This is the Brussels Beer City Podcast Diaspora Season: Chapter 1 - Ireland’s Unofficial Embassies.

The centrality of the pub to Irish social life - and by extension, the pint too - may be clichéd, but it’s not any less true. In fact, it might even be more true for Ireland’s emigrants.

In Brussels, though it may not hold the global allure it once did, the Irish pub remains a fixture of the Irish emigrant experience. Everyone’s got their favourite pub, and their own pub stories. Including the Irish ambassador. 

Click here to read the accompanying article.

The Brussels Beer City Podcast: Diaspora Season is about Brussels’ immigrant communities and the places they love to drink. 

From ice cold Sagres with piglet sandwiches and pintjes in bruine kroegen, to creamy pints, fried plantains, and more, the podcast will explore the drinking cultures of just a small slice of Brussels’ diaspora communities.

Read about the project here.