Idiot's Trove

Samia Patsalides and Rémy Perée have restored an old manor in Harzé, Belgium to a new glory while squeezing a brewery and bar into it.

Jan Kemker likes to stay close to his roots, coming back to a farm near his hometown of Münster, Germany to found Kemker Kultuur in Alverskirchen. He is brewing farmhouse beers, sours, and gruits along with his interpretation of traditional Münster beers such as his Aolt beer with plums. 

Belgium Beer Week kicks off from today 24 August featuring bars and other venues in Brussels and Antwerp hosting some 60 plus events.

Michał Langier, a former photographer, started Funky Fluid in Warsaw with Karol Mizielski.

Untapped's co-founder Greg Avola discusses coding and rating beers on the app he created in 2010 and which has become an indispensable beer nerd tool.

Video: Magali De Vinck of Zythomania by L'Echappée Bière talks about the business of beer tasting and brewery visits in Belgium in the time of Covid-19.

Tim Webb, author of Good Beer Guide Belgium and co-author of the World Atlas of Beer with Stephen Beaumont, talks with the Beer Idiots on the current state of the beer industry as it struggles to emerge out of the COVID-19 crisis.

Michel Collot and Bruno Jacobs co-founded La Brasserie Belge in a section of Liège known as Herstal, with another friend, Pierre-Yves Meeckers, a pharmacist and master brewer around 2018.

Follow Fiorenza's route this weekend as he provides a taster through some of Brussels' finest craft places post-lockdown.

In an interview on 26 May, Sven Gatz, a homebrewer, author and Minister for the Brussels-Capital Region, talks about brewing, and Belgium's evolving beer culture.