de sus primos con quien había compartido el colegio en Caracas. No nos habíamos visto desde el bachillerato, unos treinta años atrás. Conocí a su familia y resultó ser amante de las ce***zas también. El mundo es un pañuelo y nosotros somos los mocos.

Como escribió Xavier el año pasado en un artículo: nuestras vidas no son líneas rectas, son ramas que se abren y se reconectan. Dos venezolanos, uno haciendo ce***za en Madrid, otro documentando la cultura cervecera alrededor del mundo, descubriendo que llevaban décadas orbitando en los mismos círculos sin cruzarse.

Por muchos más años, birras e historias. Xavier, Marlene y a tod@s l@s panas de BeeB**r.

Cada Ce***za Tiene Una Historia. Cada Historia Tiene Una Ce***za.

Salud y Gaceta Hípica!

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