Kerst Beer Festival (Essen)

How to get ready for the Kerst Beer Festival festival:

Tickets are sold from the 1st August. And I can assure you Saturday is always sold out very fast. The place has a capacity for 900 people so 900 tickets are sold. On Saturday after 7 p.m there is free entrance but they will control the number of people is never more than 900. 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 near and  there is a free shuttle from the Essen Station to the festival and return.

This festival is always the weekend before Christmas and all the beers are Christmas or Winter beers. The best of the best, the special Christmas brew some breweries make at the beginning of the winter, and once it is finished you need to wait until the next year.

Have a look to the beerl list 2017!

I love Christmas! and even more with a few Christmas beers!

See you there!

Cheers!

 christmas beer festival

Big Thanks to all the volunteers! 

kerstbierfestival volunteers