Welcome to Belgian Beer Me! (BBM!) Beer Tours
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featuring multiple departures for 2024 & 2025 • Beer Travel Made easy with more options. View tours by calendar.
“Belgian Beer Me! specializes in fun, smart and affordable beer tours of Belgium for people from all around the world with more than ten innovative and exciting departures annually. That more than 30% of our travelers are returning customers speaks volumes. Join us and you’ll see why!”
Welcome to Beer Paradise
BBM! Founder Stu Stuart enjoying a Belgian beer in front of the proud Flemish Lion. Santé! (To your health!).
“My tours are pure escapism from the normal humdrum and often dull routine of everyday life. Why are BBM! travelers so faithful and often return on other tours? Because I’m one of them. I seem to reflect this desire to travel, enjoy life and discover good beer. My lifestyle revolves around work and play. I just got out and did the things they wished they could and was lucky enough to make a career out of it. It takes quite a bit of effort. It’s like running a concert tour with lots of moving pieces: People, vehicles, places.... The only way I can share my years of experience is to offer and lead these authentic and very personal beer tours. My job is to provide pleasure, to let people forget about their problems for a week or so. If I can do that, I’m doing my job. We’re all growing older together. Fun is important in this world. Let’s have fun together.”--Stu Stuart, April., 2024.
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to travel with BBM! and get your personal backstage pass to the Belgian beer world. Tours for 2024 & 2025 are now posted. Let our large imagery and engaging video transport you to majestic Belgium now! You can almost smell the sweet aroma of the beer and feel a gentle Ardennes Mountain breeze on your face as you click around the site. In fact, why not pour yourself a Belgian beer now while you do it so you can really smell and taste it?
You can view all the tours by theme, below, or by calendar. Viewing Tours by Calendar, you’ll quickly see many tours are back-to-back so you can combine them and create the ultimate beer tour of your dreams with just one flight across the pond. This site is exciting, responsive to personal devices, intuitive and makes signing up and submitting a deposit online easier than ever. No need to send anything through the U.S. Mail.
Most of these images were taken by me. Others are used with permission from brewers and freelance photographers, all friends of BBM!
We also take this opportunity to introduce you to the beer city of Bamberg, Germany, another one of the last bastions of Old World beer culture and a place that should be on every beer enthusiast’s list of places to visit. Let us show you this city and region and you will ask yourself, “What took me so long to get here?” Bamberg: There’s No Place Like It! For 2024, we will offer four tours to Germany: The Summer Bierkeller Tour of Bamberg, two departures of the Oktoberfest & Bamberg: Best of Bavaria Tour, and the Fall Bock Beer Tour of Bamberg. Bamberg and the Franconia region of Germany will delight any beer lover.
In 2025, look for the new Beer Tour of Croatia. This tour is confirmed and close to selling out.
I hope these images and our easy-to-use site will inspire you to visit the magic of Belgium. Put our more than 15 years of experience and passion to work for you. Show up, relax and enjoy the beer tour of a lifetime. I invite you to join us as we meet the fascinating and friendly people who make these eventful beers, share in their cuisine, enjoy their scenic settings, experience history and most of all enjoy the pure pleasure of these fine beers right at the source!
Belgium, Germany, Netherlands and France are now open to the world and the U.S. has abolished inbound C-19 testing! Hooray! Visit COVID-19 FAQ & Tour Updates to learn more about our proactive approach to the post pandemic as it relates to upcoming tours, and safeguarding you and your travel dreams to Europe.
“People often ask me, “Do you ever get tired of going to Belgium?,” and I say, “No, I get tired of leaving Belgium.””
As heard on Rick Steves....
Travel with Rick Steves radio and podcast interview with Stu Stuart. "Hear how the beer in Belgium is so good, it's worth a special trip." Find out more...
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Take a listen to BBM! Founder Stu Stuart on the Award-Winning Belgian Smaak Podcast with Breandán Kearney as they talk about how the history of Belgium, and particularly stories of war, from the country’s world renown beer culture. Both are inextricably linked and each offers an insight into the other. Also take a listen to the Stu on the Lambic Round Table recorded livestream event from Brewery Boon and presented by HORAL, April, 2022. Sit back, listen, and enjoy Stu Stuart of Belgian Beer Me! Beer Tours.
OUR most popular TOURS
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Lonely Monks Trappist Beer Tour of Belgium & the Netherlands
Beer is one of the few indulgences monks are permitted and thus one of the reasons they know how to brew special beers so incredibly well. On this very special tour we will visit seven Trappist abbeys that brew beer (five in Belgium and two just across the border in the Netherlands) and sample their beers. Read more...
Ardennes Mountain beer tour of Belgium
Arguably one of the most beautiful regions in Belgium, the Ardennes Mountains are rich with beer culture, scenery, gourmet cuisine (ham, trout, etc.), enchanting towns and history (Battle of the Bulge & Waterloo). On this tour we plan to visit the breweries of Achouffe, Caracole, Fantome, Minne, Val Dieu, Ter Dolen and Orval. Read more...
BEST DAMN FARMHOUSE ALE BEER TOUR of Belgium & France
Venture into the elusive and obscure world of saisons and biére de gardes, whose roots can be traced to rustic ales once brewed on farms in this wide area once known as the Kingdom of Flanders. We’ll visit some small independent breweries still located on working farms and some large, modern ones, all situated in scenic countryside locations, where we’ll experience these satisfying ales. Read more...
OUR most distinguished TOURS
Christmas BEER Festival & Markets Tour of Belgium
Tis the season to be jolly! This is a very, very special and merry festival featuring many delightful seasonal Belgian brews, which are only available in Essen and in limited quantities. Read more...
Beer Tour of Croatia, yes croatia!
New for 2025! You’ve been thinking about travel to Croatia and here’s your chance, all while enjoying this emerging beer scene along the way. The tour starts in on of Europe’s most beautiful capitals, Zagreb, then moves to the islands in the Adriatic Sea, then to Dubrovnik. You’ll wonder what took you so long to decide to come here. Come for the scenery, stay for the beer! Read more...
OUR FAMOUS TOURS OF BAMBERg, germany & OKTOBERFEST
Summer Bierkeller TOUR OF BAMBERG
In Bamberg and the Franconia region, they call beer gardens beer kellers because many of these forested hillside beer gardens traditionally were (and are) on top the underground cellars where they lagered the beer. Sometimes people will refer to going “on” the beer keller, rather than “to” the beer keller, which when you know the backstory makes sense. Read more...
Oktoberfest & Bamberg: Best of bavaria Beer Tour
Just mention Bavaria and images of beer, Dirndl dresses and Lederhosen come to mind, yet the beer cultures of the north and south are unique in their own rights. To fully appreciate, enjoy and know Bavaria, you have to experience both Munich and Bamberg. Read more...
Fall Bock Beer Tour of Bamberg
The Germans call it Bockbierzeit, loosely translated to bock beer time. Each fall the breweries of this region release their delicious bock beers for the winter, which may be different than ones you’ve had in the past. They have a wide range of flavors and can be malty, sweet, deceptively strong and even pale in color. Read more...
““...We both want to thank you again for doing such a good job putting this tour together and leading it. Insuring that everything runs smoothly and looks effortless takes a tremendous amount of work and a diverse skill set and you did an extraordinary job putting everything together. In the past Anne and I have always put our own trips together, and we were a little nervous about what it would be like to do a group tour. However, our fears turned out to be completely unfounded and we both agree that there is no way we could have come close to duplicating your tour on our own. We are already talking about what our next tour should be.” ”