RDS Craft Beer Festival Sep 4-7

irish_goat · 01-08-2014 12:08pm #1

Back again in the RDS again this year.

Info is available @ http://www.irishcraftbeerfestival.ie/

Also, Beoir will be giving away a few pairs of tickets on our Facebook page so keep checking closer to the time.

If you've not been before I'd really recommend it, always great craic and plenty of great beer on offer. I'll be floating between the Beoir stand and the Metalman bar so feel free to say hello.

Creamy Goodness · 01-08-2014 12:28pm

damn i'm going to miss this, I'm going to be in San Francisco

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Lovely Bloke · 01-08-2014 12:58pm

Will be there!

BMJD · 01-08-2014 2:36pm

looking forward to this, I hope they have a few extra seats & tables this year

oblivious · 01-08-2014 2:56pm

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

damn i'm going to miss this, I'm going to be in San Francisco .

Oooh poor you, its such a good beer desert over there :pac:

the beer revolu · 01-08-2014 3:05pm

Can we have a big row again about the price??

Can we, can we, can we???

Uriel. · 01-08-2014 3:09pm

I'll be there anyway for my third successive year. Hopefully the upward momentum will continue and the festival will continue to improve.

I am guessing it'll be the usual €10 entry, €2.50 a half pint and €5 a pint.

EDIT: Please get a different Glass - I have 8 or 9 of the exact same in the press now :pac:

oblivious · 01-08-2014 3:11pm

Uriel. wrote: »

EDIT: Please get a different Glass - I have 8 or 9 of the exact same in the press now :pac:

But you have only been to others..................:D

Uriel. · 01-08-2014 3:14pm

oblivious wrote: »

But you have only been to others..................:D

? Huh? I am in slow mode today.

Just checked the link and noticed this:

Half pints are €2.50; 7%+ beers are poured to the 2/3's mark.

Was that always the case? I didn't experience such last year.

irish_goat · 01-08-2014 3:25pm

Uriel. wrote: »

Was that always the case? I didn't experience such last year.

It wasn't but I'd imagine the brewers requested it as they'd not make much profit (if any) selling pints of 7% ABV stuff for a fiver. It should encourage the brewers to bring more strong beers now.

oblivious · 01-08-2014 3:34pm

Uriel. wrote: »

? Huh? I am in slow mode today.

Just checked the link and noticed this:.

*Usually* its one glass per person

Ronan|Raven · 01-08-2014 4:03pm

Looking forward to it.

quadrifoglio verde · 01-08-2014 11:17pm

Looking forward to it as well, but won't be bringing as much money with me this year....Oh my head, my head it was so sore the next morning:o

Lovely Bloke · 01-08-2014 11:36pm

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

Looking forward to it as well, but won't be bringing as much money with me this year....Oh my head, my head it was so sore the next morning:o

me and my sister crashed a wedding after leaving the RDS last year

and my wife at home pregnant at the time, haha, we've the kid now, so in two minds on whether to bring him or not.

Of course, at the moment he only drinks homebrew milk, none of the macro formula shíte :pac:

quadrifoglio verde · 01-08-2014 11:44pm

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

me and my sister crashed a wedding after leaving the RDS last year

and my wife at home pregnant at the time, haha, we've the kid now, so in two minds on whether to bring him or not.

Of course, at the moment he only drinks homebrew milk, none of the macro formula shíte :pac:

I bet she was pissed with yee when you came back, although crashing the wedding would have been good. I don't remember much after it, except waking up in the wrong town, having overslept on the night link home

Lovely Bloke · 01-08-2014 11:51pm

She wasn't, sure she'd bought the Groupon Deal for us, then we got the good news and she unfortunately couldn't go.

Little lad will be four and a half months come September, should be old enough to look after himself while his mam and dad head off to the beer festival.

Unless Ciaran76 is finished with his Hop Randall.

ciaran76 · 02-08-2014 9:34am

My other half was 7months gone last year and myself and my mates ended up with Kinsale and the Mulligans lads and this resulted in us being very tired and emotional.

We ended up at someones birthday party in Hogans in town.

The other half is looking forward to being able to go this year.

She heard all the hop Randall stories.

Heroditas · 02-08-2014 5:41pm

Uriel. wrote: »

? Huh? I am in slow mode today.

Just checked the link and noticed this:

Was that always the case? I didn't experience such last year.

They only did that for Sierra Nevada Hoptimum last year.

I'm away until the Saturday evening so will only make the Sunday. 12-6 is just too short a time for such a great event. Gutted.

Bloody holidays

nxbyveromdwjpg · 02-08-2014 5:44pm

Really disappointed with this last year, I thought it would be like an Oktoberfest with craft beers, but it was no craic at all, more like an expo than a festival, hardly any seating and what seating there was was like office chairs.
Band seemed to hardly ever be on too, and when they were were the sound was low and poor.

Weird event, they could do it so much better.

