{"id":109681,"date":"2015-08-17T10:32:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T09:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=109681"},"modified":"2024-06-24T09:38:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T08:38:04","slug":"focus-on-hillstown-brewery-beer-ale-tasting-the-randalstown-rfc-15s-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/focus-on-hillstown-brewery-beer-ale-tasting-the-randalstown-rfc-15s-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus On Hillstown Brewery Beer &#038; Ale Tasting @ the Randalstown RFC 15s Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a busy day at Neillsbrook on Satuday opening with the annual 15-a-side tournament and finishing up with a Beer and Ale tasting hosted by the local Hillstown Brewery&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..\u00a0Following on from the success of the tournament, Chairman Adie Johnston welcomed everyone in the clubhouse for the Beer &amp; Ale Tasting evening.\u00a0 He had a small bit of business,\u00a0 marking last season\u2019s success,\u00a0 to attend to as he presented 2<sup>nd<\/sup> XV captain Sammy Hyndman with the Ulster Branch League Winners Plaque.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the eagerly awaiting beer tasting as\u00a0 Hillstown Brewery arrived with their prizewinning craft beers to give the by now very thirsty patrons in Randalstown an insight into something a little bit different.\u00a0 Hillstown of course are a very locally based company, situation between Randalstown and Ahoghill,\u00a0 and are already well known for their high quality beef products and the on site restaurant.\u00a0\u00a0 4 beer\/ale types were sampled and the favourite seemed to be the \u2018Spitting Lama\u2019.\u00a0 It was interesting to hear the story behind the production of these craft beers, and a very different experience for many to taste them.<\/p>\n<p>Hillstown can be found on the usual media \u2013 facebook, twitter and check out www.hillstownbrewery.com for yourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Adie Johnston(left), event organiser John curry (3<sup>rd<\/sup> from left) with the guys from Hillstown Brewery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a busy day at Neillsbrook on Satuday opening with the annual 15-a-side tournament and finishing up with a Beer and Ale tasting hosted by the local Hillstown Brewery&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..\u00a0Following on from the success of the tournament, Chairman Adie Johnston welcomed everyone in the clubhouse for the Beer &amp; Ale Tasting evening.\u00a0 He had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,677],"tags":[16774,11528,14869,17155,17254,13268],"class_list":["post-109681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clubs","category-randalstown","tag-ale","tag-beer","tag-brewery","tag-hillstown","tag-randalstown","tag-tasting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683687,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109681\/revisions\/683687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}