each July in Antwerp, organized by Beer passion magazine, The Modeste Bier Festival held the 1st Weekend of Oct in Antwerp, Run by Antwerps Bier College. The Christmas beer festival Essen Alvinne Craft Beer Festival, at Picobrouwerij Alvinne, Zwevegem (Moen) "La Géroublonnade", beer and gourmet event in a village in , region of southern Belgium, during second Sunday of July. The Weekend of Belgian Beers, held in Hasselt in November, organized by the Limburgse Biervrienden The Weekend of Special Beer in Sohier in February – all informations : http://Www.sohier-village.be Since 2017 Billie's Bier Kafétaria and Hop is Hop organises Billie's Craft Beer Fest. A unique formula for Belgium (all in formula) with 50 of the very best (Inter)national craft breweries. Annually half of November Beer cuisine A number of traditional Belgian dishes use beer as an ingredient. One is carbonade (French) or stoverij or stoofvlees (Dutch), a stew of beef cooked in beer, similar to Boeuf bourguignon. The beer used is typically the regional speciality—lambic in Brussels, De Koninck in Antwerp, and so on—so that the taste of the dish varies. Another is rabbit in gueuze. In't Spinnekopke, Brussels, and Den Dyver, Bruges are famed for their beer cookery. In 1998 Anheuser-Busch InBev started a worldwide chain of bars/restaurants, Belgian Beer Cafe, serving typical Belgian dishes combined with Belgian Beer. The varied nature of Belgian beers makes it possible to match them against each course of a meal, for instance: Wheat beer with seafood or fish. Blond beers or tripel with chicken or white meat Dubbel or other dark beers with dark meat Fruit lambics with dessert Appreciation and organizations "Beer Passion" is a magazine, which also organizes a beer festival. "Zythos" is the name of the main consumer's organization, successor to the earlier OBP (Objectieve Bierproevers). The Belgian Brewers' Association represents breweries. It organizes beer festivals and an open breweries day. The Knighthood of the Mashstaff honours individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to brewing, and pays tribute to Gambrinus and Saint Arnold. Beer writers who have written extensively on Belgian beer include Belgians Peter Crombeq, Gert van Lierde and Erik Verdonck, and Britons Michael Jackson and Tim Webb. On 1 December 2016, in the eleventh session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage held in the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Conference Centre, Addis Ababa, as an appreciation towards the beer