SuperValu in Heuston Quarter have a good selection and you wouldn’t be confined to Galway Bay beers
Cheers for the replies. Had been thinking Brewdock for a pint but they never used to do takeaway cans (unless you paid full bar price). Good to hear there's a takeaway fridge now.
Underdog is a bit over 5 minutes from Jervis Luas, so getting off at Smithfield for Fidelity would be handier for the Luas, I think - but I'm not sure if Fidelity has a fridge for can sales. Brewdog is directly adjacent to the Luas, so probably best bet.
Just walked by brew dock, fridge of GBB cans for takeaway, core range is cheap enough, seasonals a little pricier.
Brew Dock do have takeout of GBB cans, cold
In terms of being near the Luas and the least out of your way, Brew Dock would probably be your best bet.
They have a fairly well-stocked fridge but you may need to pay bar prices...last time I was there I didn't notice a takeaway fridge but I'm open to correction
Depends on how much time @irish_goat has. Neither are that close to a Luas if you are trying to maximise time.
I was in Stoneybatter properly for the first time last week and I do understand why it would be a very interesting place to be if you were a Dublin resident I wouldn't recommend it for a "tourist" like myself.
Both of those are good options.
They have a fridge,
could always dip into brew dock if they still have a GBB takeout fridge?
Fresh supermarket in Smithfield have craft beer (not sure about cold though)
Underdog at the top of Capel Street or possibly Drinkstore on Manor Street.
Will be in the big smoke next weekend going from Connolly to Heuston. Is there anywhere in between handy to grab a few (cold) cans? Will possibly stop at Fidelity for 1 but won't have time to go walking too far out of the way.
Amex has two local independents - Harvey's and someone else, it was Dark Star when they were indie, and still existed - plus nearly always a local independent or craft to the visiting teams area. This is despite being a Heineken stadium otherwise.
I think Croke Park is Diageo. Pretty sure I was drinking Carlsberg there and the GAA would have a long history with Guinness.
It is Heineken in Pairc Ui Chaoimh of course. Can't be having Guinness down there.
The only stadium I ever remember having craft beer was Cronx in Selhurst Park which was in spite of Crystal Palace having a big MC sponsorship deal.
I'm going to try dig up the NINETEEN SIXTIES state document I found claiming that the big breweries in Ireland - there were only three then as now, but a slightly different lineup of Guinness Limited (who even owned Bulmers from 1961-67), Murphys and Beamish were acting in a manner that was "anticompetitive but not illegal".
That still defines the sales tactics of the big three now, plus MolsonCoors; albeit Heineken appear to be much more aggressive in that manner than the others are and Diageo the least. Outside of an occasional concert I've not seen a Diageo-only or Diageo-with-one-single-other bar but I've been in plenty of Heineken only and MolsonCoors only bars; mostly with a solitary Guinness tap to satiate those drinkers and also claim its not just one brewery.
I suspect Diageo are the one most likely to potentially be done for abuse of a dominant position and hence can't be as aggressive, whereas the other two-and-a-bit big breweries can get away with whatever they want and point to Diageo's market share as cover.
60 years and nothing changes.
Had a sample of the the new Kinnkegar 'Brewers at Play' 33 today out in the Brewary.
Its another hazy IPA BUT...BUT its pleasingly bitter. great stuff.
Is Guinness a local producer for Dublin and Heineken for Cork for instance.
It was nice to see the food and drink on site and for the closing ceremony for the Tag Rugby World Cup in Limerick was from Treaty City and Wickham Way market.
So all an event organiser needs to do is make a side-arrangement with any eligible local/independent producer to ensure they won't ask to attend, and then they can keep their lucrative exclusivity deal with the headline multinational sponsor. Nothing will change for the consumer. That's before you even get into how to define a "local/independent" supplier in a way that works for the legislation's intent. This stuff is really hard to get right. There are loads of examples of unintended consequences in the history of licensing law.
Then the exclusivity option is offered?
I know it sucks and sadly it's not as easy as just "moving to a different venue" which I'm sure some people suggest when discussing it.
Unless you get lucky and are near a venue that cares as much as you your screwed. But restricting the right of a venue to sign these contracts is just silly.
The other side of it is that were independants allowed to set up stall, the cost of the pitch would be so high that making money might be extremely difficult!
Same as I suspect some of the smaller food suppliers struggle to cover the huge costs associated with doing business at festivals!
How would you guarantee it? What if there's no independent/local supplier willing to attend?
Fair play to him. I think there should be legislation brought in to guarantee a minimum (small) percentage of independent/local suppliers for major events/festivals.
Not the same thing at all! But, well, all of the Galway Bay Brewery bars in Dublin (I think) are selling Guinness; and The Gasworks sells Heineken... Meanwhile, my own local, asked for my usual Hope on my most recent visit (which always sold reasonably well there) to find nope, it's solely a Heineken/Diageo house now - I could get Lagunitas (Heineken) if I wanted a "craft" beer.
So yeah, fair play to Ballykilcavan, they've got many thousands worth of free publicity.
And as I mentioned, it's not just festivals, it's venues, too. I was involved in organising a major convention in Dublin a few years ago, several thousand attendees coming for a 5-day long event. We absolutely knew a good proportion of the attendees would want craft beer available (there's a large social element to this particular convention, people travel to it every year, there's a large intersection between the con subject and craft beer). It was a huge struggle to get the venue to agree, because of "supplier contracts"...
Having someone complain about the obvious certainly wouldn't full me with confidence about a place or have me running to it. But then I I don't believe in the idea of "no such thing as bad publicity"
I wonder how many craft breweries would sell Heineken in the same spirit of openness.
I didn't know this brewery existed or if I did I'd completely forgotten before this video, if I was going to EP I'd be heading into the shop he mentioned to buy cans of his beer, I'd say there's a few heads who will, for the cost of a video he's lost nothing and could gain quite a bit.
Doesn't seem stupid to me.
I think he knows the industry - look at the publicity he's got pointing out EP banging on about sustainability, while a multiple winner of sustainability awards from 2.5km away is locked out!
He knows exactly what he's doing. He's not new to any of this. The win isn't having a bar at EP, it's having a raft of new social media followers and an article in the Indo, for zero marketing outlay. You literally can't buy what Heineken and EP have given him; why not use it?
Early EPs had independent bars.
There could be both.
I wonder will Heineken allow a small Ballykilcaven stand to operate for the sake of PR.
I guess that underlines the importance of the exclusivity clause: people might not notice your company's name in the event publicity material, but if your product is the only one of its kind they can buy while there, then it's possibly worth doing. Their beer money would go somewhere else otherwise.
I've been to a couple of big beer festivals in Denmark where both Heineken and Carlsberg had huge flashy stands and new products being launched, to absolutely no interest from attendees. The Heineken bar was a handy place to stand when everywhere else was too crowded :)
