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Beer Fest 2018

  • 16-09-2018 4:22pm
    #1
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 12,950 ✭✭✭✭


    A new venue and new format for 2018. No information on who will be there on the website but it's likely to be missing some of the Mayo heads will miss it as there is a festival in Ballina that same weekend.

    http://www.irishcraftbeerfestival.ie/info/


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  • #2
    Tenzor07
    Registered Users Posts: 8,407 ✭✭✭Tenzor07


    A pop up tent in the cricket pitch Rathmines in late September??

    No thanks!

    I didn't see what was wrong with the RDS, perfectly fine venue, loads of room to move around and get to all the stands, and had good facilities too, I guess now you have to go in the bushes...

    And this is from someone who's been to this beer fest since it started...


  • #3
    verycool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭verycool


    Couldn't be ar$ed typing out my reply again so I'll just link to it! :pac:

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057906375


  • #4
    Tenzor07
    Registered Users Posts: 8,407 ✭✭✭Tenzor07


    verycool wrote: »
    Couldn't be ar$ed typing out my reply again so I'll just link to it! :pac:

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057906375

    Didn't see that, but yea I agree, the organisers must be losing the run of themselves...


  • #5
    BeerNut
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,776 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    Tenzor07 wrote: »
    I didn't see what was wrong with the RDS, perfectly fine venue,
    Except if they tell you they don't want to host your beer festival any more you can't have it there.

    My beer blog | The Twitter | My other beer blog



  • #6
    Tenzor07
    Registered Users Posts: 8,407 ✭✭✭Tenzor07


    BeerNut wrote: »
    Except if they tell you they don't want to host your beer festival any more you can't have it there.

    Had to be a reason I guess!

    Too bad it's gone from there, won't be the same in a tent with a small number of brewers attending..


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  • #7
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    BeerNut wrote: »
    Except if they tell you they don't want to host your beer festival any more you can't have it there.

    Strange decision after many years, some with two outings a year. I'll never get to use those left over RDS branded tokens from last year then!


  • #8
    n97 mini
    Registered Users Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭n97 mini


    BeerNut wrote: »
    Except if they tell you they don't want to host your beer festival any more you can't have it there.

    I wonder about that. Someone I know contacted the RDS about having a beer festival there a few years back... they answer was "we already have two, we don't want a third"

    And now they have none.

    If I was a skeptic, I'd say dwindling breweries and dwindling crowds was the real reason, now that Alltech seems to be the top dog when it comes to beer festivals in Dublin.


  • #9
    oblivious
    Registered Users Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭oblivious


    n97 mini wrote: »
    now that Alltech seems to be the top dog when it comes to beer festivals in Dublin.

    a lot of alltechs exhibitors are distributed by them,


  • #10
    slayerking
    Registered Users Posts: 1,276 ✭✭✭slayerking


    I did find the RDS festival go a little down hill over recent years.

    Will they have proper, non plastic glasses, thats what I want to know.


  • #11
    irish_goat
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 5,760 Mod ✭✭✭✭irish_goat


    O'Hara's have been advertising metal festival glasses on Twitter this summer so I'd guess that's what will be handed out.


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  • #12
    BeerNut
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,776 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    I bet there are boxes and boxes of the polycarbonate ones left over from last year and that's what they'll use.

    My beer blog | The Twitter | My other beer blog



  • #13
    BaZmO*
    Registered Users Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    They’ve confirmed that they’re plastic cups. List looks a bit underwhelming too.


  • #14
    Technocentral
    Registered Users Posts: 6,101 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    Going later, hope its good, enjoyed last years. If I find 2or 3 new ones I like from this ill be happy:
    Bridewell

    Bridewell Blond
    Bridewell Red
    Bridewell Kölsch-style

    Third Barrell

    Stone Barrel – Mojo – IPA
    Third Circle – Neon Wilderness – Funky IPA
    Third Barrel

    Boyne Brewhouse

    Cooney’s Cider
    Dortmunder Lager
    Vienna Lager
    Pale Ale
    IPA
    Oatmeal Stout
    American Pale Ale
    Raspberry Sour
    Belgian Blonde
    Imperial Stout

    Blacks

    Superdry Brut IPA
    Pineapple weed botanical IPA
    RedHead Red IPA
    Model T Stout
    Kinsale Pale Ale
    COCKTAILS
    Blacks Gin cocktails
    Blacks Rum Cocktails
    Blacks Whiskey cocktails
    Blacks Cherry Bounce Moonshine

