Luxembourg Beer Festival?

Originally posted by Travlr

Originally posted by BlackHaddock

Originally posted by Travlr
Paging ggaughan, who used to live in Luxembourg (and has been to several beer festivals there). His cousin kkearn would know also.

I’ve met Greg and his wife: I now remember he lived there for a couple of years.

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There are many beer festivals around in Luxemmbourg but nothing with different beers usually it is either the same beer or only the main luxembourg brands if at all. You will very very rarely see a stand of Bofferding beside a stand of Dikierch or Mousel - either way it scares tastebuds!
Decent beer in Luxembourg is rare and a festival as you would know it from the USA and/or UK, Germany is not exisiting here.
Though the European Brewer Conference was recently here and they tried to have some sort of beer festival in the city center. They failed!
Luxembourg people in general think that wine etc is the best without ever having tried decent beer, for most it is a byproduct to swig down and maybe get pissed.
A shame I know! I am working on this!

Originally posted by caesar
Strange actually, that there is no such thing in Luxemburg. Taxes are usually very beneficial, don’t know about alcohol taxes. And with a lot of breweries in the (belgian and german) vicinity, you cant say there has never been any culture of beer in the area.

I’d highly recommend attending Brassigaume. Though it is in the Luxembourg province of Belgium it is by far the best beer festival that is close enough to Luxemburg. The fest gets a great panel of Italian and British + Belgian craft breweries.

This gentleman http://www.ratebeer.com/View-User-22181.htm lives and works in Luxembourg, and has a fairly good idea about what is going on (and not going on) in the Grand Duchy - from a Briton’s point of view.

If you want some in-depth knowledge about Luxembourg beer history, and read French (only the title is in Lutzeburgesch), this book might be for you:
http://beerinnprint.co.uk/description.php?prodid=773

I am from the area by way of my wife, I was active on the scene and ratebeer for quite a while, but a downturn in the economy here in the US kept me from moving back when I actually had a chance about 4-5 years ago. After a long wait, and hopefully a job transfer in September, I’ll return to my beloved Saarland/And Luxembourg. I hope to be again involved in the beer scene, in Saarland and Luxembourg. Luxembourg had a nice craft brewery called okult? and the beers were pretty good, but they just couldn’t survive, Luxembourg is a quirky place, I love it, but I can’t see how people continue to buy the regular stuff, I like Wiltz, but even they are not doing much new. Wine is the deal here, but even in Saarland, wine is big, but people enjoy their beer as well. Maybe I will start brewing in Salu when I get back, but its one step at a time. I look foreward to re-connecting to the German scene.:-)

Originally posted by Saarlander
I am from the area by way of my wife, I was active on the scene and ratebeer for quite a while, but a downturn in the economy here in the US kept me from moving back when I actually had a chance about 4-5 years ago. After a long wait, and hopefully a job transfer in September, I’ll return to my beloved Saarland/And Luxembourg. I hope to be again involved in the beer scene, in Saarland and Luxembourg. Luxembourg had a nice craft brewery called okult? and the beers were pretty good, but they just couldn’t survive, Luxembourg is a quirky place, I love it, but I can’t see how people continue to buy the regular stuff, I like Wiltz, but even they are not doing much new. Wine is the deal here, but even in Saarland, wine is big, but people enjoy their beer as well. Maybe I will start brewing in Salu when I get back, but its one step at a time. I look foreward to re-connecting to the German scene.:-)

Cheers everybody: according to my stats I’ve had 20 different brews from The Grand Duchy, so I’m not doing too badly.

I can also remember that soft, almost smooth Pilsner from the ’Henri Funk’ brewery: I assume the water used for brewing was not as harsh/hard compared to the German Eifel stuff used in Bitburger etc. I was really sad when the brewery closed and even drove passed it just afterwards, is it now flattened?

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Originally posted by BlackHaddock
Cheers everybody: according to my stats I’ve had 20 different brews from The Grand Duchy, so I’m not doing too badly.

I can also remember that soft, almost smooth Pilsner from the ’Henri Funk’ brewery: I assume the water used for brewing was not as harsh/hard compared to the German Eifel stuff used in Bitburger etc. I was really sad when the brewery closed and even drove passed it just afterwards, is it now flattened?

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