Oktoberfest’s appeal extends far beyond the brew. It offers a vibrant, immersive experience of Bavarian culture and is popular all over the world.
Category: Festival
Rotterdam Year in Beer 2024
Another year flew by! Check out my 2024 Rotterdam beer experience highlights.
It’s HOP time!
Bierfestival HOP is back for the 8th edition in Rotterdam on August 16 & 17.
Toer de Geuze: celebrating Belgian wild ales
If you love Lambic and Geuze beers or enjoy beer history, then this is the adventure for you. Toer de Geuze celebrates the wonderful traditional wild beers of Brussels and the Senne Valley.
Rotterdam Year in Beer 2023
While we reflect on our new year’s resolutions and what is to come, here is a lookback at my Rotterdam year in beer.
A Warsaw Craft Beer Experience
Europe's best kept secret, the Warsaw Beer Festival is every beer lover's dream. The city is pretty amazing, too!
A Budapest Craft Beer Experience
Budapest is both a vibrant craft beer hub and a wonderfully romantic city. It organizes one of the best beer festivals in Europe: the Budapest Beer Week.
A Tallinn Craft Beer Experience
A craft beer guide to Tallinn's breweries, craft beer bars and bottle shops
Carnivale Brettanomyces: a celebration of wild beers
This article is a celebration of the wild ale Celebration and a take on my impressions of Carnivale Brettanomyces in Amsterdam. If you are genuinely curious about beer – and these styles in particular – I can highly recommend Carnivale and hopefully this article will entice you to attend and create your own experience!
A Copenhagen Craft Beer Experience
One of Europe’s biggest (and perhaps best?) craft beer festivals, the Mikkeller Beer Celebration has long been on my wish list. This year I finally got the chance to check it out! The festival is absolutely deserving of its reputation, but Copenhagen itself is also a delightful city, so if you decide to visit, don’t miss out on all the...
Rotterdam’s newest beer festival
One of the things I love most about Rotterdam is its innovative spirit and how it embraces new developments and sustainable solutions. Uit Je Eigen Stad, which literally translates as ‘From Your Own City’ is one of those great initiatives, an urban farm that grows its own produce to serve in their restaurant. What better place to have Rotterdam’s first...
The magic of Borefts
I finally made it to Holland’s most famous beer festival! My first time at Borefts Beer Festival didn’t disappoint. About 20 breweries were invited for the festival, spanning two days, September 22 & 23. If you're going to a beer festival for the first time, here are some tips to make it a great one!
World’s longest beer garden
A mile long beer fest, wouldn’t that be phenomenal? It exists! Although not a local Rotterdam beer event, this experience was so special, I had to include it in my blog. The International Berlin Beer Festival, also called ‘the beer mile’, is an amazing 2,2 kilometer beer festival right in the heart of the city, near Alexanderplatz. According to the...
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