    Rye River

    Miami J IPA
    Belgian Imperial Stout
    Ól Orange Lager

    O’Hara’s

    Lublin to Dublin Turkish Coffee Stout
    Leann Follain
    Irish Red Nitro
    51st State IPA
    Hop Adventure Eureka
    51st State Session IPA
    Irish Lager
    OPsession IPA

    Wicklow Brewery

    Wicklow Helles
    St. Kevin's red
    Wicklow Weiss
    Wb40
    Hopknut
    Gingerknut
    Barrel aged chocolate & coconut infused with cherries

    Porterhouse

    Early Ryzer Citrus IPA
    Slurpasaurus Tropical IPA
    Celebration Stout
    COCKTAILS
    Gin & Tonic
    Dingle Raspberry Gin Fizz
    Ginito
    Dingle Donkey
    Vodka & Mixer

    Trouble

    Sabotage IPA
    Vietnow IPA
    Backstop Session IPA
    Pale Ales
    Graffiti Session Pale Ale
    Ambush Juicy Pale Ale
    Panti Pale Ale
    Lagers
    Last Crash Passion Fruit Lager
    Park Life Lager
    Porters
    Dark Arts Nitro Porter

    Cask
    Pumpkin Brew

    Falling Apple

    Falling Apple Cider
    Falling Apple Raspberry & Elderflower Cider

    Brewdog

    Jet Trash – West Coast IPA
    Mallow Mafia – Imperial stout infused with cocoa nibs, cold brew coffee and marshmallows
    Small batch Maple - Maple stout
    Punk – Flagship IPA
    Elvis Juice – Grapefruit infused IPA
    Native Son – West Coast Double IPA
    8 bit - Collab with Cloudwater, Northern Monk, Deya, Magic Rock, Seventh Son, Stillwater, Artisanal, The Bruery and Brewdog for 2018 AGM
    Hazy Jane - Vermont style IPA

    Old Carrick Gin

    Old Carrick Mill and Fever Tree Elderflower Tonic, with lemon and pear.
    Carrick and Old Lace, OCMG with violette, Lillet, absinthe and lemon oils.
    Concession road buck, OCMG with grapefruit bitters, Fever Tree Ginger Beer and cucumber.
    Old Mill Gimlet, OCMG with homemade pear syrup, lemon juice and lavender aroma.

    Sierra Nevada

    Draught
    Pale
    No middle ground 
    Hop bullet
    Otra vez
    Southern gothic
    California IPA 
    Bigfoot
    Fest bier 
     
    Cans
    Southern Hemisphere hop pack
    Experimental hop pack
    Tropical torpedo 
    Torpedo

    Priory Brewing

    Original Sin IPA
    Venial Sin session IPA
    Mortal Sin Double IPA
    LAUNCHING
    Plenary Indulgence Porter

    Hope Beer

    Hop Hash DIPA
    Grunt Saison
    Session IPA
    Handsome Jack IPA
    Underdog Lager

    Internationals

    Wild Beer - Shika
    Wild Beer - Funky Dory
    Wild Beer - Ninkasi
    Gipsy Hill – Hepcat
    Gipsy Hill – Beatnik
    Bevog – Baja
    Bevog – Rudeen
    Firestone Walker – Pivo
    Firestone Walker – Easy Jack
    Stiegl – Grapefruit Radler
    Stiegl – Freibier
    Estrella Gallicia - Gluten Free Lager
    Blakstoc – Ginger for my Honey Cider
    Blakstoc – Wild Tree Hoppy Cider
    Muttermilch x O’Hara’s – Coffelia O’Hara

    Craigies

    Craigies Michellin Cider
    Craigies Ballyhook Flyer

    McGargles 

    Dec’s Brown Ale
    Francis Big Bangin’ IPA
    Daragh’s Session IPA


  • #15
    OOnegative
    Registered Users Posts: 4,834 ✭✭✭OOnegative


    Bevog Rudeen is a quality black IPA, well worth a taste.


  • #16
    wattlendaub
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭wattlendaub


    So how was it? Any use, did anyone attend, or is this event likely to die off in the next year or so?


  • #17
    baconsarnie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,154 ✭✭✭baconsarnie


    wattlendaub wrote: »
    So how was it? Any use, did anyone attend, or is this event likely to die off in the next year or so?

    I was there on the Saturday night, fleetingly.

    Worked well as a venue (for me!) in that it felt more like a festival. I always found the RDS a bit staid, but having it in a big tent (with decent music) added to a better vibe.


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