Beer Festivals in 2024 - stick them in here!

bobbysands81

Will 2024 be the year of the come back for beer festivals?

I’ve heard a rumour that Rascals are doing one. Any details?

Has anyone heard if there are any beer festivals planned for the year? Would love to drop in to a few especially like the ones held in the Convention Centre and the RDS.

BeerNut

Nothing like that anymore.

Sullivan's in Kilkenny is having a festival at their taproom. 17-18 May.

Franciscan Well is likely to be on over Easter weekend. I'm sure Rascals will be having one of theirs over a summer weekend. And I'm hoping the Mullingar Wild Beer Festival will be back in late spring.

the beer revolu

Tour de Geuze in May.

https://horal.be/en/events/toer-de-geuze/

bobbysands81

Here’s details of the Rascals beer festival.

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/happy-days-beer-food-festival-2024-tickets-634126027017?aff=oddtdtcreator

Hodors Appletart

I heard a mad rumour in January that someone was looking into a revival of the RDS type festival, which was a good showcase of the Irish craft scene, with a couple of international guests on the bill too.

Fidelity was mostly international when it ran, and I was udner the impression that they were going to an "every second year" timeframe, which would mean summer 2025 would be on the cards, but would probably be announced by now, and I heard the venue wasn't open to it either.

irish_goat

White Hag will be on again in August and there'll most likely be Portrush in October.

bobbysands81

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121818173#Comment_121818173

I had heard too that Fidelity were going to every 2 years… but not sure where I heard it.

That would mean that their Beer Festival would be back this year as they last ran it in 2022.

Hodors Appletart

yeah sorry, I meant 2024

Lewis_Benson

Pity the Doolin beer festival isnt on anymore....

BeerNut

Confirmation that Franciscan Well is on. Good Friday and Easter Saturday (though 9 White Deer has posted Saturday and Sunday to their Facebook). From 1pm, admission free. Unconfirmed brewery list of Third Barrel, Rising SONS, Wicklow Wolf, West Cork, Lineman, Black's, Lough Gill and Outer Place. Trouble and 9 White Deer confirmed. Original 7 don't have a choice.

BeerNut

Mullingar Wild Beer Festival at Smiddy's Bar is confirmed for 29th June 2024.

emo72

That day in Weston airport was great. I wish they'd do it again.

bobbysands81

Rascals have one on in just a few weeks.

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/happy-days-beer-food-festival-2024-tickets-634126027017?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Zymurgist

Are the white hag running their festival this year? I don’t see anything on their website or on their profile on Eventbrite about it.

BeerNut

Last year's announcement was on 28th April, so it should be soon. I don't see any reason they wouldn't be doing it again. It's the brewery's 10th birthday.

adaminho

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https://twitter.com/mothermacspub/status/1789671719935889843?t=JXg_O-ewSrWXhkFdvkEviQ&s=19

if anyone is around Limerick Wednesday you can win the first tickets to Hagstravaganza.

irish_goat

Portrush confirmed for 11th and 12th October.

irish_goat

Hagstravaganza tickets now out. https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/hagstravaganza-10-tickets-904400154207?aff=oddtdtcreator

Fairly comprehensive reply emailed out too in response to the feedback from last year's event.

BeerNut

Hearing that the RDS festival guys are planning on bringing it back this year. 13-15 September.

Edit: Just the Friday and Saturday, 13th and 14th.

BeerNut

Another date to save: 31st August for the Midlands Craft Beer Festival at Don's Bar in Moate.

BeerNut

RDS confirmed for 13/14 September.

bobbysands81

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122254048#Comment_122254048

was just coming on to post, great news.

NetworkOrange

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122254048#Comment_122254048

I cant see anything online about this at all, apart from this comment and a tweet from CraftCentral.ie

irish_goat

Their Twitter page is a bit quiet but they've made a graphic at least.

Annoyingly I'm in Dublin the weekend before so not sure I'll be arsed with a 2nd weekend in a row, but probably will end up coming down as they were always good events.

BeerNut

The graphic was sent with a "for Instagram" so I guess that's where you'll see the details as they come out. But I'll post stuff here too since apparently I'm on Bruce's mailing list and I don't have an Instagram account.

BeerNut

Some more preliminary detail from the organiser:

19 Irish brewers confirmed – all bringing a festival beer.

6 internationals: Vault City, Brewski, Zichovec, Baxbier, Mad Scientist, Moersleutel coming so far.

NetworkOrange

19 out of approx 79 is a substantial number of Irish craft breweries for a craft beer festival. I assume more will join as its announced. So its looking very promising

TheCosmicFrog

From White Hag just now, unfortunately:

Hello,

We hope you are keeping well!

We are contacting you today as we have an update regarding Hagstravaganza for you guys as you have purchased tickets to this year's event.

We have encountered an event licensing issue that causes a huge amount of uncertainty over our ability to run our birthday party in the same format as we have in past years.

This ultimately means we cannot begin importing beers from around the world over the coming weeks, therefore we cannot proceed with the international aspect of the festival which of course is the backbone of Hagstravaganza.

We are continuing to pursue an event licence in the hope that we can run a smaller more local event on the same date, to celebrate our birthday with those breweries who are close to us here in Ireland. We will honour all current tickets for that event on the same date, and will share the details on what that will look like in the coming days.

What does it mean for ticket holders?

If you have bought a ticket already, you can sit tight and we'll update you with our plans by the end of the week. If you want a refund, that will be no problem and we'll be processing those by this coming weekend. If you want to come to our birthday event regardless, we hope to have tickets for sale again once we clarify a few issues, ideally by next week.

We appreciate your patience and support while we work through this.

Bob & The White Hag Team

Zymurgist

Got the same earlier. Wonder what the license issue is, seems odd they could have international brewers/beers every other year but not this time.

I’ll still be attending as it’ll be a good day out regardless, but it’s a real shame for the team organising and the attendees

irish_goat

I'm sure the White Hag guys are gutted. I'll wait and see what the new plans are before committing to going, I think.

Also didn't realise I had committed to Mullingar next week, anyone else heading?

BeerNut

I'll be in Mullingar, assuming I can get through the Swifty throng at Connolly Station.