How To Brew Beer With LEGO Bricks?

Be that stout or lager, easy-peasy, LEGO squeezy, pour it in a glass, say cheers, and…

Attila Vágó
Bricks n’ Brackets
7 min readMay 12, 2023

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Hold on for a hoppy second there! I can’t possibly be suggesting that beer, both stout or lager, can be made with LEGO bricks, can I? Yes, I can. That’s precisely what I’m suggesting. What I’m not recommending is that you drink it. That, I definitely don’t advise. Please don’t drink the two beers I am about to introduce to you. That would be very bad, and would leave me a couple of thousand LEGO bricks short. 🤣

Part of a growing list of LEGO MOCs I wanted to build, I had two somewhat unusual, dare I say, original ideas — build some LEGO beer. Everyone knows I love discovering new beers, and it sounded like both a fun idea and one I had all the necessary pieces for, so I did just that. I built a stout — let’s call it Guinness — and a lager — let’s call it undefined horse-piss, which is what most lagers are. 😈 Brand doesn’t really matter though, as long as they’re served in the right glass, which I totally didn’t have, so, believe it or not, I went down to the shop and bought a Guinness glass and a traditional unbranded tankard.

Now that I had something to pour my beer into, I had another problem. No self-respecting beer drinker drinks beer without a beer mat, so I found myself having to

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Attila Vágó
Bricks n’ Brackets

Staff software engineer, tech writer, author and opinionated human. LEGO and Apple fan. Accessibility advocate. Life enthusiast. Living in Dublin, Ireland. ☘️