New Zealand Beer Festivals

Festival of Beer — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:52:50 +0000

In my last post, “Where are all the Australian Beer Festivals?“, I was wondering why Australia, a country that has such a deep association with beer, has very few Beer Festivals.

Well, their cousins across the water in New Zealand seem to do somewhat better. A search in the Festival of Beer Search Box shows that there are at least two Beer Festivals planned for 2009.

Why is this a better state of affairs than Australia? Australia has a population of just over 20 million, whilst there are only just over 4 million Kiwi’s. This means the Beer Festival Ratio* (a measure that I have just invented!) for New Zealand is 2 million people to 1 Beer Festival, whilst the ratio in Australia is 7 million people to 1 Beer Festival.

Clearly New Zealand is the better place to live!

You can help improve the Beer Festival Ratio in either Australia or New Zealand (or any country for that matter) by going to the Add Your Beer Festival page and submitting the details of the new Beer Festival.

The Liquorland New Zealand Beer Festival

Mark your diaries for The Liquorland New Zealand Beer Festival that is taking place in Wellington on 28 February 2009.

There will be over 20 breweries, with over 70 beers, represented at this Beer Tasting event. Most of the beers will be from New Zealand. However, I notice that the Miller Brewing Co. are included! Yes, Miller of dubious beer and sore heads fame.

If you are going to this event make sure you taste the quality craft beer that is produced in New Zealand by New Zealanders – don’t waste your delicate taste buds drinking rubbish beer. After all, these Beer Festivals are designed to showcase the best that is on offer in a country. The best ingredients, the best brewing processes and the best beer!

Cheers to New Zealand!

* The Beer Festival Ratio is simply a measure of the number of people in a country to the number of Beer Festivals that are held in that country. Obviously, the smaller the ratio the better chance you have of attending a Beer Festival in that country!

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The Biggest and Best Beer Festivals for 2009!

Festival of Beer — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:58:38 +0000

With the Northern Hemisphere deep in winter it is time to start planning for the big Beer Festivals of 2009! Below is a list of the biggest and best Beer Tasting events that are being planned for 2009.

Not that big necessarily means best, for there are countless Beer Festivals taking place around the world every day (well, maybe not every day!). Check out our Festival Search Box at the top of this page to find Beer Festivals that are occurring near you!

This is a multi-post article on Beer Festivals that are being planned for 2009.

photo credit: josef.stuefer

North America

Mondial de la Biere is Canada’s largest Beer Festival. It takes place 3-7 June 2009 at the Windsor Station and Courtyard, 1160, De la Gauchetiere Street West, Montreal.

Toronto’s Festival of Beer is a relatively young festival but is growing in popularity. It takes place 6-9 August 2009 at Historic Fort York, 100 Garrison Road.

The Great American Beer Festival is to be held on 24-26 September 2009 in the Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO.

The Great World Beer Festival is to be held in New York City. Date and location to be advised.

United Kingdom

The Farnham Beer Exhibition will take place 23-25 April 2009 at the Farnham Maltings.

The Great British Beer Festival takes place in Earls Court, London on 4-8 August 2009.

The Peterborough Beer Festival will take place 25-29 August 2009 at The Embankment, Bishops Road.

Germany

Arguably the best of the best is Oktoberfest! Held in Munich on 19 September to 4 October 2009. Sixteen days of pure heaven!

The Cannstatter Volksfest is a 2 week festival held in Stuttgart over the period 25 September to 11 October 2009.

The Gäubodenvolksfest in Straubing is another Bavarian Beer Festival. It takes place from 7 to 17 August 2009.

photo credit: moominsean

Australia and New Zealand

The Tasmanian Beerfest is held in Hobart. The date is to be advised.

The New Zealand Beer Festival is taking place in Wellington on 28 February 2009 and Auckland on 14 March 2009.

BrewNZ takes place at the Wellington Town Hall on 28 and 29 August 2009.

photo credit: eürodäna

This is by no means a complete list but just a snap shot of some of the larger Beer Festivals that are being planned for this year. I will be posting more in-depth articles on the major (as well as some of the smaller) Beer Festivals from around the world.

Do you enjoy Beer Festivals? Do you want to keep up to date with all the Beer Festivals that are taking place near where you live? Then why not subscribe to my RSS feed as well as using the Festival Search Box?

Cheers!