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"emmetg":2v7awwyx wrote: i think this is exactly the sort of thing that beoir could use to hilight craft beer in ireland[/quote:2v7awwyx]I can think of better ways to dispose of five grand in the cause of craft beer than a four-day pitch at Taste. Not that Beoir [i:2v7awwyx]has[/i:2v7awwyx] five grand or anything.

I do think it's great that the breweries are getting more and more involved with it, though. It's good for beer -- and better I'm sure than the Taste Beck's With Marc Stroobandt thing that's happening.

perhaps not as a stall by itself but getting a bunch of microbrewies together to sell beer at a stll advertisng beoir was more of the line of taught i was going along.this way a microbrewer could sell a few casks/kegs to a diverse market without having to pay the full E5,000 fee and people like me could try a more diverse range of great beers.

im just a chef not any sort of marketing person and dont pretned to know the finicial workings of beoir.

anyhoo seems there will be a great slection anyway so its all groovy <!-- s8) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_cool.gif" alt="" title="Cool" /><!-- s8) -->

well a intresting day out was had. plenty of free food samples and loads of restraunts selling there wares, everything from steak,chips and bearnese to oysters to strawberies and choclate.
the beer was great there was a stall selling all the famous europien btls and irish micros the potorhouse selling bottles.
my first port of call was trouble brewing unfortunitly it was during a MASSIVE thundery hail and rain downpour that lasted 5 min. the fellow behind the bar was consiiring pulling the bar back a couple of foot to allow potential coustmers to gain some shelter from there marquee. i went for the ale and apart from it being partially waterd down from the rain it was very nice.

my second port of call was messers where thankfully it had stopped raining. here i beat the crowd and got a chance to sample two of there specials one was a light ale and the other was a very dark ale that wasent as warming as it looked but still very tasty so i got myself a pint. still i have my preference for there bock.

finally i called into o haras for a pint of there red ale the best of the lot in my opinion.

at this point the kids and the pregnent wife had seen enough so we decided to head home.

overall it was a good day. i have been to this festival three years on the trot and the addition of more craft beers is a real improvement. unfortunitly the occurance of hailstones and rain in june took away from it but there were pleanty of places to shealter.