Wild Festival Groningen

01/03/2023

Feedback Wild Festival Groningen 2022

Hi! Did you already saved the date? This year the festival is in the weekend of 20 - 21 October!
Ticketsales will go online in April.

Did you visit last years edition? Then we emailed you (check the spamfolder).
Please fill in our small survey, give important feedback and get the chance to win two tickets for the festival!

Thank you very much for your visit. We hope you enjoyed the festival just as much as we enjoyed organizing it for you. We would be glad to receive your feedback, so we can keep on improving our festival. Please fill in this form below and let us know your thoughts on the festival.

23/12/2022

Save the date!
20-21 October 2023
4th edition of WFG at EM2 Groningen
See you next year for more details… 🦌🍾

12/12/2022

We got this special deal for you!

With buying this box you are supporting the organization of Wild Festival 2023.

We created an exclusive box together with Beerdome, including six beers from some of the world's best breweries. The box includes six bottles of 750ml, for a total price of 195,-.

One bottle from each of the following breweries: Nebuleus, Sante Adairius Rustic Ales, Tommie Sjef, Wildflower Brewing & Blending, and two bottles from Mikkeller Baghaven Brewing and Blending.

Selection of beers:
1x Nebuleus: Something to Observe; Viognier; Melon de Bourgogne; Exchanging glances; Wandering in the night; Rosé; Unnamed.unblended B1
1x Sante Adairius Rustic Ales: The Gift of Comfort
1x Tommie Sjef Wild Ales: Olasz; Bitter; Druif; Franc
1x Wildflower brewing & blending: Ambrosia Amaro; Walt; Schiste sans Schiste; Gold (Blend #35)
2x Mikkeller Baghaven Brewing & Blending: M2, Days Between Amarone; Symbol of Renaissance 2021; Blanca 2021; Form & Insight 2021; Havnesæson Blend 4; Pántáo 2021; Los Flores 2020; Rubus of Rose 2021

There will be a total of 36 boxes, which will randomly be created with the beers above. Please do not ask for certain bottle to be put in your box.

There is a maximum of one box per person.
Shipping is possible for all EU countries (except Finland), and free of charge within The Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.
(Shipping terms https://www.beerdome.nl/en/service/ )

Follow this link to order the box:
https://www.beerdome.nl/wfg/

Cheers, and we hope to see you again in 2023!

28/09/2022

[FOTO’S] Terugblik! Dit was Wildfestival in Groningen - indebuurt Groningen

Thank you for the nice review Indebuurt Groningen! https://indebuurt.nl/groningen/genieten-van/fotos-terugblik-dit-was-wildfestival-in-groningen~172788/

Het is steeds op meer plekken verkrijgbaar en uitermate geschikt voor de borrel: de natuurwijn. Afgelopen vrijdag 9 september kon je met onder andere natuurbier, cider en natuurwijn kennismaken op het Wildfestival in EM2. Een walhalla voor de echte fijnproevers. Fotografe Marije Woudsma was erbij om...

11/09/2022

The third edition of our festival was awesome!

Thank you all for coming: brewers, wine/cidermakers, wineshops, volunteers, dj, and all cider, wine and beer lovers from all over the world!

See you next time ❤️

07/09/2022

Looks like Nederlandse Spoorwegen are striking this Friday… as a result, there are no trains all day 😞
We really hope you can make it to Groningen with a different kind of transport.
Thursday and Saturday trains will run.

Some options:
- Travel Thursday by train, and stay a night extra
- Come together by car, post below if you got a spot left in your car
- email/pm me if you want to come Saturday instead of Friday, we can swap your tickets
- take the Flixbus from Brussel, Amsterdam or Berlin
- got a good idea or solution, post below!

07/09/2022

We are participating in at this coming weekend! The line up is really awesome, with many great wild brewers and amazing wild food.

We are there for you if you fancy a decent hoppy break from all the sour madness!

