Hope everyone has been enjoying the last long weekend of the year! I know I have. On returning home to Kildare from visiting friends in Wexford yesterday, we decided to drop by the Savour Kilkenny food festival. This was my first time attending and I think I'll have to book myself a night in Kilkenny next year for this. There was such a great atmosphere there with musicians playing and a huge crowd flocking around the plethora of food stalls. But I'll be honest I was there for the beer. So after a quick float around the stalls and a tasty wood fired pizza for lunch, I was off to the O Hara's beer tent.
First up I visited 12 Acres and had a pint of their delicious pale ale. They also had their new Golden Harvest pale ale available in bottles for take away. This is their seasonal beer for Aldi, available nationwide while stocks last.
Next I was off for a chat with Ger Costello of Costello's brewery and a pint of his red ale. He's was telling me the brewery is almost up and running and should be brewing away in the next month or two. Also we can expect some new brews early next year, looking forward to that.
After this I visited the good folks at metalman for some cans to take home with me. They had a really great offer of 5 cans and a glass for 15euro. Also had a raspberry chilli sour in cans but had problem with labelling so couldn't sell this. I was kindly given one though so made off with 6 cans and a glass for 15 euro! Bargain! That in itself was worth stopping off in Kilkenny for 😊
Was time for one quick pint of stout from O Hara's before heading home and a quick pose for a photo to enter their competition for International Stout Day. Check out their facebook or twitter to enter, amazing prize, will be well worth it! My attempt is below.
So that was yesterday, great fun! Today I had planned to bottle some home brew I'd had sitting in the fermenter a while but I tasted it and it was off! Damn. Anyway now I'm enjoying a can of Metalman's super refreshing and light ginger blonde ale. Blondes can be boring but the ginger here gives it a little zing. I'll report back on the raspberry chilli sour when I've tried it but for now I'm happy finishing the weekend with this enjoyable blonde ale.
Cheers - The Beer Hopster 🍻
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