Dublin Beerfest 2011!

dazey

Are people aware of this?? It is on in the Pod on Friday 19th August ...it's never too soon to get ready for these kind of events

Berty

Aka Lughnasa Beer Festival.

www.beerfestival.ie

From the briefing I was given today It is on from 5:30pm - 10:30pm

I will be in attendance.

Black Sheep

We're going!

dazey

I can't wait. Hopefully it'll give me a chance to meet some of the beer loving boardsies on here. I am a long term reader but rarely post ...mainly because I am relatively new to the world of actually good tasting beers

KJ

How does this work? Is it like Taste of Dublin as in buying tasters?

ciaran76

Never been to it but hope to go this year.

Technocentral

Cheapskates and moaners need not apply, its for people who want to experience quality new beers from around the world, not people looking to get tanked up on huge amounts of cheap "beer".

oblivious

Technocentral wrote: »

Cheapskates and moaners need not apply, its for people who want to experience quality new beers from around the world, not people looking to get tanked up on huge amounts of cheap "beer".

Do you think there will be much or anything different that you cant pick up in one of the good beer off licences around Dublin, considering the 20 euro entrance fee?

Bigcheeze

oblivious wrote: »

Do you think there will be much or anything different that you cant pick up in one of the good beer off licences around Dublin, considering the 20 euro entrance fee?

Possibly not but it's an enjoyable atmosphere where you can taste and talk beer. The weather was great last year so a lot of people were out in the beer garden. Actually it would have been worringly overcrowded inside if it had been raining.

Most of the stalls were also fairly generous with measure sizes and all beers were priced the same so if you picked carefully you could get a decent measure of some expensive high abv beers at a good price.

I thought the entrance fee included a couple of drinks last year. Could be wrong.

BeerNut

Yeah, you got five (I think) tokens last year.

MediaTank

It was great fun last year, if a little crowded. I'll be going again.

Krusty_Clown

I would be keen to go, but also would be interested in the structure (not looking to get tanked up on cheap beer). I would rather sample lots of small portions of beer, than drink pints of a small number of beers.

You pay the entrance fee, and get vouchers for small servings of beer, and can then buy additional vouchers for additional servings of beer? Is it a mixture of draught and bottles? Do you think it be well-represented by the Irish craft brewers or a closed shop based on the organizer's typical supply chain? Can you taste a beer (tiny sample) before using a voucher for a larger portion?

I know I should ask direct, but I'm feeling lazy.

BeerNut

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

You pay the entrance fee, and get vouchers for small servings of beer, and can then buy additional vouchers for additional servings of beer?

Yes.

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

Is it a mixture of draught and bottles?

Yes

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

Do you think it be well-represented by the Irish craft brewers or a closed shop based on the organizer's typical supply chain?

Metalman will be there, Dungarvan too, I think. Pretty sure Grand Cru will have the Porterhouse stuff. Possibly more.

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

Can you taste a beer (tiny sample) before using a voucher for a larger portion?

I'd say it depends who you ask

Krusty_Clown

BeerNut wrote: »

I'd say it depends who you ask

So who should we ask?

Thanks for the concise response. I'm sold!

BeerNut

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

So who should we ask?

I would say -- and this isn't based on any sort of experience or anything -- that anyone who's there selling their own product would be happy to give you a taste, while anyone who's there as an employee of a company is more likely to play by the rules. However, it's quite possible that organisers would have imposed a strict no-free-tastes rule. I don't know.

oblivious

BeerNut wrote: »

Metalman will be there, Dungarvan too, I think. Pretty sure Grand Cru will have the Porterhouse stuff. Possibly more.

A very interesting, I though it was just a bottle event

Bigcheeze

oblivious wrote: »

A very interesting, I though it was just a bottle event

The only draught I saw was the pod's own taps but of course this year could be different.

noby

oblivious wrote: »

A very interesting, I though it was just a bottle event

It was last year, but I think it's opened up a bit more this year.

Ronan cork

i heard there will be taps this year and possibly even a limited edition cask brew from brewdog...

KJ

My girlfriend just won tickets for this on radio nova. Excellent

BeerNut

The beer list so far is up on the website here.

Technocentral

BeerNut wrote: »

The beer list so far is up on the website here.

Do you think there will be any real ale drinking babes at it?

n97 mini

Which will be better, this, or the one in the RDS in September?

Unfortunately I won't get a pass to got to both!

BeerNut

Technocentral wrote: »

Do you think there will be any real ale drinking babes at it?

