The festival will be Ireland's largest craft beer festival with oer 50 breweries from around the world paired with 15 of Ireland's finest artisan food producers. Tickets are now on sale for €15 each on www.entertainment.ie and each ticket includes 4 free drinks! You can learn all about food and beer pairings at The Pair and Taste Pavilion where experts will demonstrate how to effectively pair a beer or spirit with various foods.
In addition to beer and food, there's plenty of entertainment lined up, including live music from Paddy Casey (Friday 7th), a live screening of Ireland's Six Nations match against Wales (Saturday 8th) plus a Nations Rugby Beer Grand where beers from Ireland and Wales will go head to head.
More information about the event is available at www.alltechbrewsandfood.com or follow them on Twitter @Alltechbrews.
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Where will the 2014 Alltech International Craft Brews and Food Fair take place?
The competition will close at 8pm on Wednesday, February 5th. The winner will be notified and their name will be placed on the guest list at the event. Good luck!
The list of confirmed attendees (so far) includes:
Breweries
- Trouble Brewing (Ireland)
- Mountain Man Brewing (Ireland)
- Rascals Brewing (Ireland)
- Blacks of Kinsale (Ireland)
- N17 (Ireland)
- Kinnegar (Ireland)
- Redwell (UK)
- Independent Brewing (Ireland)
- Bru Brewery (Ireland)
- Birra e Blues (Spain)
- Carlow Brewing Company (Ireland)
- Rye River Brewery (Ireland)
- Kentucky Beers (US)
- White Gypsy (Ireland)
- Independent Craft Brewers of Ireland (Ireland)
- Galway Hooker (Ireland)
- Hardknott (UK)
- Espigna (Ireland)
- Cosibo Beer (Denmark)
Hunters (UK) - Windsor and Eton Brewery (UK)
- Elgoods (UK)
- Hilden (Ireland)
- Dingle Distillery/Porterhouse (Ireland)
- Irish Whiskey Museum (Ireland)
- Franciscan Well (Ireland)
- Black Paw (UK)
- Stone Barrel (Ireland)
- Grand Cru (Ireland)
- Molta Birra (Spain)
- Welsh Beer Alliance (Group) (Wales)
Artisan Food Producers
- Ballymaloe Relish
- Bretzel Bakery
- Brodericks
- Burren Smokehouse
- Carrigaline Cheese
- Cashel Blue
- Connemara Pies
- De Mad Food Company
- Ed Hick Butchers
- Gilligan's Meats
- Keogh's Crisps
- Kinsale Gourmet
- Little Milk Company
- Man of Aran Fudge
- Seymours Biscuits
- Sheridan's Cheese
- Wright's of Howth