The first beer festival in Barcelona was held only in 2012. It's not so surprising: Spain does not really fit in with the image of the beer state. But Barcelona is not Spain, Barcelona is Catalonia. And if it's true, Barcelona is Barcelona. At the local beer festival beer consumption is combined with "professional days", gastronomic shows, music and other events.

Already in the first year of the festival, it opened 50 points, where you could try about 300 kraft beers, both local and overseas . And exclusively on tap, from taps . Tastings were organically combined with lectures and round tables for a more complete acquaintance with the world beer culture . The following year the organizers came up with something new: together with four n National beer breweries created special edition beer sets, four bottles each . This was the only bottled beer on the fest, and the concept was that each bottle presented one of four components of beer: water, malt, yeast and hops . This tradition was continued and in 2014 .

In 2014, at the beer festival in Barcelona, ​​there were more than 30 mini-breweries of the city making kraft beer . The total number of varieties exceeded 300, and here there was beer from the USA, Belgium, England and Wales, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Portugal, from different provinces of Spain, as well as from such exotic places as the Balearic Islands . Here you could find all possible varieties of beer and similar beers products, ranging from pale-ale and finishing from the aged Belgian fortress 12% to the fruit ladies' varieties with 2-3% strength, from the Baltic porter to Wisen, from oatmeal or rye ale to red balsamic beer .

Also in 2014 a new format of the space called "Meet the Brewer" appeared at the festival. This is a separate bar where you can sit and chat with the brewing masters themselves, who will gladly talk about what they are doing and give them a try. Meetings with brewers are on schedule

Musical events at BBF - novelty of 2015 This year the organizers decided to cooperate with Barcelona's Say It Loud, having planned several DJ sessions under the slogan "Black music and craft beer. " A prerequisite: all DJs play exclusively on vinyl, thus emphasizing the conceptual connection of craft in beer and music.

In recent years the festival has been held on the territory of the Maritime Museum of Barcelona. From the point of view of picturesqueness, the place is beautiful. All three days the festival starts in the late morning and ends in the late evening.