It's being organised by one

schemingbohemia

wow! hadn't realised Pie Minister are going to be there. Plus they have Abstrakt from Brew Dog on the list.

Looking good.

geeky

Well, there's quite a few beers there anyway! I'm pretty excited, particularly intrigued by the bourganel ones - has anyone had them? Are they nice, or a bit gimmicky?

redalan

Hello

Are the tickets only available on the internet or can they bought elsewhere?

Cheers
Al

LaBaguette

geeky wrote: »

Well, there's quite a few beers there anyway! I'm pretty excited, particularly intrigued by the bourganel ones - has anyone had them? Are they nice, or a bit gimmicky?

Had never of them before. I'm curious as well, athough I can't say that I have good feeling about this. Verveine in beer would just be plain weird, Nougat would (at best) taste like Innis & Gunn (which I loathe) and chestnut.. if it's anywhere close to the Pietra (from Corsica), it should go down the drain.

geeky

LaBaguette wrote: »

geeky wrote: »

Well, there's quite a few beers there anyway! I'm pretty excited, particularly intrigued by the bourganel ones - has anyone had them? Are they nice, or a bit gimmicky?

Had never of them before. I'm curious as well, athough I can't say that I have good feeling about this. Verveine in beer would just be plain weird, Nougat would (at best) taste like Innis & Gunn (which I loathe) and chestnut.. if it's anywhere close to the Pietra (from Corsica), it should go down the drain.

Hmmmmm interesting take - though I like Innis & Gunn!

BeerNut

redalan wrote: »

Are the tickets only available on the internet or can they bought elsewhere?

Deveney's Dundrum.

paddyandy

If i can believe there will be some real beer there i might think about it at least.Warm beer from the wood like the kind that's impossible to get.How many know what i'm on about?Very few i imagine.

johnnyskeleton

paddyandy wrote: »

If i can believe there will be some real beer there i might think about it at least.Warm beer from the wood like the kind that's impossible to get.How many know what i'm on about?Very few i imagine.

Impossible to get? Invisible beer maybe? Otherwise that sounds like cask beer.

redalan

BeerNut wrote: »

Deveney's Dundrum.

Thanks

Bigcheeze

From what I can see, the website does not say what's included in the ticket price this year ? Anyone know?

Technocentral

paddyandy wrote: »

If i can believe there will be some real beer there i might think about it at least.Warm beer from the wood like the kind that's impossible to get.How many know what i'm on about?Very few i imagine.

One would imagine that "impossible to get" stuff will be fairly thin on the ground.

BeerNut

paddyandy wrote: »

Warm beer from the wood

Anyone serving you warm cask beer is doing it wrong.

paddyandy

Good ale/beer has a rich flavour that needs nothing at all.From wooden casks if you had a glass of it you'd never forget it.Served at room temperature.

Bigcheeze

paddyandy wrote: »

Good ale/beer has a rich flavour that needs nothing at all.From wooden casks if you had a glass of it you'd never forget it.Served at room temperature.

Does this beer have a name?

Technocentral

paddyandy wrote: »

Good ale/beer has a rich flavour that needs nothing at all.From wooden casks if you had a glass of it you'd never forget it.Served at room temperature.

Too vague to be posting on a beer forum, for example, name 2 or 3 of your favorite beers?

BeerNut

paddyandy wrote: »

From wooden casks if you had a glass of it you'd never forget it.Served at room temperature.

I've had many a beer served straight from a wooden cask. They're always better at cellar temperature, especially if the wood is fresh: too much oak can destroy beer flavours and oak flavours are even more pronounced at higher temperatures.

Asking for room temperature Kölsch or Alt from the wooden casks in Cologne or Düsseldorf respectively would make even the most taciturn Rhinelander laugh at you.

paddyandy

BeerNut wrote: »

I've had many a beer served straight from a wooden cask. They're always better at cellar temperature, especially if the wood is fresh: too much oak can destroy beer flavours and oak flavours are even more pronounced at higher temperatures.

Asking for room temperature Kölsch or Alt from the wooden casks in Cologne or Düsseldorf respectively would make even the most taciturn Rhinelander laugh at you.

You know more than i do and what is the Name on the the nearest available outlet it's worth it.I WAS fed up with all that lukazade .Good beer does'nt need a name.or chilling of any kind.Germans demurre from comment on the nonsense we call beer.

Fajitas!

That was a really good night. Well done to all involved.