Our draft list includes:

Howling at the Moon (x White Dog Brewery)
NEDIPA (8.5%) w/ Citra, Vic Secret & HBC630

Roots
NEDIPA (8.2%) w/ Citra, Nelson Sauvin & Simcoe

Into the Great Wide Open (x Ārpus Brewing Co)
NETIPA (10%) w/ Nelson Sauvin, Mosaic, Galaxy & Citra

Endless Summer
NEIPA (7.5%) w/ Citra, Strata & Sabro

Sour Sequence #4: Raspberry Passion Fruit
Fruited Sour (8%) w/ Raspberry & Passion Fruit

Enjoy the Ride
NEDIPA (8%) w/ Citra, Cryo Pop & El Dorado

See you there! 🍻

07/09/2022

To all beergeeks who like to bring in your own bottles for some variety to flush away the delicate spontaneous fermented and carefully aged beers, wines and cider:
Please note that we are a very small festival, with a lot brewers that came from all over the world to serve you! So respect the organization and brewers and don't turn the festival into a big bottleshare of self-brought bottles, you can do that at home or in your hotel/airbnb.
There is plenty! The line-up has a wide range of ciders, pet nat, lambic, wild ale, saison, grisette, piquette, white/red/rose/orange wine, frizzante and in addition there are IPA's, smoked porter and imperial stouts.

We prefer none, but because we know you will, we tolerate bringing 1 bottle a day.

05/09/2022

We made the selection for all sessions and the list is amazing: more than 100 different beers, wines and ciders per session are here to choose from, by the glass. A lot new beers and new flavors to discover!

You will get a different handout for each session with the complete menu, and don't forget to check out the wines and ciders! Thanks to the hard work of one of our volunteers you can already scroll through the beerlists:

Session 1
https://untp.beer/jKWOg

Session 2
https://untp.beer/lynK7

Session 3
https://untp.beer/9qLWv

Unfortunately the beers from SARA and Nebuleus won't make it in time... We really tried and pushed, but the boat didn't leave on time to make it.

04/09/2022

Black Wild merchandise, t-shirts for sale during the sessions. Unisex sizes M, L, XL and XXL.
Certified organic cotton by Stanley Stella

04/09/2022

Another side event! Brussels Lof Groningen: beautiful restaurant paired with wonderful ciders

More info:

https://facebook.com/events/s/aeblerov-food-pairing-side-eve/4038100929748528/

30/08/2022

We are almost ready for the third Wild Festival!
The festival focusses on small scale breweries with independent artisanal passionate brewers. This edition some new breweries and homebrewers attend the festival. In total we have more than 300 different beers, wines, and ciders, spread over three sessions.

Because of the early harvest of grapes Tom from Antidoot - Wilde Fermenten and Matthieu from Pellicle Vergistingen can’t make it to the festival to pour themselves. But, don’t worry, we are happy to pour their bottles from the big Bierselect bar in the EM2 venue.
At this bar you can find beers from Brasserie Artisanale Ammonite, DUST Blending, Mills brewing, Tommie Sjef, Nevel Wild Ales, Brasserie Cantillon, and À tue-tête.

Because we had some more space, we are happy to announce two new names!
Teeningar homeblends from Groningen will be there, and new brewery Okidoki from Amsterdam, making beer, cider, and wine!

At this moment our shipment from Nebuleus and Santa Adairius Rustic Ales is still somewhere on it’s way from USA, but we are not sure if it will make it in time for the festival.
We did everything we could, are dependent on others and now there is nothing we can do about it.
Fingers crossed, there is still a chance it will make it!🤞

15/08/2022

Our festival is loaded with the best wild , and . And of course drinks are to be combined with delicious food!
In the foodcourt you can find De Wilde Slager for various wild dishes, Wilde Wadoesters for wild from the Waddensea and Achterwerk with their Snackwerk foodtruck.
Besides this you can buy tickets for special events on Saturday: the brunch Sepia with Mikkeller Baghaven Brewing and Blending and two sessions at the festival with Herberg Onder de Linden and three special beers from Wildflower Brewing & Blendingwildflowerbeer , Brasserie Cantillon and
Tickets for the side events are available in the shop!

02/08/2022

Get your tickets for Wild Festival Groningen here.

First side events online in the ticketshop!
https://wildfestivalgroningen.stager.nl/web/tickets

27/07/2022

SIDE EVENTS

First side events will be for sale soon!

The program is almost finished, we made some nice diversity to complete the Wild weekend!

Thursday 8 September, 20-24h
Magnumparty, one magnum per person. The more people, the more magnums! Expect exceptional natural wines and lambics from Tommie Sjef, Bofkont, Antidoot - Wilde Fermenten and many more. Max. 30 people.
Location: Cilinder Bar/ OOST Groningen.

