Bierfestival Groningen 2015

I went to three editions of this festival and though the location inside the Martini church is awesome it was lacking in some areas. Reasons that made me skip the festival last year. The entry fee was steep and the brewers not the kind you wanted to make the long and expensive journey for. Most of them were at other festivals nearby anyway and if it wasn’t for the simple fact that I went to school about a hundred meters from the church and that my family still lives there, I wouldn’t pay over 20 Euros for the train fare to Groningen and another 14 Euros for the entry fee. And 14 Euros is only worth 2 glasses of beer and a bottle of water.

Smaller brewers are improving

But the festival has evolved, along the lines that the Dutch craft beer scene evolved in the last few years. The organizers want to highlight brewers producing around 1200 hectoliters. This is laudable but in the past meant that only brewers with average brews were at the festival. But the festival has shown that the over

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