For the moment you can have a look to this page to see the coming festivals.

Beer Agenda

My Favourite Festivals

 

How to get ready for the Kerst Beer Festival festival:

Tickets are sold out very fast. The place has a capacity for 900 people so 900 tickets are sold. Before covid, on Saturday after 7 p.m there was free entrance controiling the number of people is never more than 900. This year it will not be possible to enter without a ticket. So, if you are planning to come get your ticket asap.

For this one you really need to organise your trip with time. Essen is a small village and there is not much place to stay. In the festival web page you have the contact of the two hotels in the village. Normally they are already booked from one year to the next one.

You can also take the train from Antwerp. It is not far and there is a free shuttle from the Essen Station to the festival and return.

See you in the Kerst Beer Festival!

Cheers!

kerstbierfestival poster

 

Billie's Craft Beer Festival

The new kid on the block, new young and fresh festival in Antwerpen. First edition was in December 2017 and we are already looking forward to the second edition the 30th november and 1st December 2018. Amazing national and international craft beers, best organisation ever seen and great ambiance. The first edition has been such a success that if you want to attend this year  you must be fast. Keep an eye on the facebook page.

It might sound expensive because you pay your day ticket in advance +-60 euros. But this ticket includes entrance plus all the beers you wanna drink during the whole day. And beers are no regular beers at all. They are all very special craft beers brought from all around the world specially for you on this festival. Believe me, it is worthy.

Unfortunately I did not have my good camera with me last year so my photos are not the best quality but here you have a few to get an idea. I promess I will take more and better photos in the next edition. I am looking forward to it.

 

Getting ready...

 

 Some entertainment.

Beer tasting!

Zythos

The  Zhytos is the biggest beer festival in Belgium and it was great but is loosing its charm. They are increasing the prices and reducing the glassess year by year. The glass is a cute tiny small pint glass, very annoying and difficult for the browers to tap into and not the good shape for most of the Belgian beers.

Have a look to the Zhytos section of this page to know how to get ready for the festival. It takes place in Leuven (Belgium) and it is always very well organised.

 

After the Zhytos there are several nice beer festivals coming soon but for my favourite we still have to wait to December. It is the Kerst Beer Festival in Essen (Belgium).

When this festival approaches it means Christmas is coming!

 

The bierpassie in Antwerpen:

This is one of the summer festivals. It takes place outside, in the Groen Markt and the atmosphere is great. There is always music around.

beer music

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The problem is that is getting more and more expensive and they use this new tasting glass that looks like a wine glass. The previous glass was much nicer, see below.

old bierpassie glass