Beer Idiots

30/11/2025

More beer coming!

21/11/2025

Chilly outside, warm inside. How to get there? Check out our calendar for the weekend, with lots on here and at the BAL - Festival Bière à Lille, where we will meet the Belgian contingent along with the French brewers. See you there or somewhere else! www.idiots.beer/events

17/11/2025

A call for local beers for a fest. Help them out if you can!

Hi Christmas Beer lovers! Help us out! Do you also love beers from the other side of the religious spectrum? Beers From Hell is the name and theme of a small scale beer festival to raise funds for a local youth association. The beer list exist of classics like Duvel, Helleketel, Mort Subite, Tête de Mort and Duivelsbier, accompagnied by international specials that have something Devilish or at least a skull or monster on the label. Can you help us out by bringing your local specialties "from hell" to the Christmas Beer Festival? Please contact us by PM! Depending on beer style and price we only need about 6-12 bottles/beer.

14/11/2025

Brassin Public at Cantillon is the place to be on Saturday. Or you can head off to Namur for Stout Sure Meuse, which is a great bottle festival. I downed a lot of stouts last time. Enough! See you out there and of course check out our festival list on Beer Idiots: https://www.idiots.beer/events/

17/10/2025

There's quite a lineup this weekend. If you get a chance, take the trip to Brassigaume; it's one of the great cosy, village festivals with a spirit and a decent offering of regional beers. We should also mention Sacrilege at Dynamo - Bar de Soif among the many places to go. See the calendar: https://www.idiots.beer/events/
Check our beer festival calendar as well: https://www.idiots.beer/beer-festivals-events-2025-the-beer-idiots-list/

17/10/2025

From cub reporter and BBM! traveler Martin Berg, "Hey Stu. Hope life's treating you well. I thought it might be of interest to you that Trader Joe's has now partnered with Brouwerij Van Steenberge to produce their Belgian Christmas ale. This is an exciting change, since it was previously always brewed by Unibroue in Quebec, Canada. Bottles hit our stores today at $7.99 for a 750ml bottle. Quite a deal here in the US." Martin, I agree and it puts me in the mood for the Christmas Beer Festival & Markets Tour, Dec. 8-15. We're down to the last seats. Deadline is Nov. 1 to register. Act now. Merry Christmas to you! Belgianbeerme.com/christmas-tour

10/10/2025

Oh oh...halloween is around the corner. More to follow I guess.

Good gourd! It’s the terrifying return of Ghoulship, our tart pumpkin ale brewed with fresh local pumpkins, molasses, and raw pumpkin seeds. Cooled in our coolship on Halloween night, it spends up to three years in oak barrels, picking up just the right touch of tartness to lend balance to its caramelized richness and subtle earthiness. You can find it haunting our shelves in both of our tasting rooms…if you dare.

10/10/2025

A reaction from our friend at Brussels Beer City to a relatively short article from a British blogging couple on Belgian beer tradition and change. You should also check out the Hoppestraat podcast where Jasper Pollet talks with Farrell Styers from Stroom on the same subject, among others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYlizpu3-N4&t=1955s

*Or, a (semi-serious) rebuttal of Boak and Bailey’s “We don’t want Belgian beer to change – and that’s our problem” Picture this: it’s 1925, and you’re a young English man of means stepping off the train at Gare du Midi for a weekend enjoying what Brussels has to offer. You fancy you...