The festival will be held on 13-14 May, 2011 in Budapest, in Mikszáth Kálmán Square, the middle of the so-called Castle-district. We aim to showcase the unknown achievements of Hungarian craft-beer that has been largely overlooked until now, due to Hungary’s primary classification as a wine-country. Our not-so-secret goal is to start a beer-revolution in Hungary, to make good and real beer available to everybody.

From all corners of the country, 10 microbreweries will bring more than 200 barrels of craft-beer to Budapest. You will have a chance to taste Korty, the most famous Hungarian beer-specialty, fermented with Tokaji Aszú, usually only on tap in Miskolc and Prague, or the 10% strong black beer brewed with blueberry on the southern parts of Alföld, or the Millet-Beer, brewed to double gravity especially for our Festival. There will be some beer-premiers on Főzdefeszt as well – the premier of Grabanc IPA – the first Hungarian IPA, and Keserű Méz (Bitter Moon), the first Hungarian hop-lager, a substyle just invented to refer to a specially hopped light unfiltered lager – Hungary’s answer to American IPA.

Our special guests from abroad include the renowned Pivovarsky Dům from Prague, with their festive green beer brewed with nettle, and Slovakia’s No1 craft-brewery, Kaltenecker from Rozsnyó with a rauchbier among others. We shall also introduce Hungarian audience to Gösser’s most distinguished, hiding beer-specialty, Gösser Zwickl, which is a beautiful unfiltered barleybeer.

Food shall be served by the eight participating pubs, and one of Hungary’s most exciting gastro-blog, Malackaraj.