Beer Festivals in 2024 - stick them in here!

bobbysands81 · 23-02-2024 7:08pm #1

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 · 23-02-2024 10:54pm

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 · 24-02-2024 11:18am

Tour de Geuze in May.

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

bobbysands81 · 24-02-2024 7:54pm

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 · 26-02-2024 9:07am

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 · 26-02-2024 10:54am

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

bobbysands81 · 28-02-2024 5:00pm

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 · 29-02-2024 9:16am

yeah sorry, I meant 2024

Lewis_Benson · 04-03-2024 10:11am

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

BeerNut · 14-03-2024 4:15pm

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 · 16-03-2024 12:47pm

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

emo72 · 16-03-2024 12:49pm

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

bobbysands81 · 11-04-2024 2:02am

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 · 01-05-2024 9:07pm

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 · 01-05-2024 9:55pm

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 · 12-05-2024 4:26pm

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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 · 12-05-2024 4:41pm

Portrush confirmed for 11th and 12th October.

irish_goat · 13-05-2024 7:41am

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 · 14-05-2024 8:25pm

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 · 15-05-2024 8:55pm

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

BeerNut · 13-06-2024 11:30am

RDS confirmed for 13/14 September.

bobbysands81 · 13-06-2024 12:01pm

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

was just coming on to post, great news.

NetworkOrange · 13-06-2024 4:37pm

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 · 13-06-2024 4:50pm

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 · 13-06-2024 7:00pm

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 · 14-06-2024 9:14am

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 · 14-06-2024 11:38am

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 · 18-06-2024 6:28pm

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 · 18-06-2024 7:34pm

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 · 19-06-2024 10:30am

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 · 19-06-2024 12:15pm

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

wexdevil · 26-06-2024 1:03pm

I see the tickets for the RDS one are up on eventbrite.

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/dublin-beer-festival-tickets-927777917727

BeerNut · 26-06-2024 4:23pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122305987#Comment_122305987

Beoir has a special offer for current members.

(you need to already be a member to get it; you can't sign up now for it)

Hodors Appletart · 27-06-2024 12:59pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122306924#Comment_122306924

Thanks for letting us know, I'd bought a ticket but I've asked for a refund.

BeerNut · 27-06-2024 1:03pm

The tickets don't seem to have names on them so I'm guessing they're easily transferable.

yaeke · 05-07-2024 9:06am

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

irish_goat · 23-07-2024 4:50pm

Lineman announced as the first Hagstravanganza guest brewery. Given it's in just over 2 weeks time they're cutting it fine with releasing the lineup…

BeerNut · 23-07-2024 8:17pm

I think once the international beer order didn't happen, they're winging it. You'll get what shows up on the day.

irish_goat · 24-07-2024 8:43am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122417769#Comment_122417769

Yeah, it's a long and expensive trip for me just to drink pints of Little Fawn all night just.

Hotblack Desiato · 24-07-2024 11:22am

Would wonder wth happened. Had they overlooked a licensing requirement all this time, or something?

BeerNut · 24-07-2024 1:01pm

Complete guess, but I'd say there was some sort of delay with the event licensing, or maybe the usual supplier of the temporary beer licence pulled out, and they missed the deadline by which the international beer order had to be placed to ensure the beer arrived on time.

DelmarODonnell · 26-07-2024 9:14am

Bob from White Hag posted last night that they have the licence and are full steam ahead for Hagstravaganza.

BeerNut · 26-07-2024 10:31am

There'll be beer from a few of the regular Americans, though WeldWerks of Colorado is a new one on me.

Hotblack Desiato · 26-07-2024 10:52am

Good news, I'll raise an ice cold Mahou or two on the day in solidarity 😉

Zymurgist · 03-08-2024 9:12pm

Hagstravagnza appears to be ~~sold out~~! still on sale.

Eventbrite had the event listed as sold out for a while earlier but tickets are back up now 🤷‍♂️

ClashCityRocker · 09-08-2024 3:39pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122143002#Comment_122143002

This year's will be the final edition

https://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/2024/08/08/midlands-craft-beer-festival-to-take-place-for-last-time-later-this-month/

BeerNut · 13-08-2024 11:33am

CAMRA Northern Ireland are bringing their Belfast Real Ale Festival back this year. 7-9 November. Venue to be announced.

irish_goat · 05-09-2024 10:35am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122497816#Comment_122497816

Venue announced, Banana Block (next door to Boundary). Tickets are a very reasonable £4 for non-CAMRA members. I'll be there Saturday anyway.

https://t.co/CBaOv3DxeI

JoeLapira · 12-09-2024 9:10pm

Looking forward to the Dublin Beer Fest over the weekend, gonna be difficult to try all the beers though 😂

youcancallmeal · 13-09-2024 8:54am

Can't get there until around 5pm Sat, hope it's not like previous years where most of the interesting specials are gone by then 🙈

If anyone going today can you let us know if it's indoors or outdoors? Looks like from their socials it's going to be outdoors this time

Macy0161 · 13-09-2024 11:38am

Had assumed indoors, so yes, if someone can let us know!

Beer Festivals in 2024 - stick them in here!

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