Kevin Verstrepen is a Professor in Genetics and Genomics at Leuven University, and has also conducted research into beers at Harvard and MIT. In collaboration with Miguel Roncoroni, who obtained his doctorate from the wine lab of the University of Auckland and a team of 15 scientists, he worked for years on chemical analysis, blind testing and objective comparison of the 250 beers in this guide. Together they decided to combine their knowledge and expertise to finally give Belgian beer the in-depth research that it deserves.