Heroditas · 02-08-2014 6:12pm

nm wrote: »

Really disappointed with this last year, I thought it would be like an Oktoberfest with craft beers, but it was no craic at all, more like an expo than a festival, hardly any seating and what seating there was was like office chairs.
Band seemed to hardly ever be on too, and when they were were the sound was low and poor.

Weird event, they could do it so much better.

I can only speak for myself but the quieter the band is, the better.
I'm there to drink beer and chat with mates. If the band is any louder, it will drown everything else out due to the acoustics in the Serpentine Hall.

nxbyveromdwjpg · 02-08-2014 6:37pm

Heroditas wrote: »

I can only speak for myself but the quieter the band is, the better.
I'm there to drink beer and chat with mates. If the band is any louder, it will drown everything else out due to the acoustics in the Serpentine Hall.

I wouldn't want it to be like a concert either, but this was just some bad sound in the corner of a room coming on and off at different intervals, to people that were awkwardly standing around with no tables for their plastic glasses.

They could at least have put out a few big tables.

Anyway, hopefully it improves.

quadrifoglio verde · 02-08-2014 6:40pm

nm wrote: »

I wouldn't want it to be like a concert either, but this was just some bad sound in the corner of a room coming on and off at different intervals, to people that were awkwardly standing around with no tables for their plastic glasses.

They could at least have put out a few big tables.

Anyway, hopefully it improves.

They could have had the place covered in seats and you'd still have the problem of people standing around, or sitting on the ground as we did.
We had a great time at it, few Friends having a chat

Heroditas · 02-08-2014 6:54pm

nm wrote: »

I wouldn't want it to be like a concert either, but this was just some bad sound in the corner of a room coming on and off at different intervals, to people that were awkwardly standing around with no tables for their plastic glasses.

They could at least have put out a few big tables.

Anyway, hopefully it improves.

Yeah I'd like to see some long benches, similar to a Bierhalle.

nxbyveromdwjpg · 02-08-2014 7:55pm

Heroditas wrote: »

Yeah I'd like to see some long benches, similar to a Bierhalle.

Totally, that would make a huge difference.

Heroditas · 02-08-2014 8:09pm

nm wrote: »

Totally, that would make a huge difference.

And buxom beer wenches!!

Losty Dublin · 02-08-2014 10:05pm

nm wrote: »

I wouldn't want it to be like a concert either, but this was just some bad sound in the corner of a room coming on and off at different intervals, to people that were awkwardly standing around with no tables for their plastic glasses.

They could at least have put out a few big tables.

Anyway, hopefully it improves.

I went last year with the quare wan and a friend, neither of who would be craft beer quaffers. One thing we found from standing was that we were inclined to move from brewer to brewer and try some of the many beers and food stalls on hand. Had we have found seats there's no way in the world that we'd have mingled around as much as we did. Having been to a few other exhibitions over the years, seats and tables are few and far between and if anything, they get in the way as a whole.

irish_goat · 18-08-2014 11:45am

List of stalls that are so far confirmed.

1. 5 Lamps
2. Armagh Cider
3. Barrelhead
4. Black Donkey
5. Black’s
6. Blackstairs
7. Bo Bristle
8. BRU
9. Carrig
10. Costello
11. Cotton Ball
12. Dan Kelly’s Cider
13. Dingle
14. Dj’s Juice and Ciders
15. Dungarvan
16. Eight Degrees
17. Founders
18. Franciscan Well
19. Galway Bay
20. Galway Hooker
21. Hilden
22. Independent
23. Jack Cody’s
24. Jack Doyle’s
25. JW Sweetmans
26. Kinnegar
27. Lefevre Cidre
28. Mac Ivors Cider
29. Metalman
30. Mountainman
31. N17
32. Nine White Deer
33. O’Hara’s
34. Porter House & Dingle Spirits
35. Rascals
36. Rye River
37. Scotts Irish Cider
38. Stonebarrell
39. Stonewell Cider
40. Teeling Whiskey Co.
41. The White Hag
42. Toby’s Cider
43. Trouble
44. West Kerry
45. White Gypsy
46. White Water

drumswan · 18-08-2014 4:05pm

Are Founders actually coming over or is some distributor with their bottles?

irish_goat · 18-08-2014 5:39pm

drumswan wrote: »

Are Founders actually coming over or is some distributor with their bottles?

It's probably just Wally from Grand Cru, he did the Sierra Nevada stall last year; it had kegs.

matrim · 18-08-2014 5:45pm

Just off the top of my head these are the guys who weren't there last year

4. Black Donkey
6. Blackstairs
10. Costello
11. Cotton Ball
12. Dan Kelly’s Cider
14. Dj’s Juice and Ciders
19. Galway Bay
22. Independent
23. Jack Cody’s
24. Jack Doyle’s
27. Lefevre Cidre
31. N17
32. Nine White Deer
35. Rascals
36. Rye River
37. Scotts Irish Cider
38. Stonebarrell
41. The White Hag
42. Toby’s Cider
46. White Water

Not 100% sure on Stonebarrell and Independent.

