New Belfast beer fest!

Thought I would post in here in case anyone is interested.
There is a new beer festival in Belfast, the ABV Beer Festival to be precise. It is running from the 22–23 May 2015 in the fairly awesome Titanic Drawing Offices.
A lot of great breweries will be in attendance mostly from UK and Ireland, but with some coming from further afield like To ol from Denmark. Gutted I won't be able to attend myself as I will be in Belgium (every cloud and all that).

More information can be found at the link below.
http://www.abvfest.com/

 

They already have some plans for next year so all good, especially for me as I will make sure I am free this time.

 

Yeah, think they are going for the IndyMan Beer Con type festival which has similar prices. So you will get a lot of one off beers and collaborations just for the festival, more out there beers and most will be served by the brewer if not someone from the brewery so you can ask questions. Having been to the last 3 Belfast Beer Festivals in Belfast Ulster Hall it was really the same type of fair, same beers and nothing wildly exciting, so hoping this is different and if so would be willing to pay the price. mdagnew you can let me know if it is

 

The festival is sold out now unfortunately
As for pubs check out The Garrick as it stocks a fair range of local beers. Also The Sunflower Pub, The Hudson and The Woodworkers all do local output and a variety of different beers outside of the normal generic beers like Guinness.
If you are coming this far visit The Crown, sort of must do tourist thing, really old and beautiful pub with various cask beers on tap.
As for the Eurovision they may put it on screens in some pubs, but it should be mostly business as usual.
Hope you enjoy your stay here.