Supporting craft breweries

TaurenDruid · 13-05-2022 12:03pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119055849#Comment_119055849

So beers that nobody else wanted and that are nearly stale? Score! 🤣

Brock Turnpike · 13-05-2022 2:18pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119056338#Comment_119056338

Bargain Alert!!

13-05-2022 2:44pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119055849#Comment_119055849

Can't see it on the site.....gone already?

Edit: Found it....gone is right :-(

Macy0161 · 13-05-2022 3:32pm

I dare say I've much older in my stash, but whilst they may not be peak condition I've had more dodgy bottles and cans out fresh stuff than I have out of bargain bins!

Hotblack Desiato · 13-05-2022 3:43pm

What's much worse imho than the stuff being a bit short-dated (it's hardly going to hang around for 8 weeks in my house...) is not being able to pick out what you want, which is just ridiculous.

Brock Turnpike · 17-05-2022 12:24pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119055849#Comment_119055849

For anyone interested...

Galway Bay Comet on Fire DIPA x2

Wide Street Mill Pils x2

Porterhouse Renegade NEIPA x2

Dead Centre Dead Pixels x2

Rascals Yankee White IPA x2

Wicklow Brewery Coola Boola DDH Session IPA x2

Dead Pixels is the only one I've had before so at least majority will be new beers for me to try. Would have preferred 12 different beers but ho hum

hynesie08 · 17-05-2022 12:28pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119074804#Comment_119074804

Not a terrible deal for a score.

17-05-2022 1:09pm

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That's a lot better than I was expecting - wish I'd pounced.

Effects · 27-05-2022 1:59pm

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polaris68 · 27-05-2022 5:39pm

Down at the BeerFest in the Franciscan Well in Cork which is running today and tomorrow.

Some new brews pouring at this. Beer list on their Facebook

Hotblack Desiato · 27-05-2022 7:04pm

Was in Stephen St News today for the first time since the Before Times...

Much better selection than I remember (not that it was bad then). No 4 for €10 of course, but prices are decent.

Beers new to me are Metalman Absolute Magnitude and Bru Cave 'n' Castle Export Stout

TaurenDruid · 30-05-2022 6:15pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119123337#Comment_119123337

Metalman? Is that new stock? I saw their "It's been great, but..." announcement a few months back.

Hotblack Desiato · 30-05-2022 7:01pm

Presumably. Cans with old branding printed on them, labels with new branding stuck on

BeerNut · 31-05-2022 9:48am

It wouldn't be new stock. Metalman is gone.

Pen Rua · 31-05-2022 10:49am

Survived my first beer festival, being the Fran Well one in Cork on the weekend just gone.

I thought it was an enjoyable event, and a strong line up of breweries were present.

Some serious value for the tokens could be obtained if you hit up the right taps. One token got me a glass of The Devil's Half Acre from Porterhouse (11% which was aged - dunno the retail price of the bottle), for example. Of course it balances out if you take a sensible approach with some normal ABVs in there. Whiplash were looking for two tokens (€6.50-ish) for a glass of their 9% TIPA which I thought was saucy enough, particularly when Lough Gill & Galway Bay Brewery seemed to be doing 1/3 pints in return for one token for their higher ABV beers.

Saw posters for Original 7 around the bar, but they didn't have anything out in time for the beer festival which I thought was a big miss. I was told it's the brewery out the back being used for new beers by the original Fran Well owner(s).

Hotblack Desiato · 31-05-2022 10:52am

I actually fished a can out of the green bin, BB 10/2022 so yes unfortunately you're both right 😥

youcancallmeal · 24-06-2022 2:39pm

I guess White Hag aren't doing a Hagstravaganza box this year now that the real thing will be fully open. Last years box was a little disappointing compared to the 2020 box but I probably still would've got it if they did it this year

Hotblack Desiato · 24-06-2022 3:26pm

Been disappointed with the last couple of WH Clann boxes, nearly all core range. Need more guest and non-core beers. Definite drop-off on that since the start of the year.

Citizen Six · 29-06-2022 3:57pm

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I'b be afraid to buy a box off them. Too high a risk of them using it as a way to shift on some of their muck beers. I'd rather just buy the beers I want from them.

Still haven't make up my mind about Hagstravaganza this year, but had an amazing time at the last one.

L1011 · 29-06-2022 4:02pm

Hotel last year was only affordable by raiding my loyalty points piggybank - and was miles away - so I'm having to consider whether the train up and down option works. Train back a bit tiddliy vs train back the next morning with a banging hangover (hotel left half a bottle of red in the room which I decided to knock back while watching TV - I was fine leaving the event, promise!) shouldn't be that difficult a choice.

Citizen Six · 29-06-2022 4:32pm

I got a lift there and back last time, as my family have a place 30km away, and someone didn't mind driving me. Might have to look into some kind of taxi this year, with a few mates.

No way could I have dealt with a train back on the same evening!

BeerNut · 29-06-2022 7:31pm

I always get the train up and back, so it does work. Whether it works for you depends on what you want out of the day.

Citizen Six · 29-06-2022 10:01pm

I want to stay in the west in Dublin I think, and not come back to Dublin for the inevitable hangover the next day.

interlocked · 29-06-2022 11:15pm

I don't really understand what they're doing. They have some of their advertising branding it as a 2 day event but it's only one. 80 beers for one day is total overkill. They definitely need to do it as a 2 day job. Best of luck to them, I've my ticket bought. If I get through 40, though, in the time allotted I'll be doing well.