The Zythos beer festival will be held for the first time in Kortrijk, West Flanders, after many years in Sint-Niklaas, East Flanders, and Leuven. The 18th edition will open at the LandMarck on Saturday at 1pm and close on Sunday at 8pm.
While the venue is changing, the concept remains the same. Admission is charged (€10, without a tasting token) and visitors can buy tokens to enjoy, in 10-centilitre glasses, one or other of the 500 beers on offer from a hundred or so Belgian brewers represented.
“The Zythos Bierfestival is an ode to the Belgian brewing tradition. We want to show visitors the wealth of beer on offer in Belgium, in terms of styles as well as colours, taste, alcohol content…,” Zythos VZW president Freddy Van Daele explains.
“The breweries and other structures subcontracting the brewing are, for their part, happy to show their products to an international audience,” he adds.
Before the Coronavirus crisis, about 10,000 people from some thirty countries flocked to the Brabanthal in Leuven to take part in the event.
Last year, the first post-Covid event attracted 6,000 people.
