Great tips on preparing for a craft beer festival

The increase in the number of craft beer festivals has been skyrocketing the last few years. In 2016, we visited the Zythos beer festival, Night of the Great Thirst, Lambic and Sour Ale Sunday, Ghent beer festival , Villaggio della Birra and many more. With spring time approaching, …

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Open Beer days at 3 Fonteinen Brewery

It’s been almost 10 years since we first visited the 3 Fonteinen brewery, back in the days the general Open Brewery days (late April) were still being organised amongst different Belgian breweries. Small tours were given in the rather small location in Beersel, whilst enjoying …

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Tasting at Lambic and Sour Ale Sunday

The first edition of the Lambic and Sour Ale tasting was organised by Bierhalle Deconinck in Vichte. The event was quite exclusive, as only 250 tickets in total were sold. Beer lovers from Belgium and beyond gathered on this sunny Sunday afternoon for an exquisite …

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Visiting Ghent Beer Festival 2016

In Belgium, beer festivals are sort of a tradition. They may vary in size, like the country’s largest beer festival in April, just out of the city center of Leuven, with almost 100 breweries, and thousands of beer fans from around the world. However, small is beautiful, which the people …

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Meet up with Totem Brewery (Ghent)

During the 7th edition of the Ghent Beer festival on August 20th 2016, our craft beer devotion led us to one corner of the festival: “the brewer’s bar”. After choosing 2 tasters of Totem (more on this later), we started talking with Klaas Dellaert, the brewer …

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