Idiot's Trove

Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen plans to open a second brewery in autumn 2022. The site in Lot, Belgium will also have a visitor centre and...

Philippe Minne of Brasserie Minne is wild about innovation at his designer-made new brewery in Baillonville, Belgium.

Misery Beer Co. is crowdfunding to raise €15,000 to buy equipment for the brewery near Liège.

Raphaël Lambois of Belgium Peak Beer, brews in one of the beautiful areas of Belgium - Sourbrodt, while lies in the Hautes Fanges (High Fens) area of the country near the border with Germany. Beer Idiot Dieter Proost visited him to talk about the brewery.

UPDATE: Jean Van Roy, a brewer and blender at Brasserie Cantillon, has since issued a statement about the Cabaret and the controversy surrounding it.

Marcin Małecki talks about the craft brewery Maryensztadt, which was launched in 2014.

"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.

Interview with Paweł Leszczyński, co-organiser of the Warsaw craft beer festival in Poland.

Lindsay Steen, co-founder of Wild East Brewing along with Tyler March, and Brett Taylor, describes how the brewery managed to start up during the pandemic and the surprising twists and turns that brought the business to where it is today. Wild East is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Nicolas Lescieux of  l’Échappée Bière, one of the organisers of the Bière a Lille (BAL), talks about the growth of craft beer in France and takes us on a walk among some of the brewers.