Idiot's Trove

I am a convert after drinking three cockt-ales mixed by Damien Baert. The shaking happened during Lindemans Lambic Tour.

Video: Johan Madalijns, president/chairman of De Lambikstoempers tells us what the club is all about and the special lambics and gueuzes available on Dag van de Oude Geuze 2019 in Halle, Belgium.

I walked through the Maalbeek valley with Malt & Mout listening to the story of the breweries that used to exist in the Ixelles area of Brussels.

Sébastien Caucheteur‎ talks about Beergium, a craft beer bar he and Fanny Delhaye launched in Uccle.

Greg Koch of Stone Brewing talks Metallica and passion as he celebrates 23 years in the business of artisanal brewing.

"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.

Daria Palamarchuk updated the Beer Idiots on Varvar Brewing in Kyiv, Ukraine since we last spoke to its founder, and her father, Vasyl Mikulin at Leuven Innovation in 2019.

  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...

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. 

Kevin Desmet, co-organiser of the BXL BeerFest, speaks about brewers and friends and bringing everyone together. The beer festival, held 23-25 August 2019, attracted some 6,500 drinkers.