Technocentral

Trouble brewing, metalman and brewdog beers were great last night, I can't remember many of the rest as I was half lit, can't believe some idiots were drinking Heineken, why weren't commercial beer taps covered for the night anyway, the industrial beer companies have the pubs for 365 days of the year why cant real beer drinkers have them for 1 or 2 nights?

johnnyskeleton

Technocentral wrote: »

Trouble brewing, metalman and brewdog beers were great last night, I can't remember many of the rest as I was half lit, can't believe some idiots were drinking Heineken, why weren't commercial beer taps covered for the night anyway, the industrial beer companies have the pubs for 365 days of the year why cant real beer drinkers have them for 1 or 2 nights?

I suppose some people would be brought along by friends to try it out. The heineken / carlsberg was presumably there in case anyone didn't like the other beers. Or mabye it was heiniken gold reserve or carlsberg trippel blonde.

To put it in perspective, many would look at your choice of brewdog, trouble brewing and metalman beers and scoff because these are ordinarily available in bull and castle, porterhouse, l mullgan grocer etc without the 20 entrance fee.

Othe than that, was there a good crowd, good selection, good atmosphere etc?

iambrazil

Technocentral wrote: »

can't believe some idiots were drinking Heineken, why weren't commercial beer taps covered for the night anyway,

because the venue wants to make as much money as possible from the event I'm imagine. if you asked them to close the bar i'm sure there would be an added cost to the venue to make up for lost sales resulting in more costs for the organisers. even if you are selling beer yourself at the event...

at the Great British Beer Festival in London a few weeks ago the venue bar was open and I saw people buying Carlsberg.

Bigcheeze

Technocentral wrote: »

Trouble brewing, metalman and brewdog beers were great last night, I can't remember many of the rest as I was half lit, can't believe some idiots were drinking Heineken, why weren't commercial beer taps covered for the night anyway, the industrial beer companies have the pubs for 365 days of the year why cant real beer drinkers have them for 1 or 2 nights?

Why do you care if some people want to drink Heineken ? It's beer too. It's fine complaining about lack of choice but please don't complain about too much choice!

Technocentral

Bigcheeze wrote: »

Why do you care if some people want to drink Heineken ? It's beer too. It's fine complaining about lack of choice but please don't complain about too much choice!

Because if I went to the Electric Picnic to hear Arcade Fire I wouldn't want Jedward on the same bill.

Bigcheeze

Technocentral wrote: »

Because if I went to the Electric Picnic to hear Arcade Fire I wouldn't want Jedward on the same bill.

Even though it had zero impact on you.

Technocentral

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

I suppose some people would be brought along by friends to try it out. The heineken / carlsberg was presumably there in case anyone didn't like the other beers. Or mabye it was heiniken gold reserve or carlsberg trippel blonde.

To put it in perspective, many would look at your choice of brewdog, trouble brewing and metalman beers and scoff because these are ordinarily available in bull and castle, porterhouse, l mullgan grocer etc without the 20 entrance fee.

Othe than that, was there a good crowd, good selection, good atmosphere etc?

I also had some other nice beers that I never heard of before but I can't remember them because we were in da 'Grain before it and I had around 4 or 5 drinks there before heading to POD!

Technocentral

Bigcheeze wrote: »

Even though it had zero impact on you.

Yep, I'm quite the fascist when it comes to beer, music and movies.

johnnyskeleton

Technocentral wrote: »

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

I suppose some people would be brought along by friends to try it out. The heineken / carlsberg was presumably there in case anyone didn't like the other beers. Or mabye it was heiniken gold reserve or carlsberg trippel blonde.

To put it in perspective, many would look at your choice of brewdog, trouble brewing and metalman beers and scoff because these are ordinarily available in bull and castle, porterhouse, l mullgan grocer etc without the 20 entrance fee.

Othe than that, was there a good crowd, good selection, good atmosphere etc?

I also had some other nice beers that I never heard of before but I can't remember them because we were in da 'Grain before it and I had around 4 or 5 drinks there before heading to POD!

I don't mean to criticse you at all - in fact I would have a similar view towards beer ie to try new beers without being too precious about it.

But I'd sound a note of caution re: criticising people who like heiniken/carlesberg. All you can really say is that you don't like them or you prefer other beers. And since you could have kept drinking beers like metalman in against the grain but decided to go to the beerfest, presumably for the event as much as te quality of the beers, so too I'm sure some people who only drink heiniken but wouldn't mind sampling something else would have gone for the event too.