About Beer

In an interview with the Beer Idiots Tom Bollen talks about combining a love of Belgian beer and local produce at restaurant Taratata in Hasselt, Belgium.

Here we salute label designers and other creative and idiotic endeavours with a selection of this month’s beer graphics. We also feature some new beer releases when we can, so drink up!

Calling one, calling all, it's time to rev up for Belgium Beer Week 2021, 23-29 August, and like the first, it is an opportunity to come out, experience and support the wonderful bars, brewers, beer experts and the fun one can have around beer culture and the people who are passionate about their craft.

BelgHik is a grandiose and not so idiotic attempt to encourage a series of collabs between Flemish breweries and those in Wallonia. Or, why not, between a brewery based in Brussels and one in the German-speaking part of Belgium.

Soirée ZUUR is on tonight (18 June), featuring 69 Brussels bars and 5 brass bands, celebrating the Growfunding campaign to raise funds to keep them going during the Covid-19 lockdown.

Here we salute label designers and other creative and idiotic endeavours with a selection of this month’s beer graphics.

Ready, set go, as Belgians head back to the bars today (8 May), with fresh kegs, clean pipes and glorious beer under cloud cover in most part of the country.

Yvan de Baerts of Brasserie de la Senne talks about his motivation as a craft brewer, his love for the city, and the state of sector due to Covid-19.

With a motto of "enjoy, love, taste, share", Jelle Suply and Koen Kostermans opened their craft beer shop, Hops 'n More, in Leuven in July 2020.

Mathias De Stecker and Franklin Verdonck of Siphon Brewing in Damme, Belgium are looking for a new home, preferably in Bruges.