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"Louis 1000":17vlxo55 wrote: just think it could be organised slightly better to allow for such large crowds.[/quote:17vlxo55]I'm not sure it can, without incurring major expense, ie paid bar staff. How would you do it?

"TheBeerNut":2xsuhdt2 wrote:

"Louis 1000":2xsuhdt2 wrote: just think it could be organised slightly better to allow for such large crowds.[/quote:2xsuhdt2]I'm not sure it can, without incurring major expense, ie paid bar staff. How would you do it?[/quote:2xsuhdt2]

Any of the breweries could have paid staff and walked away with thousands in additional profits such was the demand. Carlow, Whitewater and Porterhouse could have set up seperate stands selling bottles.

However, the big variable in attendance is the weather. A huge number of people were there last year because it was one of the warmest weekends of the year.

"Diablo":2hddindw wrote: Any of the breweries could have paid staff and walked away with thousands in additional profits such was the demand.[/quote:2hddindw]But that's the breweries, not the organisers.

"Diablo":2hddindw wrote: Carlow, Whitewater and Porterhouse could have set up seperate stands selling bottles.[/quote:2hddindw]You'd still have the same number of people queuing, only now you're increasing the number of customers who, against the rules of the festival, are buying bottles to drink outside. I wouldn't permit that if I were organising it. If I were [i:2hddindw]insuring[/i:2hddindw] it I'd be banning bottle sales altogether, because the system didn't work last year and people just opened bottles outside to drink them.