Picture this: you’re in a calm forest clearing, immersed in the crisp winter air, wrapped in a thick blanket sitting around a toasty, crackling bonfire, with aromas of smoke mingling with the freshness of beech trees, and life is perfect other than a lingering anxiety that your hair and clothes are going to resemble an ash tray the next day. […]
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.
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, […]
Czech beer is basically perfect. Their totally neutral water profile means they concoct Pilsners that are almost unrecognisable from the macro gunk we drink in the UK, with heavenly clouds of foam and aromas of central European forests that will haunt your dreams (important distinction from haunting your nightmares). These beers are to be found everywhere in Prague, so our […]
It’s like they forgot Germany and Czechia are either side of them. The indie beer scene in Vienna is, in a word, Scheiße. We dug around for the dregs in case you need a switch up from Schnitzel and Sachertorte, but there’s clearly a reason Marx and Freud used to hang out in cafes and not pubs. AmmutsØn Craft Beer […]