Deveneys Beer Festival 2010 - 20th Aug @ The Pod

Is this the beer festival in farmleigh? I missed it the last 2 years and said i was definitely going to go this year!

Sorry for bringing up this old thread.

There were a few comments about the
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.

I don't want to name the festival or put up a link myself as I imagine that blatant advertising isn't welcome here and I won't give any more details whatsoever bar our proposed beer list and pricing (the beer list is not finalised although these would be the prices in line with other years):

All of these would be €4 a bottle and you can buy six vouchers for €20 --- NOT ripping people off but giving serious value. 330 or 300 ml bottles unless stated otherwise:

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

We would love to serve the following at this price also but it looks like we might have to price it at €5 and we're not sure how this works with a coupon yet:
West Kerry Brewery: Porter, Dark Ale, Golden Ale 500 ml bottles

Tom Crean's Irish Premium Lager --- no information on price maybe something like €4.25?

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.

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