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

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

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.

Image gallery and watch the video; read the story of Pierre Tilquin, a top Belgian blender of gueuze beer.

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.

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

Pierre Tilquin talks about recovery after the lockdown, barrel ageing his lambic blends and takes us on a tour of Gueuzerie Tilquin in Rebecq, Belgium.

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.