Hungary’s first craft beer festival

Hungary will host its first ever craft beer festival from May 13-14th at Mikszáth Kálmán Square in Budapest. The festival’s aim is to showcase the achievements of Hungarian craft-beer, that has been largely overlooked due to Hungary’s primary classification as a wine-country.

From all corners of the country, 10 microbreweries will bring more than 200 barrels of craft-beer to Budapest. Visitors will have a chance to taste Korty, Hungary’s most famous speciality beer, fermented with Tokaji Aszú, usually only on tap in Miskolc and Prague, the 10% strong black beer brewed with blueberry on the southern parts of Alföld, or the Millet-Beer, brewed to double gravity. There will be beer-premiers as well – the premier of Grabanc IPA – the first Hungarian IPA, and Keseru Méz (Bitter Moon), the first Hungarian hop-lager, a substyle just invented to refer to a specially hopped light unfiltered lager.

Special guests from abroad will include the renowned Pivovarsky Dum from Prague, with their festive green beer brewed with nettle, and Slovakia’s No1 craft-brewery, Kaltenecker from Rozsnyó with a rauchbier among others.

Admission is free. For more information about the festival, visit FozdeFeszt (Hungarian Craft Beer Festival).

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