Tag: Warsaw Beer Festival

I haven’t had any beers from Green Head before, but they seemed to be attracting some considerable interest at Warsaw Beer Festival. They were founded in 2018 and their brewery is located roughly half-way between Warsaw and Gdansk.

The beer that seemed to be drawing the most attention from the brewery was “I’m Green” and I note that it was pretty much the same colour as the football pitch. It was a quirky beer, gently sour, a tropical taste and I’m not entirely sure that the colouring was particularly natural, but there we go. I like beers that are a little different and although this isn’t the first green beer that I’ve had, they don’t come along often. I can’t imagine why not….

I visited this stand every day of the Warsaw Beer Festival, not in a stalking sense, but their beer range did change every day and I didn’t want to miss out too much. I consider Funky Fluid to be the best brewery in Europe, so this was always something that was likely to surprise and delight me.

The selection on the first day.

This is a pizza from one of the food trucks and it was very delicious. But, that’s not the highlight here, it’s the already mostly drunk Batch #1000 from the brewery. They gave me this free as it ran out whilst pouring, so that was a bonus. Anyway, this is their 1,000th recipe and this verged on being one of the best beers that I’ve had, up there with Goose Island and their Bourbon County Stouts. It was smooth, even at the 13.5% ABV and it had sherry notes, toffee, dark chocolate, bourbon and it was beautifully decadent. And the pizza complemented it beautiful.

And a quick mention of the Gelato XTREME : Banana, Mango & Yuzu. I mentioned this Craig from Norwich beer festival as I think more beers need yuzu in them. I’m not sure that he was convinced. Anyway, it was thick, creamy with heaps of banana and mango. Decadent, quirky and moreish, as well as being a challenge for the next brewery to try and clean that glass.

Anyway, always a delight to see Funky Fluid and to try several of their beers.

I had to start somewhere and this year’s beer festival started at Browar Moczybroda. They’re from Poznań and I’ve had a couple of their beers before in Poland, both of which were decent. This was about as quiet as the three-day festival was, so I took advantage of that. The brewery have been trading since 2018, although I don’t think that they have a taproom in Poznań.

I was pleased that they had plastic glasses as I didn’t want to try and get an actual glass back on Wizz Air. These cost £1 and they are refundable, but I’ve kept mine. The beer is the Jack Mangow, a 7% DIPA, which had a robust mango taste, it was juicy and I’m convinced that this was healthy. A very decent start to the weekend.