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just to add to members knowledge,


The Franscian Well holds two beer festivals every year, one at Easter and the other at the October bank holiday weekend ( jazz weekend) the october one is called the october fest as the name suggest features German and Beligan beer.

But the Easter feast should interest menbers more, because it features most of the Irish micro breweries the following were there last year

Hilden,College Green,Carlow,kinsale,Porterhouse,Mssr MacGuire and Sean for you one to add to the list The U.C.C Pilot research brewery which the festival is the only chance you will get to tastle their beer.


The Well is always packed out for the festivals, but if you want to do most of the Irish Microbreweries with out travelling the country and taking weeks if you are ambitous or years in most cases, you will be able to sample most of the Irish Microbreweries Beer in one go.


P.S The Biddy Early Brewery has not been represented for the last couple of years which is a shame.

This year's Easter Festival will be on the first Saturday of April.
I will leave it to our resident Corkonian to fill in the details.

I plan on going to Cork for this on Saturday 7th, in the afternoon.
Rebel, I am assuming you will be going too. I know a lot of others are based in Dublin, but it would be great if a few more could make it. There are still six weeks to go, so plenty of time to get organised!

I hope to make it down for this too, fingers crossed.

I'll definitely be considering going down. All depends on work and t'other half.

Hold on... That's Easter weekend then isn't it? The 7th is the first Saturday in April, which is a day before Easter Sunday. Might be difficult for me in that case... Have guests coming for Easter week <!-- s:( --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_sad.gif" alt="" title="Sad" /><!-- s:( -->

I'm heading along too. I thought I would miss it but two of my friends say they are available to go now. Can't wait to try some of their stout again.

I've added this to the calendar, but as they haven't updated their own website there's sod all information about this year I can include.

If someone feels like putting the October on ein, please do <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D --> It'll be a good test of how user-friendly the calendar is!