Beer as a whole and in our view, especially craft beer is a very strong social lubricant.
We fell in love with Mad Scientist’s beers attending their co-sponsored craft beer festival in Budapest in 2018. It was held in the courtyard of Fözdepark, a 19th century Gothic style brewery which at the time housed Horizont, HopTop, Monyo and Mad Scientist. White Stork at the time was the only Bulgarian brewery to be invited and we tagged along to help serve and boy was it fun!
There, housed in a HUGE camper-van was a team serving Mad Scientist and they were on fire, rock and roll style handing out double IPAs, Fruited Sours and Mango laced milk shake Pale Ales. Interestingly most of the team we met then, Vivienne, Marton, Greg, Tamas et al, still work for the brewery and many of you must have met them at the PCIB craft beer festival in Sofia or Bansko in the past episodes. This says a lot about their work ethic and team strength.
The name gives it away, Mad Scientist loves to thrive on innovation. In 2016 the founding members Csaba Tarján, Tamás Szilágyi and Gergő Závodszky wanted ingredients and beer recipes to stand out. So much so that today apart from their core beers reaching core status (ie. Liquid Cocaine, Mango Bay or even Tokyo Lemonade) they have Launched a Small Barrel series of stouts, Mead Scientist as a brand with multiple releases of single fruit Braggots and have in our view a pretty strong barrel aged wild ale program through MadX. Most of these beer series you may find on-line or in our stores in Sofia & Bansko.
So it is our pleasure to host the Mad Scientist Showcase on 6th June and we hope you all will give a warm welcome to Laszlo & Gergo who will be attending from the brewery!
Cheers!
from PIVOTEKA
