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 Above: Belgian Brewers Day 2018 (tip: play while reading this article). Webcam Grand-Place: check out the festivities and watch the drinking live. The 25h edition of...

Belgian beer culture is being celebrated around the world once again during the last week of August in recognition of its UNESCO’s designation as...

Andrea Seeger owns and runs the Craftbeer Lodge in Freiburg, Germany. She has been keeping the spirit of craft thriving in the Black Forest region by being one of the few outlets for brewers to sell their beers and also by creating a few collabs under the Beer Lodge brand.

Marco Cervetti, an Italian chef in Kyiv, Ukraine, describes how he made his Brussels Borscht, which he unveiled at Cantillon's Quintessence.

Carien Touwen, a beer sommelier and beer guide based in Jette, Brussels talks about the business of beer guiding and hosting tastings.

Paul Lefebvre gives us an update of Belgium's brewing sector. We caught up with Lefebvre at the Beer Experience Expo, held at De Koninck brewery in Antwerp on 24 February.

Beer Experience Expo 2025, held 26 February at De Koninck in Antwerp, bills itself as the ‘Craft Brewery Fair’ for anyone and everyone who is passionate about beer. 

The Beer Idiots visited La Jungle at Studio Citygate, an old industrial site near Gare Du Midi.

Shweta Panicker, who is in Belgium as a judge for the Brussels Beer Challenge 5-7 November, is from Hyderabad, India. Now living in the Netherlands for the past six years, Panicker talks to the Beer Idiots about the current state of the craft beer sector in India.

We salute label designers and other creative and idiotic endeavours with a selection of this month’s beer graphics.