RDS Craft Beer Festival Sep 4-7

irish_goat

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

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

Lovely Bloke

Will be there!

BMJD

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

oblivious

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

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

Can we, can we, can we???

Uriel.

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

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.

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

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

Uriel. wrote: »

? Huh? I am in slow mode today.

Just checked the link and noticed this:.

*Usually* its one glass per person

Ronan|Raven

Looking forward to it.

quadrifoglio verde

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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.

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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

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

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.

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Heroditas wrote: »

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

Totally, that would make a huge difference.

Heroditas

nm wrote: »

Totally, that would make a huge difference.

And buxom beer wenches!!

Losty Dublin

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

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

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

irish_goat

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

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

That's a savage list.

The first year there was only about 15.