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RDS Craft Beer Festival 2015
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Well impressed last night!
Loved the new layout at the festival. More brewery's in the same room and having the deals makes it easier to find the beer that you want. Also, the quiet/food area makes a nice oasis from the arena and the music inside was quieter and less intrusive and it made the night a lot easier.
There's loads of ciders on tap and plenty of spirits on the go so non beer drinkers are well provided for. And for the novice/casual drinker, well you have a lot of mid range beers to go with.
Just on the Growler people, the RDS isn't licences for off sales so there wasn't much point in their being there sales wise. Doubtless they were floating around to network with new lines of supply just not visibly to Joe public.
And of the beer that I had? I was very impressed with Dungarvan. A pile of gravity casks to rotate for the weekend plus they have a traditional two pour hand pumped stout; one old and one young cask.
Kinnegar as always never let me down and while Geuzberry was much sought I went with and loved the Swingletree, a real supper that's disguised as a sessioner.
Trouble Brewing have a cherry Dark Arts on cask, West Kerry have some wonderful fruit flavoured brews but the pick for me was Radic Ale and Curious. Drink it with a clean palate, there's tons of flavours complementing each other.
Two other things I liked, a table of people knitting and supping beer and, to give them their due, Tom Crean pulled out all stops with their bar
Roll on next year!0 -
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The worst of posts like this is that I am now ruing dozens of beers
Ravelleman wrote: »I enjoyed myself last night. There was a great crowd for the first night and I liked the layout of the hall. It felt nice and full, and the covered outside area was a good call.
I paid the additional €2 for the stem glass and felt that it added a certain je ne sais quoi to my beer drinking.
I tried only four full measures while I was there but also had a number of tasters and sips from my father's selections. In general I decided to go for the festival specials when available, rather than more conventional brews. Some were disappointing, others quite good. Today I will just go for the things I want, instead of what I cannot normally get.
8 Degrees Oktoberfest Bock was bland but perhaps this is just the nature of the bock style. Given that they make so many excellent, flavoursome beers I think there are much better options at that stand.
Dungarvan's strong ale in the gravity cask was certainly full-bodied but far too sweet for my taste. My father also agreed. I'm quite interested to try the mix of young and old Black Rock today.
West Kerry's elderflower porter was a taste experience. The porter was quite dry and sharp and was more or less balanced by the relative sweetness of the elderflower. I would personally have preferred a sweeter base but that might have been too cloying.
Mountain Man's blueberry wheat (?) beer was quite subtle and didn't too much fruitiness going on. Overall I felt it was a relatively mediocre wheat beer with a hint of something else.
Black's sour brown ale was probably the best of all the beers I had - brown and sour, just like its name.0 -
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Losty Dublin wrote: »The worst of posts like this is that I am now ruing dozens of beers
Missed beers, you mean?0 -
Ravelleman wrote: »Missed beers, you mean?
Brewers and beers. I did 12 halfs last night and I like to to try and sample one of each from as many Brewers as possible, ideally not regular beers I can get in bars and off sales. Even with a few samples along the way, you will miss loads and it makes me pine 0 -
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