The Best Beer Festivals Around the World

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Jul 7, 2012 —  You’re at the bar, deciding what to order. Should you get a smooth pilsner? How about a strong pale ale instead? Maybe you want a crisp lager or the heavy stout? Hell, if it’s a fermented beverage made of hops, water, and starch, you’ll drink it. So what are you still doing sitting at the bar choosing between limited options of mediocre brews when there are beer festivals going on year round across the world?

You know – beer festivals – those heavenly places where the best of the best congregate together, microbreweries and corporations alike, serving up frothy mugs of malty goodness for your tasting pleasure! Places where you can caper across grassy fields that are pitched with beer tent after beer tent for as far as the eye can see while you sing along to the oompah bands in your lederhosen! Or busy roads whose cars have been replaced by thirsty mobs bouncing from stand to stand, sampling beers with the rest of the sloshy crowds under the perfect weather that seemed to know you planned for a day of outdoor drinking!!

Okay, we get it, you love beer. But before you wipe the drool and book your plane tickets, here are the five best beer festivals around the globe to help you prioritize.