Deveneys Beer Festival 2010 - 20th Aug @ The Pod

They have Rebel Red in bottles? When did that happen? And where can I get it?

irish_goat wrote: »

That's a pretty rubbish selection of beers for a "festival". Particularly if they're all from a bottle.

"1. price of beers at beer festivals, in particular with respect to vouchers, and
2. 'non-authentic' beer festivals

There is a beer festival in West Kerry (which admittedly I am involved in) which might hold some interest for those of you concerned with 1. although I couldn't recommend it to the number 2. cohort."

It is a fundraising "Beerfest" which donates to charities and local causes. It never claims to be anything but a fun event and the main reason I brought it up here is because I think the prices are good. If you buy the Beer Vouchers you could sample the likes of bottled Rebel Red, La Trappe and Triple Chocoholic for €3.33 a bottle.

It would be our wish to improve the fare on offer to 'serious' beer drinkers but this might take a few years but it will never reach the level of a boutique beer festival because the aims are:

1. To donate money to charities and local causes
2. To put on a great event doing it

and our bread and butter is easy drinking world beers.

Jippo wrote: »

Rebel Red Bottle 500 ml
La Trappe: Quadrupel, Tripel, Dubbel, Blond
Triple Chocoholic 500 ml
500 ml Lech Bottle
500 ml Tyskie Bottle
Kirin
Tsingtao
Singha
Mac's Gold
Moosehead
Toohey's Extra Dry
Victoria Bitter
Steinlager
Desperados

It's been said, but that's a pretty poor list.

La Trappes are good, but you're shooting yourselves in the foot with that quadruple, which AFAIK is relatively expensive due to alc content & taxes etc.

Moosehead, always strikes me as the dirt cheap Canadian stuff (though I hear they do cheaper.)

Lech and Tyskie are very similar.

And Desperados doesn't sit well with me either.

Fair enough if it's a charity thing, but I think you could probably have gotten some Irish brewers in and had a more interesting/profitable event.

May just be in a daze after seeing the Deveney's line-up (and the disappointment that I didn't realise it was in 2010!)

Fewcifur wrote: »

It's been said, but that's a pretty poor list.

La Trappes are good, but you're shooting yourselves in the foot with that quadruple, which AFAIK is relatively expensive due to alc content & taxes etc.

Moosehead, always strikes me as the dirt cheap Canadian stuff (though I hear they do cheaper.)

Lech and Tyskie are very similar.

And Desperados doesn't sit well with me either.

Fair enough if it's a charity thing, but I think you could probably have gotten some Irish brewers in and had a more interesting/profitable event.

May just be in a daze after seeing the Deveney's line-up (and the disappointment that I didn't realise it was in 2010!)

Beer Menu attached:

http://annascaulbeerfest.wordpress.com/2012/06/24/the-beer-menus/

Recall that this is a charity event and while we are aware of our shortcomings with respect to the more discerning beer drinker we are making small strides year by year.

By and large our event is a 'fun' event and we aim to attract a broad spectrum of the public. This year we are donating to Kerry Respite Care. Event Guide:

http://annascaulbeerfest.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/annascaul-beerfest-event-guide.pdf