Irish Craft Beer and Cider Festival

Industries Hall looks a lot nicer when it's not set up for insurance exams (shudder!!) 

So you collect your glass and wrist band on the way in. Paid €2 to upgrade to the goblet glass. 

Didn't notice the route map so we basically "winged" it :-) 

Great choice of beers and ciders with a couple of distillers thrown in!!

Was good to see so many of the brewers there representing some very fine drinks indeed. 

I did try some beers such as Vincent van Coff by Mountain Man and the Rascals / 250 square coffee beer...

My favourites had to be the special ciders I tried from Toby's (saddle sore scrumpy) and Macivors (festival special) 

The honey cider from Doyles was a lovely way to start the journey. 

Food wise I chose sweet potato fries from Dave's woodfire pizza co (with rosemary & sea salt), thai curry from Bitchin kitchen and then some cookies from the Dublin Cookie Co. Sean went with the fish and chips from Say Fish. 

We tried the salt caramel, chocolate and beer and apple cider cookies. They were really good so we got a box of cookies to bring home! 

We were lucky that we went Saturday afternoon when it wasn't that crowded but the heat in the hall can get unpleasant!! We also managed to get a seat outside in the tent to eat our food and enjoy some tunes. 

My only issues were the lack of seating inside and the greenhouse effect inside the hall.