Friday 9 September, 15-17h.
Wild walk in nature, wild picking with Mattias Terpstra from Nevel Wild Ales and Greendreamster. Mattias and Sanne will tell you all about wild nature and inspiring ingredients. Including beer tasting of Nevel beers.
Location, walk starts EM2 Groningen

Fridayafternoon, to be discussed

Saturday 10 September, 11h-13:30
Baghaven Beer Brunch, at Sepia with chef Fareeda van der Marel.
Wonderfull beerparing brunch with 4 beers by Mikkeller Baghaven Brewing and Blending served by Ehren Schmidt.
Including 4 courses, amuses, coffee, water and bread.

Saturday 10 September 16-18h and 19:30-21:30
During the festival sessions at Wild Festival Groningen chef Falk van Essen from Herberg Onder de Linden will serve a delicious 3-courses beerfood pairing, you can pick up the dish and beer during the session.
The exclusive beers will be from Nebuleus, Wildflower Brewing & Blending and Brasserie Cantillon.
Two sessions, two times three different beers.

More locations will follow, and maybe more brewers will join ;)
Info, prices and tickets will be published soon!

14/07/2022

Line-up

The line-up is complete! Some old and big names, some new and maybe unknown?!

Latest additions can be found here:
https://wildfestivalgroningen.nl/en-line-up/

Did you get your tickets for one of the sessions yet? Each session there will be different beer/wine/cider at each bar. Get Wild!

Antidoot - Wilde Fermenten
Æblerov
Bakkum Fermentation
Bofkont
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen
Brouwerij VandenBroek
Brewpub De Kromme Haring
Doggerland Craft Cider
Elegast cidery
Elixer Bier
Folkingebrew (for fresh IPA!)
Métaphore
Mikkeller Baghaven Brewing and Blending
OMNI ferments
Rockin' Ludina Brewery
Symbiose Brewing / Blending
Vino Per Tutti
Wildflower Brewing & Blending
TuurlijkWijnen

Bierselect Groningen pouring several breweries and styles:
À tue-tête
Brasserie Cantillon
DUST Blending
Nevel Wild Ales
Tommie Sjef

Every year we do our very best to provide you with a broad and exclusive line-up of beers, wines and ciders. Below we proudly present this years line-up. Make sure to keep an eye out on our socials, because we regularly add new brands to discover!

07/05/2022

Our new website is online!
http://wildfestivalgroningen.nl

The festival will be Friday 9 and Saturday 10 september 2022, 3 sessions with different drinks. Food stands will serve delicious food!
Besides the festival there will be several side events at different locations in the city.

The lineup is almost ready, we will add some great surprises later...

Follow us for updates and news.

There will be excellent natural wine, artisanal cider and the best spontaneous fermented lambic, sour beer, wild ale and mixed fermentation saisons.
Besides that, there will be fresh local ipa's and some barrel aged stouts for a change.

Cheers,
Bierselect & Boilermaker

06/04/2022

Fundraising Berryland, organized by Klaas Jan Geertsema

Please help Berryland Cidery, give them a new future so they can make cider, perry and mead again!

With this fundraising we want to support Berryland Cidery. The complete cidery/ meadery is … Klaas Jan Geertsema needs your support for Fundraising Berryland

05/03/2022

Dear wild lovers!

We are working on a great line-up for 9 and 10 September!
Our website will be online and updated soon, ticketshop is still active and we added more tickets because the festival will be inside the venue and outside in the garden at EM2 Groningen.

There is one major change in the sessions:
We had to cancel the Friday afternoon session, this gives us more time for side events and a more divers festival with three sessions.

Festival program:
Session 1, Friday 9 september 18-23u
Session 2, Saturday 10 september 14-18u
Session 3, Saturday 10 september 19-23u

Guests who already bought tickets for the Session 1 in November 2021 got an email (check your spambox) with details about the refund. If you got questions please contact us!

23/11/2021

Photos from Ciderwinkel's post

12/11/2021

It is really sad, but we have to postpone our festival because of covid restrictions that have just been announced.
We can't organise a half festival or create the ambiance that we want.

Tickets will be valid for the next edition, this wil be a wild summer edition: friday 9 and saturday 10 september 2022!

We are really sorry for all guests, participants and brewers, but hope to see you in 2022.

All ticketholders will get an email soon.
Side events will be refunded.

If you got any questions feel free to contact us!
Stay safe, f**k corona.

12/11/2021

Later tonight we will give an update about new covid-restrictions. Stay tuned...

06/11/2021

Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen is coming to Groningen and will pour some awesome exclusive blends!

