Belgian Beer Week 2023

Overview

One week, you can pretend you're in France without leaving Brisbane, just by eating French food, drinking French brews and celebrating Bastille Day. The next week, you can do all of the above with Belgium thanks to Belgian National Day. Your destination for the latter: Saccharomyces Beer Café, which is spending Monday, July 17–Monday, July 24 looking abroad.

The South Brisbane venue is also calling its celebrations Belgian Beer Week, and pouring Belgian brews every single day. That's what you'll find pumping through its taps, with more than 35 different varieties on offer. And, there's a lineup of bottled Belgian beers as well, including limited-edition drops.

Think you can pick different Belgian beers? Blind tastings will be on the agenda from Monday, July 17–Wednesday, July 19. Fancy watching a TV show about Belgian burgundies while sipping them? That's also on the menu to kick things off.

Old beer and cheese, which makes quite the pairing, gets its time to shine on Tuesday, July 19. On Thursday, July 20, fruity beers are in the spotlight.

Over the weekend of Friday, July 21–Sunday, July 23, you'll be celebrating Belgian beer in general — and, over the entire week, the bar's kitchen will be doing Belgian specials.

Then, come Monday, July 24, it's time for whatever's left — or kliekje, which is Flemish for leftovers.

Cole Bennetts