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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I've been teasing it. I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
This is a fantastic time to welcome in my friend
Chris Pattini from pub Culture Beercations and Chris, welcome in.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
How's it going, Emory?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hey, so great to see him. My man, just back
from Europe? Right, Yeah, I just got back.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Oh, supposed to be a week ago today, but it
was a week ago tomorrow. Got stuck in Minneapolis for
the night coming back from the Central European Beercation, which
was a new type of route. We did four days
in Lubiana, Slovenia, three days in Zagreb, Croatia, and four
nights in Budapest, Hungary during the Budapest Beer Week and
Budapest Beer Week beer festival.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah, sounds awesome.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
It was a great time. But all the trips are good.
I mean, we have a great time wherever we go,
whether it's the Netherlands or Central Europe, Germany or even Ireland.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, speaking of Ireland, let's go ahead and talk. I've
talked about some of the Irish trips that you had
and have this year, and the people can sign up
for and there's still availability that you can jump on
for the summer if you're wanting to go like as
soon as possible.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Still some decent airfare for that one in July and
September is even better airfare. But those Ireland routes are
a little bit more of the classic Ireland so you're
doing Dublin Galway around the Southern route. But this is
the new, brand new route. This is the Emerald Isles too,
if you will, the Northern Ireland bucation.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
And I am going on this trip in March of
next year.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
March twentieth through the thirty first.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, and you want to know something, I'm super pumped
for this because I have a history with Ireland, so
I'll get to that in a second. But the trip
is Ireland Northern Ireland across Tennish days.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
So it's another one of those like my standard eleven
nights twelve days. There is something brand new with this
trip I'm doing. In the past a lot of times
when you would come in early, you would just book
your own hotel. There is an optional add on where
you can do a day zero because this trip is
focusing mostly on the northern counties, so that's going to
be County Mayo, County, Sligo, County Donegal in the Republic
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of Ireland and then the County of Londonderry and Antrim
in North Island, UK, which is home of Londonderry and Belfast,
so we're gonna be looking at a different part. And
since there's not as much time in Dublin, there is
an add on where you can add one extra day
on the beginning in Dublin, which would give you a
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whirlwind Irish Celtic Knights, which does a dinner, traditional dancing
and music. And then the next morning before we officially
start the trip, you're gonna get to go visit the
Guinness Storehouse and do a lunch there, and then we
kick off the trip the first night in Ireland in Dublin,
where we're going to have a walking tour of the
city like I like to always do. After we have
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a welcome toast, because all good beercations start with a beer,
of course they do, and then we will have our
group welcome dinner. But then we're going to get out
of Dublin. We're going to do a couple crazy things.
So one of the only two things that are going
to continue from my previous Ireland trips is that part
of that first day, and then as we leave Dublin,
we are going to be stopping at Shawn's Bar. Shawn's
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Bar is the world's oldest bar. It's been around since
nine hundred eighty.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Nine hundred eighty, yeah, like as in like eleven hundred
years ago.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah. Wow, there's been a bar on this foundation ever since.
And we will have a Irish coffee master class and
you're going to learn how to make an amazing Irish
coffee in the bar.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Amazing.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah. Yeah. We did this with the group in March
and it was absolutely fantastic. In fact, we were the
first group ever to do the Irish Coffee master class
at the world Otis Bar. So, you know, kind of
cool to get to say that.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Okay, this is one of many things, and I don't
have enough time to get through every single awesome thing
that we're going to be doing on this trip. Next
March again, I'm going on a trip with Chris pub
Culture Bercations next March. It's gonna be Ireland, Northern Ireland,
and that information is on the website at Pubculturebeercations dot com.
But this is one thing about these trips that I
think people need to know. You walk in and you
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are recognized immediately by the people who work there.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Oh yeah, these guys already, I'm already emailing them and
they're like, your group was amazing, We can't wait to
welcome you back again.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I mean, it feels like you're an inside like you're
When I was in the Netherlands with you, we were
walking into random bars in Amsterdam and people were like Chris,
and then you know, you got these people behind you,
these tourists behind and you just felt like you're a
part of the family at that point. I mean, it
is a completely different vibe than when you're just going
by yourself. You really feel like you're getting some sort
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of inside access because of your involvement. How do you
best describe some of the really intricate things that we
get to do on these beercations that you wouldn't be
able to do otherwise by just traveling by yourself.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
So one of the things you get to do by
going on a beercation with me and with any of
my tour guides is that we have done the groundwork.
We've made those relationships so that when you go places,
there's often a tour available on Tuesday at one o'clock,
but we have a VIP tour on the day and
the time we want to go. We travel by private
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coach so that we can get where we want to
go on the times we're not at the mercy of
a train or a train schedule, which a lot of
times several other types of group tours will use those
alone along with For Ireland Mad shout out to our
bus driver Steven. Steven from Carneies of Cork Bus Company
is not just a bus driver, but he is a
certified tour guide in Ireland.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Amazing.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
One of the things we're going to do thanks to
Steven is we are going to actually have a copper
pounding project where we get to go and learn traditional
cop and you're gonna get take something like that home.