- Cuvee Armand & Gaston Season 17/18 Blend 27
- Speling van het Lot X.x Druif Cabernet Cortis
- Intens Rood Peated Season 19/20 Blend 79
- Nocturne Season 19/20 Blend 2
- Pruim Mirabelle Season 20/21 Blend 11
- Druif Muscaris Season 20/21 Blend 16
- Aardbei-Kriek Season 20/21 Blend 7
- Speling van het Lot XVII.ii Kweepeer Season 19/20 Blend 65
- Pruim Belle de Louvain Season 20/21 Blend 10
- Druivenlambiek Gewürztraminer Season 20/21 Blend 5
- Aardbei Season 20/21 Blend 6
- Rabarber Season 20/21 Blend 24
- Zenne y Frontera Season 19/20 Blend 67

27/10/2021

Antidoot - Wilde Fermenten is the perfect example in making combinations of cider, wine and beer. Inspired by nature, plus the beer and wine tradition they make exciting combinations.
The concept of our festival is inspired by their hybrid combinations so we are super proud to have Antidoot present in Groningen!

During the different sessions these beers/wines/ciders will be available:

- Riesling
- Analogia
- Winterhout
- Gorsem / Framboos
- Sitopia
- Proceeds the Gentian - Tarocco
- Perzik / Nectarine
- Autonomia
- Yggdrasil
- Woop Woop
- Artemisia
- Cornucopia 'R'

20/10/2021

Wild Festival Groningen | Wild Festival Groningen

Volg ons op Instagram of Facebook en zie welke bijzondere bieren, wijnen en ciders te ontdekken zijn tijdens het Wild Festival!
🦌 www.wildfestivalgroningen.nl 🍾
Follow us on Instagram or Facebook and see which exclusive and special beers, wines and ciders you can discover at Wild Festival!

Welcome to the third edition of Wild Festival Groningen.

15/10/2021

Brasserie Cantillon is one of the famous lambic breweries that will be available to drink at Wild Festival Groningen.
We will pour an amazing list of different beers at the Bierselect Bar!

- Gueuze
- Kriek
- Rose de Gambrinus
- Bruocsella
- Mamouche '20
- Iris '20
- Nath '18
- Nath '21 (keg!)
- Cuvée de Champions
- Cuvée Saint-Gilloise
- Mamouche
- Drogone Lambic
- Menu Pineau
- Saint Lamvinus
- Fou Foune (keg!)
- Racine
- Sophia
- Vin Santo

See you 19 or 20 november!
Tickets and full line-up:
https://www.wildfestivalgroningen.nl/

14/10/2021

Nice blog about Cantillon Zwanze 2021 x Bierkoning x Taverno Willi Becher.
Featuring some breweries you can also find on our festival this november: Brasserie Cantillon, Elixer Bier, Bakkum, Nevel Wild Ales, Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen and Antidoot - Wilde Fermenten.

Zwanze 2021 / De Bierkoning / Taverno Willi Becher

06/10/2021

The line up is complete! During the weekend of November 19-20, 2021 we bring the worlds of beer, natural wine and cider together.
Wild spontaneous fermentation is the central theme, but we also offer beer styles like IPA’s, stouts and saisons. We are very proud of this line-up, from all over Europe:

À tue-tête
Æblerov
Antidoot - Wilde Fermenten
Bakkum Fermentation
Berryland Cidery
Bofkont
Brasserie Artisanale Ammonite
Brasserie Cantillon
Brouwerij VandenBroek
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen
Brewpub De Kromme Haring
Elegast cidery
Elixer Bier
Folkingebrew
London Beer Factory Barrel Project
Mikkeller Baghaven
Mills brewing
Métaphore Brewing
Nevel Wild Ales
Tommie Sjef Wild Ales
Rockin' Ludina Brewery
TuurlijkWijnen
Vino Per Tutti

Next update will be about the foodcourt!
Did you get your tickets?

30/09/2021

Buy tickets | Wild Festival Groningen

Maybe the last addition to the line-up!

We welcome to Groningen for the first time:

- Mikkeller Baghaven 🇩🇰
- Æblerov 🇩🇰

Besides that, we will pour beers from:
- Métaphore Brewing 🇨🇿
- Nevel Wild Ales 🇧🇶
- À tue-tête 🇨🇭

And the first side event will be the amazing beerlunch at Herberg Onder de Linden, Thursday 18 november 12:30 - 16:30, with beers from our Belgian friends Antidoot - Wilde Fermenten and Bofkont. Reservations must be made directly at the restaurant!

