You might be a little confused reading the words “iconic brewery” and then a name you maybe haven’t heard of, but trust me, you know Damm well – because Damm Brewery in Barcelona is the home of Estrella, one of the most recognisable beers on earth. Big reveal, huh! Well, it gets even better. Damm is eligible for inclusion in […]
The weird thing about Amsterdam and craft beer is that four of the top craft beer bars are owned by the same guy, and if you go to all of them in one night you get a free T-shirt.
The ancient Greeks drank beer to increase their strength for all that Minotaur fighting they had to do. Respect.
Don’t worry, the anti-tourist protesters will let you in if you drink high quality local beer. If you’re seen with a Mahou, however, you’ll be blasted with water that tastes better than the Mahou. To find the good stuff, Barcelona has four top stops to cool off after a long sweaty day wondering why the Sagrada Familia hasn’t been finished […]
“Craft” beer in Berlin is a little ironic (well, isn’t everything?) given that bottles of German Lagerbier from any corner shop are delicious, with plentiful choice and at half the price of something more “indie”. You want Kellerbier, Helles, Dunkel? It’s all there, in those slightly oversized glass bottles in all shapes and sizes, staring out of the fridges like […]
Situated conveniently on the train line between Prague and other common interrail destinations of Bratislava, Vienna and Budapest, Brno unfairly receives short shrift. This is Moravia in pure time capsule form, with charming 19th century buildings, the echoes of Communism (including a well-integrated Vietnamese community giving the local cuisine a welcome uplift) and pubs, pubs, pubs. The city is small […]
Budapest was waaaay ahead of the game before most of continental Europe. We first visited in 2008 and they already had epic bars, and by the mid-2010s it was considered an early craft-beer paradise among the central European traditionalists. Since then, not much has changed, with a solid scene of stalwarts without too much recent innovation – probably because they […]
There are tonnes of places here for international beer but you didn’t come to Florence for that. You came for the museums. Then you got bored of the museums and needed a beer.
Google “good beer in Ghent” and you’ll be sent down a rabbit hole of epic proportions, so much so that your paralysis of choice may render you incapable of even sipping a Belgian Blond let alone a 12% Tripel. We don’t claim to be the most in depth guide to the city – there are literally hundreds of quality drinking […]
We published a long-read on Leipzig in Ferment Magazine back in September – here are the highlights: Dr Hops: Eight taps, 100 fridge beers and a focus on German craft – what more do you want? Dr. Hops sits at the southern end of the buzzing KarLi neighbourhood and represents the best of the city in every way. Aesthetically modern, […]