Lovers of burgers rejoice because Ireland's first national burger festival is on the way.

BurgerFest 2018 will be taking place from January 22nd - 29th 2018 in venues across the country. 

The festival is designed to bring food lovers to venues nationwide and will feature a number of burger-related events, such as tastings and demos.   

Ernest Cantillon, Co-Founder of Festival Crew to tell him about both the event and the company behind it.

Festival Crew has an experienced and creative team which have managed a number of large scale food and drinks festivals over the past seven years, including Oktoberfest Beag, FEAST and Cork Food Festival, each attracting up to 28,000 visitors.

Ernest also spoke about his other business, Kinsale Gin which recently won in its category at the World Gin awards.

Last week Kinsale Gin won its category at the World Gin awards. When they announced us as best in Ireland we nearly fainted! In February we will be representing Ireland and competing for the title of Best London Dry Gin in the World! WOW! Wish us luck ! pic.twitter.com/yBYniq6JFN

— Kinsale Gin (@KinsaleGin) January 14, 2018

Kinsale Gin will also be taking part in another drinks festival called High Spirits, which is coming up in April.

For more information about the Burger Festival and other events listen back to the podcast and check out their website: https://www.thefestivalcrew.com/