Festival: Beyerd Beer Festival (Second Edition)
Location: Breda, The Netherlands
Last Sunday i visited the second edition of the Beyerd Beer Festival, in my college town of Breda.
The festival was held in the 'week van het Nederlandse bier' or 'week of Dutch beers', a week that celebrates beer and breweries from Dutch soil. It was held together with another festival, the burgundian boschstraat (street) festival, although i didn't really notice the presence of that particular festival :P
Cafe de Beyerd is, in my opinion, one of the best pubs in Breda. The cafe always has a great atmosphere and a wide selection of craft beers. Furthermore, it also has its own brewery (Drie Hoefijzers) which is always nice. But i will stop advertising and get back to the main subject of this blog, the beer festival itself.
As far as beer festivals go, the Beyerd beer festival was quite small, with only 11 breweries attending. The great thing about this particular festival however was the fact that the majority of the breweries participating were from the city itself, or the surrounding area. This really provided a great opportunity to discover some fantastic new brews which were from, or close by, the city where i study.
As you might have observed from the picture above, much like the last beer festival i visited, the weather was not very accommodating. It was raining most of the day and the temperature was not what it should have been, however this did little to deter me, my friends, and the fellow visitors to the festival.
As mentioned above, the beer festival hosted 11 different Dutch breweries, which ranged from aspiring home brewers to established craft beer breweries. What they all had in common however was that they poured some great brews. Once again, not a single brew i had was disappointing.
For those of you who use Untappd to keep track of your brews, you probably know it is quite hard to find a beer, especially at a beer festival, which is not yet present on said app. Surprisingly i did manage this at the festival, i actually added the above beer on Untappd, a first for me since I've started using it.
But back to the main topic.
There were also some interesting things to discover at this particular festival, for example, there was a beer taste guessing game present. This game was played by trying to blind guess which beer belonged to which bottle, something i would have loved to participate in. Unfortunately, at the point where i became aware of this games existence, i had already ruined by taste buds with some hop heavy brews.
Furthermore, there were a number of interesting brewery stands present. One even had a special type of tap, which provided the option of adding specific flavour to the beer as it coursed through it.
and some brewery stands just looked really cool..
I really enjoyed myself at the Beyerd beer festival, and I'm sure that my friends, and fellow visitors, did as well!. If you ever find yourself in the Netherlands, or near Breda, next year around the same time, i highly recommend paying a visited to this small but absolutely fantastic beer festival (i just hope the weather is better next time around)
Cheers!
Location: Breda, The Netherlands
Last Sunday i visited the second edition of the Beyerd Beer Festival, in my college town of Breda.
The festival was held in the 'week van het Nederlandse bier' or 'week of Dutch beers', a week that celebrates beer and breweries from Dutch soil. It was held together with another festival, the burgundian boschstraat (street) festival, although i didn't really notice the presence of that particular festival :P
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| Cafe de Beyerd |
Cafe de Beyerd is, in my opinion, one of the best pubs in Breda. The cafe always has a great atmosphere and a wide selection of craft beers. Furthermore, it also has its own brewery (Drie Hoefijzers) which is always nice. But i will stop advertising and get back to the main subject of this blog, the beer festival itself.
As far as beer festivals go, the Beyerd beer festival was quite small, with only 11 breweries attending. The great thing about this particular festival however was the fact that the majority of the breweries participating were from the city itself, or the surrounding area. This really provided a great opportunity to discover some fantastic new brews which were from, or close by, the city where i study.
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| Beyond beer festival in full swing |
As you might have observed from the picture above, much like the last beer festival i visited, the weather was not very accommodating. It was raining most of the day and the temperature was not what it should have been, however this did little to deter me, my friends, and the fellow visitors to the festival.
As mentioned above, the beer festival hosted 11 different Dutch breweries, which ranged from aspiring home brewers to established craft beer breweries. What they all had in common however was that they poured some great brews. Once again, not a single brew i had was disappointing.
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| Enjoying a Galders Bokbier (Doppelbock) 3.75/5* |
For those of you who use Untappd to keep track of your brews, you probably know it is quite hard to find a beer, especially at a beer festival, which is not yet present on said app. Surprisingly i did manage this at the festival, i actually added the above beer on Untappd, a first for me since I've started using it.
But back to the main topic.
There were also some interesting things to discover at this particular festival, for example, there was a beer taste guessing game present. This game was played by trying to blind guess which beer belonged to which bottle, something i would have loved to participate in. Unfortunately, at the point where i became aware of this games existence, i had already ruined by taste buds with some hop heavy brews.
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| Guess the Beer! |
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| One of the 'special' taps |
and some brewery stands just looked really cool..
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| St. Christoffel mobile bar, awesome! |
Cheers!
