Our first foray into Romanian craft beer in Timișoara had been a revelation; we’d discovered some great local breweries like Bereta, plus some national names such as Hop Hooligans. We’d heard, however, that we might want to lower our expectations a little for our next stop in Sibiu. Just like in the rest of Romania, …
What did we know about Romanian beer before arriving? Frankly, nothing at all. Given the reports from friends who live here or have visited, I wasn’t expecting too much either. Nevertheless, we arrived in Timișoara with open minds and a healthy dose of optimism. Apparently the city is one of the world’s leading dental tourism …
When we first started looking into the beer scene of Belgrade, our plans were expanding at an exponential rate as to where we had to go and what we had to try. However, in planning our beer-scapades around the city there was one thing we hadn’t considered; just how brilliant Novi Sad would be. Having …
When we set out five months ago, a visit to Serbia was never really on the cards. We knew were starting in Estonia and ending in Romania, so Serbia seemed a little out of the way. However, when looking at onward travel from Budapest it turned out that getting around Hungary didn’t seem so easy. …
Craft beer is big business in Budapest and it was one of the cities I was most excited to visit. Dotted around the city there are dozens of bars offering everything from tiny Hungarian microbreweries to big international names like Mikkeller and Evil Twin. We looked online for where to visit during our time in …
One Friday night last year we went, as we often did, to the pub round the corner from our flat. On our return I remembered we needed to pay that month’s water bill and asked Poppy to send her half. She got distracted and started looking at flights instead. Long story short, she ended up …