Invitation: Craft-Beer Festival, Budapest, 1 - 3 June

  • 1 Jun 2012 9:02 AM
Invitation: Craft-Beer Festival, Budapest, 1 - 3 June
Last year 'Főzdefeszt' managed to ignite something of a craft-beer revolution in Hungary, proven by a row of new breweries and craft-beer pubs opening since. This year, on the first three days of summer, we will welcome brewers to our favourite historical square in the middle of Budapest, and ask them to share what they have been brewing lately. 21 Hungarian breweries will offer more then seventy types of beer, including new lagers and Irish reds, wheatbeers and bocks, fig-beer, millet-beer, william’s pear beer, corn-beer.

18 microbreweries from all over the country will come to Budapest\'s Mikszáth Kálmán Square to showcase their products. Visitors will have a chance to taste \'Korty\', a famous Hungarian beer speciality, fermented with Tokaji Aszú, and only available on tap in Miskolc and Prague.

Our most exciting exhibitors will be te so-called guerilla-brewers, who started out a homebrewres, but since homebrewing has been legalized in Hungary, they took to real micro-breweries and brewed their own creative beers in their kettles
in larger quantities. Dark Side of the Grabanc (D.S.O.T.G), a black IPA will be presented next to last year’s famous winner, Grabanc, Hungary’s frist real American Pale Ale. Bitterfly, Papap O’Hara and Bitumen will be tapped on the festival.

We have an illustrious list fo guests as well. The British Embassy and BeerBier pub will bring us two types of real ale from Fuller’s, Sörmanufaktúra – the German Beer Shop – will bring us an assortment of some of the best Bavarian breweries including Schneider Weisse and Camba Bavaria. Pivo and Hrabal, the best of Budaopest’s Chech pubs will tap a nice collection of Chech beers including beers from Zatec, Koutsky and Vyskov.

Come and join our craft-beer revolution! Good beer is a basic democratic right.

And don’t forget: you have to fight for your rights!

Entry free. The festival is open from 12 to 24 every day. Please use the map/vote forms to vote for the best beer of the festival!

List of beers offered at the festival

Source and more info (in Hungarian): fozdefeszt.hu

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