Hope to see you in Groningen!
https://www.wildfestivalgroningen.nl/tickets/

When available, here you can buy your Wild Festival Groningen 2021 tickets and side event tickets.

21/09/2021

Proudly we present this Dutch addition to the line-up:

Tommie Sjef will share the love for wild ales!
Folkingebrew will share their passion for IPA's!
Nevel Wild Ales will share everything about wild herbs, and handpicked ingredients straight from nature!
Rockin' Ludina Brewery will share their special barrel aged sour beers! (only on available Friday sessions)
De Kromme Haring will share their passion for mixed fermentation! (only available on Saturday sessions)

13/09/2021

Next update for the wild line-up!

Wild wines:
Vino Per Tutti 🇮🇹/🇳🇱

Wild ciders:
Berryland Cidery 🇺🇦
Elegast cidery 🇳🇱

Wild beers:
Antidoot - Wilde Fermenten 🇧🇪
Brasserie Cantillon 🇧🇪

09/09/2021

First names for the line-up!

Brouwerij VandenBroek 🇳🇱
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen 🇧🇪
Bofkont 🇧🇪

And our favorite homebrewers:
Elixer Bier 🇳🇱
Bakkum Fermentation 🇳🇱

31/08/2021

Get your tickets for Wild Festival Groningen here.

Tickets go for sale tomorrow 21:00 / 9 pm.
4 sessions, maximum of 400 people per session:

19 november 2021
Sessie 1: 14-18h
Sessie 2: 19-23h

20 november 2021
Sessie 3: 14-18h
Sessie 4: 19-23h

https://wildfestivalgroningen.stager.nl/web/tickets

28/08/2021

We are busy with the third edition of our festival!

19 and 20 November 2021 we will celebrate wild fermentation again.
Soon we will start ticket sale for the four different sessions: 1 September 21:00.
Line-up and program will be announced later.

15/08/2021

Thank you all for coming to Groningen from all over the world!
Really happy we could do this edition, outside, in these crazy times. You are amazing people!

See you again next time!

14/08/2021

Day 1 🍾 thank you!
See you at 13:00 for day 2!!

10/08/2021

LAST UPDATE
The weather is gonna be really good, temperature is increasing!
The number of covid infections are rapidly decreasing!

And we got a few surprises!
- DUST Blending will come to pour their beers on Saturday for session 3 and 4
- Brasserie Artisanale Ammonite beers are available to drink at the festival
- Bierselect Groningen selected some classics and stouts for variation

Most of the brewers will be here to pour their beers, the breweries marked with a * will be available at the big bar inside the venue. For several reasons they are not able to come to Groningen.

Drinks are different for each session, with some overlap. At the festival you will get a handout with a clear overview for each session/day.
Our amazing beer list is possible to see here: https://untp.beer/0ad785665b

Paying for the drinks is done by tokens, à €2,90. Drinks vary in price and size.

Total line up:
Antidoot - Wilde Fermenten *
À tue-tête *
Basic Theory Ferments
Brasserie Artisanale Ammonite *
Brasserie Cantillon *
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen *
Brouwerij VandenBroek
Bokke *
Bofkont
Chien Bleu
Ciderwinkel
Doggerland Craft Cider
DUST Blending
Elixer Bier
Folkingebrew
Hill Farmstead Brewery *
Nevel Wild Ales
Pellicle Vergistingen
Symbiose Brewing / Blending
Tommie Sjef *
Vino Per Tutti

See you soon at EM2 Groningen!!
Get wild 😉

The Boilermaker Group / Bierselect Groningen

03/08/2021

Get your tickets for Wild Festival Groningen here.

Today is the last day you can buy food-related tickets!
So get your tickets for the evening sessions with Wild dinner, or one of the beer-food pairings in the afternoon.

https://wildfestivalgroningen.stager.nl/web/tickets

02/08/2021

A big cider tasting, for a small price!

01/08/2021

Herberg Onder de Linden, the best restaurant of Groningen, will make 3x 3 different beer pairings at the afternoon sessions!

Different sessions with:
Hill Farmstead Brewery
Brasserie Cantillon
Symbiose Brewing / Blending

Tickets available until 3 August:
https://wildfestivalgroningen.stager.nl/web/tickets