Ok, this blog business is bloody hard work.  And as blog-people go, RMTTB is pretty lazy.  But, while an entire month has passed since our first (and last…) post, we haven’t been completely idle.  For instance, we managed to fit in several trips to the Craft Beer & Cider Festival at the RDS.  All in the name of research.

There aren’t enough superlatives in the English language to describe how much we enjoyed this year’s event.  Fantastically friendly atmosphere, great range of food and beer and a wonderfully diverse visitor demographic.  The organisers had also  taken on board the many pleas for smaller glasses.  Kudos.  (I wonder if we could get them down to 0.2 for next year??)

Conscientious to the last, RMTTB slugged our way through the entire offering and looks forward to revisiting our favourites here on the blackboard in the near future.  We gave our vote for the festival beer to the Galway Hooker Coffee Porter.

We’ve also been planning.  Sometimes we try new recipes and they just don’t work out.  Or else the food is amazing but the beer we’ve chosen doesn’t quite work.  In which case, it’s back to the blackboard until we get it right…  If something isn’t great we don’t write about it.  We’re only interested in writing about great beer and the food that makes it taste even better.  Bear with us if we’re offline for a while.

So.  Coming up in the next few weeks we’ll be asking:  “What goes well with Mexican food?”  “Beeramisu?  Really??” and “Can we beat Germany at their own game??”

We’re also planning a blow out harvest meal to showcase the best of Irish saison beers in time for Hallowe’en.

Let the tasting commence…