It\u2019s unfortunate that I\u2019m a creature of habit because I am carving out an almost exact repeat of last year\u2019s trip for my holiday in Europe. As I visit Belgium for probably the 5th or 6th time (lost count), this trip will be the best one yet because instead of hopping around at various bars and drinking whatever is on tap, I\u2019m actually going to pay visit to my favorite breweries and attend a few beer-centric events. While my time in Copenhagen last year was fun but not worth revisiting, I am in fact going back to Denmark again this year. I thought of visiting Sweden, Ireland, Scotland or Greece but the timing of Copenhagen Beer Celebration (CBC) has me revisiting this great country.<\/p>\n
This is also my first international travel without the purpose of work but that isn\u2019t keeping me from working 3 days in our Ghent Belgium office while traveling. There are teams I need to meet up with and I enjoy taking a break from trying new beers to actually get some work done.<\/p>\n
This was last year\u2019s schedule:<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s trip is very similar with events and stops kind of like last year:<\/p>\n
This is a total of 11 full days of activities. Primarily for this trip, I want to explore breweries more and share drinks with the friends and traders I\u2019ve met via RateBeer and there are quite a few of them. The cost of this trip will be quite affordable at around $2,000 and that includes the festivals and daily drinking with strangers.<\/p>\n
As usual, if any of the readers of this blog want to meet up just send me a note and we\u2019ll do so. The goal on this trip isn\u2019t to collect a lot of new beer ratings but to drink quality stuff that I enjoy with some new rates thrown in. If a bar has Cantillon Kriek on cask, I\u2019m ordering that. Also meeting up with breweries that I haven\u2019t visited before and seeing the new Mikkeller bar in Copenhagen. These will be a lot of fun.<\/p>\n
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