This is Galway Bay's first time at the RDS beer fest isn't it?

Big Nasty · 18-08-2014 5:46pm

That's a savage list.

The first year there was only about 15.

BeerNut · 18-08-2014 5:53pm

matrim wrote: »

This is Galway Bay's first time at the RDS beer fest isn't it?

Galway Bay were there last year, as were Whitewater, and DJs (aka Tempted?).

irish_goat · 18-08-2014 5:55pm

Oh and good news, Beoir have 2 pairs of tickets to give away for this. I'll be raffling one off on the Facebook page but I've checked with the mods and they've said I can give one out in this thread as well. So if you want included in the draw just mention that you're going and I'll throw everyone's name into the hat closer to the time.

BeerNut · 18-08-2014 6:01pm

Shill!

quadrifoglio verde · 18-08-2014 6:43pm

irish_goat wrote: »

Oh and good news, Beoir have 2 pairs of tickets to give away for this. I'll be raffling one off on the Facebook page but I've checked with the mods and they've said I can give one out in this thread as well. So if you want included in the draw just mention that you're going and I'll throw everyone's name into the hat closer to the time.

Ill be heading....

on a side note, Ive just joined Beoir, does anyone know how I get half price tickets, figured the membership benefits certainly outweighed the cost:p

BaZmO* · 18-08-2014 6:44pm

irish_goat wrote: »

Oh and good news, Beoir have 2 pairs of tickets to give away for this. I'll be raffling one off on the Facebook page but I've checked with the mods and they've said I can give one out in this thread as well. So if you want included in the draw just mention that you're going and I'll throw everyone's name into the hat closer to the time.

As a mod of this forum, where do I pick up my free tickets? At the door?

It's some list of brewers though, I'll have to be a bit more tactical trying to get through all the specials!

matrim · 18-08-2014 6:55pm

BeerNut wrote: »

Galway Bay were there last year, as were Whitewater, and DJs (aka Tempted?).

Wasn't sure about Whitewater. I don't drink much cider but didn't recognise the DJ name.

Shows how much we've come along that there are nearly as many new breweries this year as there were breweries some years.

I wonder ifl the brewery stands will be smaller this year to fit in the extra people.

irish_goat, throw me into the ring for those tickets too. Hope to go on both Friday and Sunday again this year

nuckeythompson · 18-08-2014 7:02pm

irish_goat wrote: »

Oh and good news, Beoir have 2 pairs of tickets to give away for this. I'll be raffling one off on the Facebook page but I've checked with the mods and they've said I can give one out in this thread as well. So if you want included in the draw just mention that you're going and I'll throw everyone's name into the hat closer to the time.

count me in, ill be going for sure

Losty Dublin · 18-08-2014 7:04pm

I'm going at some stage. Should I win, please pass on my ticket to somebody deserving so they can experience craft beer as well.

Zaph · 18-08-2014 7:09pm

BaZmO* wrote: »

As a mod of this forum, where do I pick up my free tickets? At the door?

As an admin I'm pulling rank and I'll have his ticket. :P

Enjoyed it last year, I presume with all the extra stands it'll be in a bigger hall or spread over a couple this year?

Ronan|Raven · 18-08-2014 7:45pm

Will be going along. A great lineup. I will need to try and pace myself. Saturday will be a long day!

banjopaul · 18-08-2014 8:14pm

irish_goat wrote: »

Oh and good news, Beoir have 2 pairs of tickets to give away for this. I'll be raffling one off on the Facebook page but I've checked with the mods and they've said I can give one out in this thread as well. So if you want included in the draw just mention that you're going and I'll throw everyone's name into the hat closer to the time.

I'm heading, name in the hat please!

Heroditas · 18-08-2014 8:36pm

Could you throw my name in the hat as well please?

Big Nasty · 18-08-2014 8:41pm

Any chance we could do PM's for the ticket lottery? It's gonna clog up the thread.

BeerNut · 18-08-2014 9:20pm

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

does anyone know how I get half price tickets

Show your card on the door. I don't think the festival has ever filled up to the point where we've had to stop admitting walk-ins, but it's probably best to get there early to be safe.

Losty Dublin · 18-08-2014 9:38pm

Big Nasty wrote: »

That's a savage list.

The first year there was only about 15.

And there are a fair few brewers in Ireland who are not listed as well.

Lovely Bloke · 18-08-2014 9:54pm

name on the list please!

Uriel. · 18-08-2014 10:15pm

name on list too please

I'll be there on the Saturday either way

dazzday · 18-08-2014 10:20pm

Ill be going...had a great time at this last time! Name in the hat please!

ciaran76 · 19-08-2014 10:11am

Should be going the 5th. Might as well throw my name in the hat too.
Thanks.

RasTa · 19-08-2014 10:37am

Yeah throw my name on the list, good few of us going on Saturday either way.

RDS Craft Beer Festival Sep 4-7

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