3. BELGRADE BEER FEST

Belgrade Beer Fest is on average, the biggest beer festival in Southeastern Europe. Within 5 days in August, over 500.000 people visit the festival. The large number of visitors is mostly due to basic festival principles: free entrance, an exceptional music program, and a wide range of foreign and domestic beer brands.

Belgrade Beer Fest was founded in year 2003. In thirteen years of its existence over 7.2 million visitors could have seen more than 570 music performances, tasted more than 300 beer brands and participated in numerous social campaigns. Some of the artists: Orthodox Celts, Van Gogh, Cassidy's Brewery Del, Arno Band , Zemlja Gruva  Enormna Blajsna Goran Grbić Dixi Band, Grupa Beograd Artan Lili, Transeen Love Hunters, The Somethings Couple Up & Bege Fank, Soul Trains, Eva Braun, Svi Na Pod,  Ničim Izazvan,  Igor Vince, etc.

In the first five years Belgrade Beer Fest was located at Kalemegdan Fortress. From 2011 Belegrade Beer Fest moved to Usce Park. The festival is held annually over 4 to 5 days  as a showcase event for various beer producers. In addition to domestic and foreign brews, the festival features live music performances each evening. Different kind of music was played: rock, pop, world music, electronic music.

It has quickly grown in size and popularity: in 2004, it attracted over 75,000 foreign visitors to Belgrade and in 2005 it was the second most visited festival in Serbia with 300,000 visitors. In 2009 it attracted more than 650,000 visitors, and in 2010 the festival attracted about 900,000 visitors

Awards:

The festival has received numerous awards. One of them is the recommendation of the British newspaper "The Independent", which ranked Belgrade Beer Fest  in year 2005, among 20 world events that must be visited. Professor Dennis Wilcox, in his book, "PR Strategies and Tactics" which is being used in over 350 universities around the globe, stated Belgrade Beer Fest as a positive example of marketing and PR campaign. With regard to large social campaign "I choose to recycle", whose aims were the strengthening of the environmental awareness of citizens and the purchasing of recycling containers for Belgrade schools, marketing magazine "Taboo" awarded the Festival as the marketing event of the year 2009.

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Owing to all the mentioned, Belgrade Beer Fest established itself as one of the most important segments of the tourist offer of Serbia, as well as a brand that promotes our country and strengthens its image.

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The award "Best of Serbia" that the Festival got for 2014 edition is the best proof of that.

Action "Best of Serbia" has been oganized, since 2004, by Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia and daily economic newspaper "Privredni pregled", with the goal to promote the most successful brands on the Serbian market.