Last year
Brewery Festival (Főzdefeszt)
has 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, ont he first three days of summer, the organizers summon the brewers to our favourite historical square int he middle of
Budapest
, and ask them to share what they have been brewing since. 21 Hungarian breweries would 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 with more than 55% corn used.
The most exciting exhibitors will be te so-called
guerilla-brewers
, who started out as 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.
They have an illustrious list fo guests as well. The British Embassy and BeerBier pub will bring two types of ''real ale'' from Fuller''s, Sörmanufaktúra - the German Beer Shop - will bring an assortment of some of the best Bavarian breweries including Schneider Weisse and Camba Bavaria. Pivo and Hrabal, the best of Budapest''s Chech pubs will tap a nice collection of Chech beers including beers from Zatec, Koutsky and Vyskov.
