RDS craft beer festival 2018

sidders

Hi,

Anybody have any new if this event is taking place, My annual pilgrimage to the RDS to get nice n toasty on craft beer doesnt appear to be on.

or has anyone missed the ball and accidentally forget to hit to advertise button?!?!

Any way .... any news is welcomed

verycool

Won't be going to this one after I thought the last was a bit crap, but this was tweeted four days ago.

https://twitter.com/IrishBeerFest/status/1035581226831306752

verycool

Mckinley Yummy Llama wrote: »

I usually go every year but missed the last - and I have heard similar brief but negative reviews. Was there anything specifically wrong or just generally crap ?

Few personal gripes, like sh*tty plastic cups, flimsy paper tokens (it's almost like they were on purpose so people would lose them / buy more), stupid amount of floor space given to Jameson (my guess is Pernod Ricard chucked them more money!) which resulted in far less seating and other breweries crammed beside each other... leading to longer queuing times, less chats with the brewers.



I'm intrigued to where this "new venue" is though! My guess is it'll be the Convention Centre, that's where the alltech one is held.


http://www.alltechbrews.ie/

EDIT: Come to think, this might have been the one two years ago! :pac:

Dramatik

I can see plastic cups as being a pain alright, never went to one of these as I expected it to be predominantly craft ale which I'm not a fan of, I'm more a fan of the the German Weiss beer 'maisel's' etc. Is there much of that kind of beer there? Or is it all Irish stuff?

basskebab

Checked their website today and they put up info on where it's on -

http://www.irishcraftbeerfestival.ie/2018-pop-up/

It's the cricket club in Rathmines - http://lccsports.net/contact-us/location/

Wonder what the capacity is there? it sounds like a much smaller affair, especially when you look at the list of brewers - Trouble Brewing, Bridewell, Black's, Porterhouse & Dingle Gin/Vodka, Craigies, White Hag, Boyne, Wicklow Brewing, Priory, Micil, St Patrick's Distillery and O'Hara's of course!
International favourites including Sierra Nevada!

verycool

basskebab wrote: »

Checked their website today and they put up info on where it's on -

http://www.irishcraftbeerfestival.ie/2018-pop-up/

It's the cricket club in Rathmines - http://lccsports.net/contact-us/location/

Wonder what the capacity is there? it sounds like a much smaller affair, especially when you look at the list of brewers - Trouble Brewing, Bridewell, Black's, Porterhouse & Dingle Gin/Vodka, Craigies, White Hag, Boyne, Wicklow Brewing, Priory, Micil, St Patrick's Distillery and O'Hara's of course!
International favourites including Sierra Nevada!

Oh dear!

Extra 25e (plus 3.13e in fees) if you want to get five extra half pints included in the Friday and Saturday ticket packages. Does that imply that this is a "deal" and that half pints are going to be more expensive than 3e each (taking in to account that a day ticket is 10e)?!

Rip off.

Sierra Nevada is good and all, but why keep including gin / vodka at an "Irish craft beer fest".

Cloudio9

Mckinley Yummy Llama wrote: »

Yeah, I'm out. Location is inconvenient for me for a start, I agree there has been an increasing preponderance of spirits being pushed and in any case, I prefer cask ales which have been in very short supply in previous years. Looks like I will have to check out some UK events instead.

There’s a cask ale festival held in Belfast every November in the Ulster hall which is very central.

noby

Cloudio9 wrote: »

There’s a cask ale festival held in Belfast every November in the Ulster hall which is very central.

And one in the Fran Well in Cork in January.