European beer/wine/food festivals help needed please.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

They all look pretty marvellous to me. Really would have difficulty choosing one.

t8yman - if you all don't manage to get this European food and drink thing off the ground then there's a few home festivals that might take your fancy. The Abergavenny Food Festival has been described as the Glastonbury of food festivals. Then there's The Garlic Festival on the Isle of Wight which naturally enough caters for all things garlicky eg garlic ice cream, garlic beer etc. Not sure if either of these two would be raucous drinking occasions though.

[Ed209]

The inaugural Reykjavik Food Festival this september http://fullborgmatar.is/Default.asp?Page=276

I fricking love Icelend and the icelandics, and Reykjavik is a really fun city where plenty of drinking is done.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

There's some very strange foods you can eat there too (rather you than me)

http://food-nutrition.knoji.com/10-weird-and-strange-foods-from-iceland/

[t8yman]

I like the look of the Logrono San Mateo wine festival.

I like the look of all of them tbh, but its not my choice

[Pogues Mcgogues]

There's alo the Berlin beer fest in august but perhaps too big for what you want.

[grumpyhack]

Shrimp Festival, Honfleur, France

October

One of the few remaining old-style ports in Normandy, Honfleur has kept its belle epoque charms and really comes alive when thousands of people descend on the town to join in the great shrimp-peeling competition. There's plenty of other local produce on offer; bottles of Calvados and cider, stalls selling cheese and fresh meats and, of course, sumptuous cakes, sweets and breads. The nautical theme is amplified by performances of sea-shanties and a gathering of old sea vessels in the picturesque port.

STAY: La Maison de Lucie (00 33 23114 4040; www.lamaisondelucie.com) is all antique French style with a delightful courtyard garden

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Came across this which adds to the list of possibles. Has mostly dates for 2011 but can only assume a search would bring up 2012 dates.

http://blog.hotelclub.com/top-20-food-and-wine-fests-in-europe/