About Beer

Here we salute label designers and other creative and idiotic endeavours with a selection of this month’s beer graphics. We also feature some new beer releases when we can, so drink up!

One of my favourite places: In the Insurance against Great Thirst is a traditional Payot cafe with one of the largest gueuze and kriek selections in the world.

The following is a round-up of the festivals the Beer Idiots visited in 2019, along with our video interviews of those who either founded them or were part of the organisation behind them.

"Is craft beer burning out?" asks the very perceptive Burnt Out Beer Guy, also known as Darren Packman, in an article on his self-named blog. Beer craft is getting left behind as brewers race to put out new variations of the same thing every couple weeks to keep up with the demand for the new, instead of refining what they have to make it even better.

  Set along a waterway/canal of the Scheldt river, Stroom was founded by American Farrell Styers and Belgian Carl Uytterhaeghe in Gent, Belgium and began...

Join us live at 19:30h CET on 1 April for a special tasting of six barleywines with Grégoire Rifaut at Dynamo - Bar de Soif in Brussels.

André Janssens decided to become a brewer because it was a less stressful life - "like a monk". He founded Brouwerij Hof ten Dormaal at a farm in Haacht, Belgium.

From our roaming beer idiot in Central and South America: I’ve downed Gold Asahi outside Family Marts in Korea until the plastic chairs beneath me melted, I’ve drank banana beer with the locals until I howled like a monkey…. I won’t drone on and on about my adventures but will get straight to the point. I’ve finally found beer heaven. Beers with a view.

Mariusz Zynel of Brewery Zaścianki, in Zaścianki, Poland speaks to the Beer Idiots about the challenges of starting a new brewery in Poland's booming craft scene.

Jocelyn Chazel, co-founder with Mathilde Relet of Brasserie Effet Papillon, Mérignac, France, talks about starting the brewery in 2017 and brings us up to date on the craft scene in the Bordeaux region.