Beer festivals 2025 – the Beer Idiots list

The Beer Idiots’ festival and special events calendar is full of great events in Belgium and nearby. Don’t forget the Beer Idiots’ Belgium Beer Week’s sixth edition 25-31 August 2025. Bars, brewers and event holders sign up for a great week to celebrate an intangible cultural heritage to humanity.

Remember, things change, so please check the links to the site for changed dates/venues/cancelled events. It happens! If we have missed any festivals or made errors (we’re Idiots after all), do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected].  It’s gonna be another incredible year of meeting people, all for you. 

The 10th edition of this festival is hosted at la Grand Place d’Enghien. On the program: beer tastings, musical entertainment, concerts and discoveries.

Held at Streekproducten Centrum (Regional Products Centre) in Halle by De Lambikstoempers beer club (to which I belong) it features bottles from every brewer and blender of geuze and lambic in Belgium, served up by club members. You will also find a lot of the brewers holding court over the two days. The Beer Idiots are usually among the last to leave it’s so good. A fantastic fest in a parking lot that’s not to be missed.

Beer by the Sea seems like fun and in Middelkerke. We wait to see which brewers they feature!

Set in the lovely courtyard of the Handelsbeurs in Antwerp this fest features traditional and craft brewers of Antwerp and area.

Run by the Biergilde Sainte Gertrude this fest celebrates local breweries.

A street beer fest with food and a BBQ.

This free beer festival takes place in Hamont Achel, where about 15 brewers are featured. Facebook.

Misery Beer Co. hosts this festival at their amazing location in Aywaille/Harzé. Tickets sell fast. As the founders put it: ‘The best event of the summer, with music, beer and the energy of despair in BBQ sauce’. 

No date has been announced as of early June. Keep checking here. This regional festival in Zwevegem attracts over 12,000 visitors every year who come to enjoy more than 120 regional beers. Some 35 breweries from home and abroad are invited.

This festival is held at the Grote Markt in Tongeren:

Brouwerij Hof ten Dormaal hosts this exclusive festival in Leuven. It is truly a festival of discovery as the Janssens invite only the brewers they love and who are cutting edge. Keep track of their Facebook page to find out when and where.

Another great fest on the Belgian beer calendar by De Lambikstoempers beer club. It’s being held in Halle at CC ‘t Vondel.

Yep, the Beer Idiots have to put on a festival, and this celebrates Belgian beer culture worldwide in honour of UNESCO’s designation as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity . It’s a co-creation event. Events are put on by the participants themselves, of which there are hundreds in Belgium, the UK, Austria, Germany, Poland, Brazil, Hong Kong, South Korea….the list goes on. Bars, brewers and event holders can participate by signing up here. Check our Facebook page for updates.

This one-day festival is held in Sijsele, Belgium. Info here: www.biervanolier.be

Held at the Grand Place in Brussels by the Belgian Brewers association, this event features parades, bands and pomp among the 50 or so breweries serving beers to about 61,000 visitors over the weekend. 

We don’t know much about this festival but it is held in the main square of Nivelles where you can drink ‘quelques’ beers according to the organisers.

 This Brussels festival, held by the Brussels Beer Project, will be held again at Place Sainte-Catherine. 

This festival BBF25 takes place in the Bruges Meeting & Convention Centre in the city centre with +/- 50 breweries and beer companies featuring 350 beers.

This festival is held in Vijvers, Zottegem by the local beer club. 

Grégory Verhelst of Brasserie Artisanale de Rulles hosts the lovely festival Brassigaume in Marbehan. It’s well worth the trip.

This festival is held in Poperinge, the centre for many of the remaining hop farmers in Belgium. This lovely little festival is held in the square near the Hop Museum and combines traditions with some of the best known and iconic Belgian brewers in the area (hint: including the nearby Trappist brewer). 

Tickets go fast at Stéfan Cauwenbergs’ world-famous Billie’s Craft Beer Fest  at Waagnatie Expo & Events, in Antwerp, Belgium. It is one price and what you can taste. Certainly, it is not to be missed. Facebook.

We list this here as it is such an incredible festival and showcase of French and international beer. They even have a special section for Belgian brewers. Video: Nicolas Lescieux of  l’Échappée Bière, one of the organisers of the Bière a Lille (BAL), talks about the growth of craft beer in France and takes us on a walk among some of the brewers. The festival hosts events from 17-21 November with the beer fest on the weekend at Gare Saint-Sauveur.

Namur Capitale de la Bière hosts a showcase of about 50 beers of both the dark art and sour beers. Stouts and sours are the mix at La Nef (2 Rue Saint-Nicolas) in Namur, always a great place to visit.

Winters Bierfestival is organised by Waregemse Biervrienden, a group of friends that have been brewing together in Waregem, where the festival is held. 

Kerstbierfestival ends the year with some heavy beers and drinking in Essen. Tickets run out fast as the space is limited and it is one of the great beer events in Belgium. Some 200+ Christmas beers are featured. Tickets presales from September 1.