Beer festival - a festival whose main subject is beer . Different brewing companies present their varieties on it, during the festival tasting and consumption of beer takes place, various events and contests on relevant topics are held, souvenir products are sold.
Beer festivals are held in almost all countries where beer production and consumption are developed.
Beer Festivals in Germany
It is believed that the Germans are the most beer nation (according to surveys, 91% of men and 67% of women drink beer here regularly) and that the largest beer festival in the world is Oktoberfest (however, this opinion is inaccurate, because Oktoberfest is a folk festival, not a beer festival) .
Other most famous:
- International Berlin Beer ( Berlin )
- The Beer Mile [1] (Berlin; annually since 1996) [1]
Beer Festivals in the Czech Republic
- Beer Festival in Pilsen
- Slunce ve skle ( Plzen , Czech Republic)
- Czech beer festival. Prague ( Russian ) ( Czech Beer Festival Prague )
UK beer festivals
English beer festivals usually focus on ales , also sometimes include ciders
- Great British Beer Festival [2] ( London (Great Britain), since 1975 )
- Perterborough Beer Festival ( Piterborough , UK)
Beer Festivals in Russia
- Moscow International Beer Festival (formerly the Great Moscow Beer Festival [3] (inaccessible link) ) ( Russia )
- Festival of Czech National Cuisine and Beer (Russia)
- Moscow festival of British beer
Other festivals
- Latvian Beer Festival ( Riga , Latvia ; annually since 2011)
- Belgian beer weekend (Brussels, Belgium; since 1998)
In cultural works
- Beer Boom ( Beerfest ) ( 2006 , USA - Australia)
See also
- Birophilia
Notes
- β Berlin festival βBeer Mileβ ; 2013 - 3 km, the average visitor drinks 2 liters of beer and eats 4 nipples