We're gonna visit Connamorrow, Marble Minds. We're going to stay
a night in an Irish castle hotel. Will be in Westport,
Ireland for two nights. That's the entertainment capital, if you will,
of County Mayo. Will be two nights in Sliego, we
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will be one night in Donegal Town. We'll do our
two nights in Dairy and our two nights in Belfast
to see a lot of those famous places people talk
about when they go into Northern Ireland. We will see
the Giant's Causeway. We'll see the Dark Hedges, which were
made famous by Game of Thrones, but it's been around
longer than the TV show ever was there. We're going
to see old castles. We're gonna I said, stay in
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a castle. We'll go to the Bush Mills Distillery. We'll
visit several breweries in the area. But we're also going
to get to see some amazing scenery, amazing views. We'll
be driving the northern part of the Wild Atlantic Way.
It just in general in March, we are on the
front side, just like we kind of were in the
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Netherlands of the big tourist push. Now it's right after
Saint Patrick's Day, but most of those people went to Dublin,
which you could go in a few days early and
spend St Patrick's Day in Dublin. But we're going to
be right after that crowd leaves, and then we're going
to the part of Ireland that isn't quite as much
where people would be doing that.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
You're not going to be inundated with a ton of
other tourists trying to do the same things that you
were going to be doing a great way to travel.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Chris knows what he's doing again.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Pubculturebeercations dot Com is the website and you can scroll
down to Spring twenty twenty five. It's called the emerald
Isle Beer Cation and the dates listed.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Mark's actually that's this Spring one.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
No worries, Oh yeah, my bad the day that's a date.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
They're actually going to say emerald Isle two, the Northern
Ireland beer Cation. Nice and it is on this it'll
be like page three. There you go, Okay, there, there
we go, no worries, and I'll tell you what emory.
Right now, we've got a couple of different things people
can do. They can sign up and if they want to,
if they want to take advantage of the early bird special,
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there's a window for that. What's going to save them
four hundred and fifty dollars off the trip. There's also
something new I've added where if they are somebody who's
dead set they want to go and they want a
really nice low price, they can pay in full and
I'll take an extra one hundred and fifty dollars off.
That's now six hundred dollars per person off the price
the trip and I'll tell you what I'm even going
to do on top of that. If they put Emory
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twenty twenty six at checkout the first sixteen people who
sign up, I'm going to give them an extra two
hundred dollars off. Oh man, So they're saving almost a
thousand dollars basically covering your airfare and savings right now
to go to Ireland with you next March, and with
thirty two other amazing beer loving Irish loving culture seeking
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cool people.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Amazing.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
So, like you said, this is up, it's live. I'm
going to share this on all my social media. If
you have questions about the trip and you're thinking, I'd
like to go to Northern Ireland, I'd like to see Dublin.
I'd like to go and hang out with Emory and
Chris and go for a couple of weeks up there
in March to Ireland. Just shoot me an email Emory
at kfab dot com. I can direct you to the
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important information. The information is all on pubculturebeercations dot com.
This is an absolutely incredible opportunity. I would love to
travel with you, and like Chris mentioned, he can save
you eight hundred dollars in early bird with paying it
in full upfront and then using Emory twenty twenty six
at checkout.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
The first sixteen people who sign up.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
All right, so the race is on ladies and gentlemen.
So this is going to be incredible. Chris. I can't
thank you enough for what you do with this. If
there's anything that people need to know or any easy
way for people to get a hold of you, is
the website. The easiest way too.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Great social media, So you can you can follow us
on Instagram, pub Culture of Beercations you can. You can
go to Facebook, and if you want to email me,
you can email Beercations at pubculture dot beer. Got a
kind of cool email there.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Dot beer.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Yeah, pub just go to beercations at pubculture dot beer.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
How cool is that? All right?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
So this is we're just now that you've officially heard
the official launch of me being a part of this trip,
and I am going to be trying to push to
fill this thing up with a ton of kfab listeners.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
When I first joined working with you in Kfab, it
was only a few months before we went to the Netherlands.
We knew that was going to be a hard pull
to get people. But we've announced the entire twenty twenty
sixth schedule. This is going all the way through next December,
so we've got the end all the rest of this
year with five more tours left, but we've got nineteen
different ones next year between me my other two guides,
Courtney and Jeremy. We've got multiple locations going to Ireland.
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We've got multiple trips going to the Czech Republic, including
one with one of your coworkers, Lucy, and there's even
some new other type routes like this Northern Ireland and
in October we actually have an Ireland trip that's going
to focus around Sloween, which is the Druid originations of Halloween.
So lots of fun, but really going with you in
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March is going to be an amazing time because these
people are going to get to see parts of Ireland
that most tour groups don't. This is not the area
where you get a lot of tours.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Absolutely love it, once in a lifetime opportunity exploring the
world one pint at a time. He grazlyy Chris Pattini,
Pubculturebeercations dot Com. Chris as always man really appreciate it.
Can't wait to get people on this trip solanja